When several suppliers have quoted for the same request, **Select Supplier(s)** compares their
quotations line by line, so you can pick the supplier per item or for the whole request.

## How to get there

1. Open the **Purchasing** module.
2. Open a **Request for Quotation** for which suppliers have quoted.
3. Click **Select Supplier(s)**.

## Reading the comparison

Each item of the request is one row, each quoting supplier one column.

* **The best price per line is highlighted in green.** For every item, the lowest offered price
  among all quoting suppliers has a clearly visible green background - you see the cheapest
  offer per line at a glance, without comparing the figures by hand.
* **All suppliers stay visible.** However many suppliers have quoted, the table fits the
  available width: with many columns they become narrower and their content wraps onto a
  second line rather than being pushed off the edge. Every supplier remains visible and
  selectable.

**Calculate Total** shows the resulting total for the current selection.

## Selecting and passing on the result

You pick the supplier **per line**, or assign one default supplier for the whole request - in
which case every item is marked for that supplier. Selecting **more than one** supplier splits
the purchase order accordingly.

After the selection the request moves from the folder **open** to **supplier assigned**.

The comparison can be **printed or saved as a PDF**, and exported with **Send to Excel**. If
the request carries **Selection Remarks**, they appear as normal text in the printed or
exported document.

*[PO]: Purchase Order  
*[AZA]: local folder
*[(PO]: Purchase Order  
*[RQ]: Requisition  
*[(RQ]: Requisition  
*[RfQ]: Request for Quotation  
*[(RfQ]: Request for Quotation  
*[SO]: Service Order  
*[(SO]: Service Order  
*[SQ]: Service Requisition  
*[(SQ]: Service Requisition  
*[SRfQ]: Service Request for Quotation  
*[OoB]: Open on Board  
*[(OoB]: Open on Board 
*[ART]: Average Running Time (operation hours per day) 
*[MC]: Master Contract
*[ADS]: Advantage Database Server (database engine used in previous versions of the ZeeBORN software)
*[.replic]: file extension for replication files (aka data transfer files)