In order to don't have to re do from scratch the configuration of a One Quote for similar clients or to requote same products when an active quote expires, Account managers have the possibility to:
- Extend validity dates of a quote without any approval requested
- Renew an active or an expired One Quote
- Clone an existing One Quote
I/ Extend One Quote
As an Account Manager, I can without approval extend once the validity of my quote by 30 days.
This feature is available clicking the "Extend One Quote" button (1) at the top of the One Quote layout
Conditions for the button to be displayed:
- The One Quote status has to be "Closed - Sales Started"
- AND the “Quote extended ?” checkbox has to be false
After confirming the Extension (2):
- “Price Valid To Internal” is updated to CURRENT “Valid to (internal)” date + 30 days
“Quote extended ?” is updated to true
- The creation of a new task is triggered for data input into SAP with a subject named “Load Price to SAP - Extension” (3)
II/ Renew One Quote
II.I : Reminder on quote about to Expire
An Account manager will receive on every Friday an Email that will let him now that he has some quotes to renew within 15 Days (Price Valid To).
Quote that are already Renewed (Renewed To filled) are not part of this reminder
II.II How to renew a quote
As an Account Manager, I can do a full cloning of an existing quote to don't have to configure it from scratch again.
The feature is available clicking "Renew Quote" button (1) at the top of the One Quote layout
Conditions for the button to be displayed:
The One Quote status has to be "Closed - Sales Started" or "Expired"
Renewall steps:
First screen (2) asks the user to confirm the date fields preopoluated following dates creation rules:
Price Valid From
Price Valid To
Offer Expiring By
After clicking on “Next” we check if there is some OQLI not matching anymore the criterias to be added to the renewed quote. If one of the condition below is met the product line won't be cloned and displayed on the second screen for information:
OQLI.SLV44_Product_Level_5__c.IsActive=False
OR OQLI.SLV44_Product_Level_5__c.SLV44_Allow_Product_on_Quote__c = False
OR No active “Region and Market Pricing” records link to the product level 4 with the same combination of BU/Pricing Region than the One Quote
Then clicking on “Next” we perform the full cloning creating the new One Quote and related product lines
- Copy of the same estimated annual volume, incoterms, quoted price, rationale, description, Incoterm Details, Lead Time, MOQ, Special custiler information as the original.
- Copy of the same estimated annual volume, incoterms, quoted price, rationale, description, Incoterm Details, Lead Time, MOQ, Special custiler information as the original.
If there are other Active quotes for the Sames Sold To, the user can select to add active products to the renewed quote (3)
We display :
Quote Number
Product
Ship To Account
Shipt To City
Incoterm
Quoted Price
Currency
UOM
Price Valid From
Price Valid To
Scaling Price Enabled
The following criteria need to be check in order to display theses lines :
Quote Status = “Closed - Sales Started”
Quote Sold To = Sold to of the new quote
Quote pricing region = Pricing region of the new quote
Quote BU = BU of the new quote
Not to display on this new screen the combinaison of product & ship to that are already in the quote.
One Quote.Owner = Logged in User
Quote Line .Is Active = True
If there are NO other Active quotes for the Sames Sold To, with Active Price settings the user can NOT select them and a message warn them. The list of product that can not be renewed are displayed. (4)
After confirming the Renewall :
One Quote Updates:
Dates values coming from the first screen
Status of the renewed One Quote updated to “Draft”
ID of the original quote populated on the One Quote “Renewed From” lookup field
SLV44_Quoted_extended__c field updated to false
One Quote line item Updates:
Clone all the OQLI not matching criterias of the second step
Copy all fields except approver fields, Region and market pricing, volume bracket, One Quote
All fields below will be well recomputed: Margin Policy bracket, all price guidance fields, ICM %, Discount, Approvers fields
RMP and volume bracket lookups are automatically recalculated
ID of the original One Quote line items populated on the new One Quote line item “Renewed From” lookup field
ID of the renewed One Quote one the One Quote lookup
“IsActive” field updated to false
III/ Clone One Quote
As an account manager I have the possibility to clone either the Quote header and the products so that it is easier to create quotes for similar customers
The feature is available clicking "Clone" button (1) at the top of the One Quote layout
Conditions for the button to be displayed:
The button is available at any stages without any visibility condition
Cloning steps:
- On the first screen we give the possibility to edit One Quote details
- As we do for renewall we display optionally a second screen in the case there is one or more products not quotable anymore checking conditions below:
SLV44_Product_Level_5__r.SLV11_PRO_GBU__c = OneQuote__r.SLV44_GBU__c
SLV44_Product_Level_5__r.IsActive = True
SLV44_Product_Level_5__r.“Allow product in Quote” = True
SLV44_Product_Level_4__c has an Active related “Region and Market Pricing” record (“Is active” = true on RMP object) for the same combination of OneQuote__r.SLV44_Pricing_Region__c (Region on RMP object) AND OneQuote__r.BU (“Market / BU” on RMP object).
SLV44_Product_Level_5__c as at least one related Manufacturing plant and Shipping plant stored at Material - Plant (SKU)
- On the third step we display the list of all quotable products coming from the original One Quote and give the possibility to users to select them with a checkbox for OQLI’s he wants to clone.
At this step we also checking if we are going to hear any errors at insert. If errors are triggered we give the possibility to users to edit individuals OQLI from this table.
- If the user try to clone a OQLI with Price setting not active an error message is displayed as follow.
After confirming the Cloning with no errors :
- Creation of the One Quote record updating the Status to Draft
- Creation all selected OQLI’s and link them to the cloned One Quote
- Recalculation of all approval fields (approval statuses, approver roles, approvers), price guidance, Region and market pricing, volume bracket fields
- We retrieve Manufacturing/Shipping plants if still available. If not available we follow the normal logic (auto populate if only one choice, if more than one choice keep them blank).
- Populatation of the same Ship To, legal entity, Contractual Commitment as the One Quote parent.
- Copy of the same estimated annual volume, incoterms, quoted price, rationale, description, Incoterm Details, Lead Time, MOQ, Special custiler information as the original.
- Displaying of a success message: “Your quote has been successfully Cloned”
- User redirection to the cloned quote







