Our 3D CAD supplier models have been moved to 3Dfindit.com, the new visual search engine for 3D CAD, CAE & BIM models.
You can log in there with your existing account of this site.
The content remains free of charge.
If you want to focus especially on the costs side, choose the Cost mockup report.
This report provides prices of search and comparison parts in addition, so that you can perform a rough costing on this base. Hereto a respective price column has to be available.
In the index tree, select a supplier parts directory or a certain supplier part, in order to search for comparable supplier parts in other supplier catalogs, which could possibly be used as alternative.
Call up the report creation via context menu command Purchineering -> Cost mockup -> Create report..., alternatively via Extras menu -> Purchineering -> Cost mockup -> Create report....
Under Threshold in % choose 70 for example.
State the price column of the source (here PRICE).
In the section search in following directories activate the desired catalogs or subdirectories.
Add the user defined variables (concerns the catalogs to be searched: here again PRICE and ERP_PDM_NUMBER).
Details on the settings dialog are found under Section 3.1.14.1.9, “Setting options for "Make or Buy", "Find suppliers", "Cost mockup"”.
At first you see the following listing under Overview:
Under Results you get a listing of all matching comparison parts within the respective catalog, according to the settings with ERP number and price in addition.
A description on the single icons is found under Section 3.1.14.1.10, “Icons in "Make or Buy", "Find suppliers", "Cost mockup"”.
A description on the single buttons is found under Section 3.1.14.1.11, “Buttons ”.