Tender Process Management
Most of the industries or companies process their bulk purchases through the issuing of a "Tender". A single tender may contain variety of products from different domains. These separate products can be called 'tender lines' - Technically. So instead of bidding the whole tender, different prospects will bid different products(tender lines) according to their capacity and volume.
In Normal case OpenERP creates purchase orders for all the quotes. Later they are cancelled keeping only the purchases order of the selected quote. Zesty Beanz has introduced a different solution which is more flexible. Here purchase orders are created only after the final evaluation of the bids and selecting the desired one.
Tender form
Bidding form
The issuer can processes the tender lines one by one, instead of processing the whole tender at once. Each tender line will have corresponding bid lines. Based on the evaluation of the quotation, one bid line is chosen. Once, whole the lines are processed, The issuer confirms the Tender. After confirmation of the tender, further bidding is not possible. The confirm action will create purchase orders for the approved lines only with the quoted quantity and price of the products.
