Viewing Buy Opportunities

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Buy Opportunities are generated in one of two ways: either a match is found between a buyer's posted shortage and a seller's posted excess, or a match is found between a buyer's search and a seller's posted excess.

A buyer learns of a buying opportunity through an e-mail message generated when PartBridge finds a match or when a search results in a match. In addition, a buyer is kept up-to-date through information displayed in the Message Center.

To view your Buy Opportunities, log in with your user name and password, and then either select Buy Opportunities from the Buy menu, or click the Buy Opportunities line in the Message Center.

The Buy Opportunities window displays all of the line items that match your postings and searches.

Searching for a Specific Line Item

To find a specific line item on the Buy Opportunities screen, you can search for information with the Find function located at the top of the screen or you can sort by column.

• To search for a particular line item, enter the word(s) or number(s) you wish to find and select the column from the drop-down list; then click the "go" button.
  

  The window refreshes and displays only the results of your search. To view all your postings again, click the line about Buy Opportunities in the Message Center.

• To sort by column, click any column heading that looks like a hyperlink. For example, the Seller column can be sorted alphabetically.

Working with Buy Opportunities

For each line item that you would like to pursue further as a possible purchase, do the following:

1. Enter a Buy Qty. Notice that the Available Qty and the Need Qty both change to reflect your Buy Qty offer.
2. Enter an Offer Price.
3. Add Comments (not required).

When you are finished making changes, click the Submit My Offers button.

You can undo all your changes by clicking the Undo All Changes button if you have not yet clicked the Submit My Offers button.

After you click the Submit My Offers button, a transaction ID is opened in PartBridge and the line item becomes visible to the seller at the Seller Pending Approval window, where the seller can accept or decline your offer.

The Offer Qty is decremented from the Need Qty on Postings [My Shortages] screen. The Need Qty may show a negative number if the Offer Qty exceeded the Need Qty.