2025.5.2 - New Acquisition process

Release information 2025.5.2. - Rework of Standard acquisition process

General

• Update different label names in workflows

• Add values in DATE fields manually or select from calendar

Project Definition

• New: Selection of "Successor business" moved from Strategic Positioning

Footprint

• Development Location now mandatory to be determined (Go ready for API)

Project Dates

• Rearrange order of available dates 

• Enable usage of configurable Project dates (Go ready for API)

• New: Start of Volume Planning / End of Volume Planning set by user for planning volumes before SOP or after EOP (lifetime planning option) 

Strategic Positioning

• Move "Successor business" switch to Project Definition

RFQ team and timing

• Rearrange page (view optimization)

• New: Flexible usage of team Responsible and Approvers

• Define your own approval requirements in Evaluation workflows

• Enable/disable need of Responsible and/or Approver in acquisition process

Specification

• Remove mandatory upload of 3 x specification items

Part Definition

• Enable configurable use of attribute "Calculation model" in DA-settings

Part volume tab

• Default planning method (Take Rate or volume) configurable

New: Target Price

• Takeover average project price/1 from strategic phase or

• Add average project price/1 for new acquisition project

--> tab will be blocked after adding values in "Prices & Costs" tab

Evaluation to Quote section

Evaluation

• Availability of functions based on given responsible in RFQ Team definition

• Requirement for Approval based on given Approvers in RFQ Team definition (automated approval possible)

• Mails sending based on selected RFQ Team

Reimbursement & Invest

• Tab moved to new position before Cost calculation

Cost Calculation

• New mandatory attributes available; calculation number, Business case number (Go ready for API)

Prices and Costs

• On Action: "Create Quote" now contains

  • Selected part attributes and price components

  • Summary of Reimbursements (OTP) - Cash in values

  • Contracted Project volumes per Year

Business Case Update

• Remove mandatory entries for KPI

• Automated takeover of total volumes / Turnover and provide calculated average price (TO/volume)

Quote to customer

• One View - Merge of file upload, Quote to customer and request for Quote approval on one page

• in preparation: Show sum of Cash-in relevant reimbursements related to actual Quote version

• Quote Export contains now

  • Selected part attributes and price components

  • Summary of Reimbursements & Invest (OTP) - Cash in values

  • Contracted Project volumes per Year

• Quote Approval Request - more flexibility in Approver selection

  • Request for standard Quote decision (blue) -  Select users (max. 5) based on given roles and permission

  • Request for Executive Board decision (yellow) -  Select users (max. 5) based on given roles and permission

Quote Approval

• Show approver name and date after confirmation

New Version

• Rearrange tab  - Remove option to select single tabs for updating in new version

• New Version allows to update all workflow tabs w/o approvals

Order Intake Report

• Switch between Total or PEAK values

• New: KPI Strategic Hitrate 

  Formula:

  Strategic Hitrate = Total Turnover (TTO) all awarded projects in selected period / TTO all active acquisition project (Priority: Strategic)