On the Inquiry tab, most of the fields from P.30.11 are displayed again. The Payment Type field is only displayed for inquiry type ‘Subcontract’; the Expediting Level, Inspection Level, and Criticality Level fields are only displayed for inquiry type ‘Order’; and the Reason for Supplement field is only displayed for supplements > 0 (zero).
The Approval Template for Quotes field can be used to assign an approval template to the inquiry by selecting it from the LOV. All templates of type 'Quote Summary' are available. You can double-click in this field to open the A.20.45 Approval Templates screen where the templates are defined. The contents of this approval template are copied to the quote summaries that are created when approving the inquiry.
In the case of the approval of an inquiry supplement > 0 (zero), the approval template
is ignored. In this case, the approval sequence as defined for the quotes on the previous
inquiry supplement is kept.
The number rule to be applied when using the Automatic Number button can be selected from the LOV in the Number Rule field. Double-click in the field to open the P.10.35 Number Ranges and Rules screen where the number rules are defined. For more information, see Inquiry Ranges and Rules. If the Number Rule field is not filled, the rule assigned to project default ZP_INQRULE is used instead in combination with ZP_INQRANG and ZP_REQ_DP. For more information, read the corresponding chapters in MSCM Project Defaults (ZP).
Click the Automatic Number button to re-generate the inquiry number based on the selected number rule. If any error occurs during the number generation, the process stops and the inquiry number is not updated. Possible causes are:
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Any of the mentioned project defaults is not set.
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The end of the defined number range was reached.
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The generated inquiry number is not unique within the project.
The automatically created inquiry number can be updated. The Automatic Number button is enabled as long as the inquiry is not approved.
Select the Summarize Line Items check box if identical requisition line items should be summed up on one quote detail. If this check box is marked, identical material is going to be summed up. Material is regarded as being identical if the ident code, tag number, and unit of the released quantity, group-by, and summary attributes of the MTO are the same. If you do not select this check box, material is not summarized. Each requisition line item results in a quote detail. You should use this option if you need to separate your material because of different prices, delivery designations, delivery dates, and so forth. The default value of this check box is defined by the project default ZP_DEF_SLI.