T4.2 Negotiation support functions

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T4.2Negotiation support functions

• Marco Barbi
• KELYAN

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Functional requirements recap

• Enable the collaboration among user companies
• Understand the supply conditions and the customer
  needs
• Exchange of formalised documents
• Provide formalised specification for company
  offer
• Suppliers can specify their offers by means of
  their local language and classification scheme
• Suppliers declare offer features via parameters
• Offer classification based on taxonomies
• Support for defining company demand in respect of
  the company offer
• Customers can specify their needs by means of
  their local language and classification scheme
• Customer demand follows the parametrical
  structure provided by the supplier
  (misunderstanding prevention)

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Use cases (1)

• UC1 Offer definition
• Actor Company A, German manufacturer of
  cylinders
• Defines a new family of cylinders (zylinder
  standard mechanisch)
• The family is parameterised via 4 features
  motion (linear, telescopic) power 0/50
  powered (hydraulic, pneumatic) size 0.0/20.0
• The Eclass taxonomy is used for the family
  classification
• UC2 Product configuration (video)
• Actor Company B, English engine manufacturer
• Prerequisites Company A has been chosen as
  potential supplier (partner search)
• Chose a family among the ones offered by Company
  A
• Set the parameters values according to their
  needs
• The configuration is stored

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Use cases (2)

• UC3 RFQ preparation (video)
• Actor Company B
• Prerequisites the product configuration has been
  already defined
• Fills the data in for preparing a new Request For
  Quotation document addressed to Company A
• The RFQ is linked to the configuration.
  Additional info quantity
• The document is stored
• UC4 RFQ dispatch and notification (video)
• Actor Company A, Company B
• Prerequisites Company B has prepared a new RFQ
• Company B sends Company A the RFQ
• Company A is notified of the incoming RFQ
  (e-mail)
• Company A views the RFQ and configuration details

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UC2 Form rendering
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UC2 Check configuration
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UC4 RFQ dispatch
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Advanced configuration

• KET-PC (Kelyan)
• Rule-bases product configurator software
• Product modeller module (Eclipse RCP)
• Data repository (Server repository via HTTP
  protocol)
• Pluggable run-time engine

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Use cases (3)

• UC5 Offer definition - advanced support (video)
• Actor Company A
• Prerequisites KET-PC module enabled for Company
  A
• The standard product definition is imported by
  the KET-PC modeller application
• KET-PC modeller manages the standard product
  definition parameters as native parameters
• KET-PC modeller definition of constraints
  limiting the valid configurations, e.g. power gt
  30 -gt powered in pneumatic and size gt 8.0
• UC6 Product configuration - advanced support
  (video)
• Actor Company B
• The same as UC2 parameters values selection
  constrained to rules

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UC5 KET-PC modeller import
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UC6 Check configuration (KET-PC)