Export a request for pricing
A request for pricing allows you to get pricing from multiple suppliers. Use the Export Request for Pricing commands to save a request for pricing as an Microsoft Excel worksheet or a steelXML file and send it to suppliers. You can also attach the request for pricing to an email and send it to a supplier using Microsoft Outlook. Once you receive responses, you can import the suppliers' pricing information to Tekla PowerFab.
Save a request for pricing as a Microsoft Excel worksheet
To modify the request for pricing in Microsoft Excel, see Modify pricing information in Microsoft Excel.
Email a request for pricing as a Microsoft Excel worksheet
Save or email a request for pricing as an steelXML file
The Export to steelXML command works specifically with the steelXML software. Use the Export to steelXML command to submit requests for pricing to suppliers, so that the suppliers can give you prices that are specific to the material information in the current requisition.
All items in the current requisition are included in the steelXML file that is exported. If you need to submit some of the items to different suppliers, you need to move those items to a different requisition.
After the supplier has processed the file in steelXML and sent the file back to you, you can import the steelXML results back to Tekla PowerFab. For detailed instructions, see Import pricing information to a requisition.