Purchasing & Supplyoperational
Supplier Offers & Quotes
How do you collect and compare supplier offers before ordering?
Purchase offers and sales offers share one offer spine, so a quote received from a supplier is the same kind of record as one you send. The offer builder suggests lines from items nearing expiry and from your most-purchased items, and offers can be exchanged directly through the partner portal.
What is checked before it commits
5 checksExpiry-aware suggestions
Items approaching expiration are proposed as offer lines, so replacement is planned before write-off.
Top-purchases shortlist
Your most-purchased items are suggested when building an offer, keeping frequent buys one step away.
Partner portal exchange
Offers carry flags for portal display and portal receipt, so external negotiation is part of the record.
Price benchmarking
Supplier price research is captured as records for side-by-side comparison before ordering.
One offer spine
Purchase and sales offers share the same record structure and lifecycle.
How it works
A purchase offer names the supplier and the lines under negotiation, on the same offer structure the sales side uses. That shared spine means an offer received from a partner and an offer you author are comparable records with the same lifecycle, not two disconnected features.
Offer building is stock-aware: the builder surfaces items nearing their expiration date and your top-purchased items as suggested lines, so replenishment offers start from what actually moves and what will soon be lost. Price-benchmarking records let buyers capture and compare supplier pricing before committing to an order.
Portal exchange is tracked on the offer itself — flags mark whether an offer is displayed to the partner portal or was received from it, keeping the negotiation history inside the record.
What this touches
- Supplier management
Offers run against supplier partner records and their item links. - Purchase orders
An accepted offer becomes the basis of the purchase order. - Orders & Offers
The shared offer and order spine is managed as one commercial record set. - Partner Portal
Suppliers exchange offers through their portal accounts. - Lots, expiry & serials
Expiration data from lot tracking feeds the offer builder suggestions.
See supplier offers & quotes running in continON.
A guided walkthrough on a sanitized demo tenant — this capability inside its module, on the shared platform.