Create a new corporate wine project:
- Click on Project management/RFX-Project list
Click on New
Search and select template Corporate Global Wine Sourcing
Click on Apply
Default Business Unit: METRO AG (CFM)
Catalog: METRO AG(CFM)
Project management
Project details:
- Fill in all mandatory field, marked in red
- Naming convention for projects:
Business Unit_Article type_Country_Region_[Level]_Year
Example: MCCI_Wine_USA_California_Basic_2023 - Naming convention for articles:
Business Unit_Article type_Country_Region_Wine Name_Quantity per Selling unit_Brand_Quality level
Example: MCCI_Wine_USA_California Zinfandel Rosé semi dry_0,75l_Discovery Bay_basic
Project Team:
- Invite your team
- Click on Add-find and select the user
Click on Add to project team
Select the role of the user
Click on Apply
Roles:
OBM Lead: You, the project leader, who created the project
OBM Substitute: Has same rights as the project leader
Buyer participant: Country buyers
Guest: Has only viewer right on the project
Save your project team
Add the users
Click on Save project team as
In the pop-up give a title for your team
Click on the save icon
Click on Apply
Insert your project team (in a new project)
Click on Insert project team
Search and select your team
Click on Apply
Supplier Circle:
- Invite your suppliers
- If the supplier is already existing in the Supplier database click on
Add-select supplier-Add to current project
- Save supplier team/Insert Supplier Team (similar function as for the buyer team)
Documents:
Click on Upload
Set GC icon allows you to set your document as General Conditions
Who can see the documents:
•Buyer access: Buyers
•Supplier access: Suppliers
•Buyer participant access: Country buyers
Demand Specification:
- Insert empty lines (for new articles)
Number of lines: number of new articles
Click on Apply
The system will generate the new eSourcing IDs
Fill in all mandatory fields marked in red
- Copy Values:
use it to copy data from an article to another, brand/contract start, end date
- Insert existing article (for renegotiated articles)
If the article was already created, you will need to renegotiate it
Condition: the article needs to be awarded
Search and select the article ID
Click on Renegotiate Article
- Article status explanation:
Active: article was awarded, can be renegotiated
In development: article is included in a project, not yet awarded
Deleted: article ID cannot be used
Expired: previous active version
- Fill in all needed information regarding articles, as international classification, name, brand, type of packaging, unit, contract start and end date, previous buying price, final buying price
- Publish Demand Specification
Click on Publish
Click on Next in the pop-up
Set the End date of your grid using the calendar
Project status will change from In setup into Online
- Country buyers can provide their quantities/quantities can be maintained on buyers behalf
- Click on Place Values
- Select Business Unit: the MCC country
- Insert the contract quantities under contract quantities column
- Click on Save
- Click on Publish all tabs
- When you maintained all country quantities, Close the Demand Specification grid
Awarding:
- Click on the Awarding tab
- Click to select Show supplier name on all lines
- Select the supplier/article combination to be awarded
- Click on Award
- You can also use Export Awarding/Import function to award the project via excel
- Project status will show Awarded or Awarding in process
- This template is not generating any automatic emails for buyers or suppliers.
- You can use Copy for renegotiate to renegotiate your articles to a new project/contract period
For any further questions do not hesitate to contact us.