Hi all:
These days, with the high competence in markets results quite common require open pricelist or open RFQ to suppliers, where all the cost are showed, not only in raw materials but also in operations (add-value), margin, labour cost, etc.
This transparency results key in the long-term relathionships needed with suppliers to sucess nowadays.
Normally the OpenRFQ follows a customer's format, the file may be a Excel or pdf file. Let's imagine for a while the RFQ for a cable, with two connectors on the sides. The supplier needs to take the cable first (made off Copper and protected with plastic), cut, and assemble two connectors, then pack up, then ship out.
To facilitate the situation, let's say all the concepts have a fixed price over the year, except copper, which varies following Copper international market monthly.
There is a place in SAP, where we can introduce all these partial costs in SAP, instead of just the definitive price? Take a look to the picture to easy-understanding.
Going beyond, is possible to link various items, whose commonality is the copper price??, being the rest fixed or changing less often, introducing somewhere the new copper price and updating all the reference that uses such material?
The point is, having 800 materials, all with their fixed concepts, just copper is changing, introduce the new copper price updating all those 800 codes with a single click :-). Maybe you are asking yourself why not update the definitve price then, is one figure only too..... in that case, think how useful SAP would be in a nego if you can obtain all the sub-cost by running a report, instead of opening 800 excel files or pdf's.
Note: What we are doing now if running a Excel macro that takes all the datas thanks all the suppliers for this material type use the same RFQ format.
Note: Normally your suppliers act in good faith, always providing the fixed concepts with the same value (margin= 8% for instance), but reality is different, and you have sometimes until 8 suppliers for cables or any other material group.....
I hope you my understand my two questions, feel free to let me know if you don't.
Raúl.