Adding additional vendors to outsource request
Occasionally the initial vendor selection does not provide a suitable response and further vendors need to be selected and quote requests sent out.
This needs to be done without affecting the initial supplier requests/portals.
When the initial suppliers have been emailed you will see the email confirmation icon and a hover over showing date and time:
Additional supplier/suppliers can be added at any time. The checkbox next to the email icon will be on by default (if the email has not yet been sent). This represents what suppliers will be emailed the supplier request. In this example, only ‘Brands Australia’ will receive an email and not the two previous suppliers. The blue ‘Send Email Requests’ button will also display the number of suppliers selected in brackets:
A new request will be added to the board without changing any existing requests:
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