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Tutorial: Creating RFQs
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Your national hardware group has decided to include expansion onto the Internet as part of its strategic plan to expand its customer base. WebSphere Commerce will be the basis for this endeavor. You will be using advanced B2B starter store (B2BAdvancedStore) to create a pilot version of the online store to serve as the basis for the operational store.
Learning objectives
The RFQ trading mechanism is inoperative unless explicitly enabled by the site administrator. Many of these tasks may have been completed by the IT staff. Descriptions are provided to give you an overview of the entire process. The organization type and the role of the user responsible for the task is shown (organization: role) in parentheses.
Time required
Once you have completed the following prerequisites, you can proceed with the RFQ tutorial:
Prerequisites
Make RFQs functional requires several preparatory steps:
- Enable the RFQ trading mechanism (seller: site administrator)
- Enable RFQ notification messaging (seller: site administrator)
- Create users with the Seller role
- Deciding if response approval is to be functional (seller: site administrator)
- Ensure that WebSphere Commerce Payments has been set up
Lessons in this tutorial
Create a new RFQ request (buyer: buyer (buy-side))
This section refers to creating a new RFQ request.- Submit and viewing a new RFQ request (buyer)
This section explains how to transmit a request to a seller. - Create a new response to an RFQ request (seller)
This section explains how to create a new response to an RFQ request. - Submit and viewing a new RFQ response (seller)
This section refers to submitting a response to the buyer. - Close an RFQ request (buyer)
This section refers to closing an RFQ request. - Evaluate responses (buyer: buyer (buy-side))
This section refers to reviewing responses. - Select an RFQ winner (buyer)
This section refers to how an RFQ winner can be selected. - Complete an RFQ request (buyer)
This section explains how to complete an RFQ.