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- How it works:
- Advanced Features:
- Basic copy process with mini-reel pricing
What is it?
A function to calculate mini reel prices for specific component quantities. A tool to help you include repackaging costs from major suppliers.
- Available for DigiKey, Farnell, Mouser, and Future Electronics
Why do you need it?
- To get accurate pricing for quantities smaller than standard reel sizes
- To calculate repackaging fees automatically
- To optimize component costs for small quantity orders
- To compare mini reel prices across different suppliers
Prerequisites
- Active Buymanager account
- WebQuote access rights
- Valid RQT account for settings configuration (admin: see here)
- Access to the costing module
How it works
1. Basic Mini Reel Calculation
- Formula for DigiKey, Mouser, Farnell:
Final Price = Unit Price + (Mini Reel Fee / Quantity)
- Applies only to price where the required quantity, the Minimum Package Quantity (MPQ), data is available
- Future Electronics uses a different calculation method
- Distributors have different Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) for their mini-reels
- DigiKey: MOQ = 1
- Mouser: MOQ = 1
- Farnell: MOQ = 10 or 150 (depends on "Minimum" field)
- Future: MOQ = 2
> Calculation on the costing:
- If the required quantity <MOQ, the system will automatically use the MOQ value
- If the required quantity > MOQ, the system will use the actual required quantity
Examples:
Required Quantity = 5 . Supplier MOQ Digikey = 1
Results: price calculated for exactly 5 units.
Required Quantity = 5 . Supplier MOQ Farnell = 10
Results: price calculated for 10 units.
2. Enabling Mini Reel Feature
A. User-Level Setup:
1. Open Buymanager
2. Navigate to: Settings > User section > Costing > Price applied
3. Check "Include Mini reel fees in unit price"
B. Costing-Level Setup:
1. Open the desired costing
2. Either:
- File > Settings > Check "Include Mini reel fees in unit price"
- Or: Click WebQuote settings button > Enable mini reel option
3. Using Mini Reel Prices
A. In WebQuote Search:
- Mini reel options appear in packaging list
- Prices automatically adjust to required quantity
- Shows one mini-reel price per MPN per distributor
B. In Costing View:
- You can verify the packaging on the column "webquote standardised packaging" and "supplier packaging description"
Advanced Features
1. Basic copy process with mini-reel price:
- Perform a WebQuote search in the source costing
- Copy prices from the source costing to other costings
- The system will prompt you to update the mini-reel prices to update them to the required quantities
Note: If you choose not to update the pricing, the pricing will be copied with mini-reel pricing from the copied quantity.
Note: if the costing being copied doesn´t include mini-reel prices, the update message will not be displayed.
- When dealing with multiple quantities for the same source (i.e in aggregated costing):
- Only one line will appear in WebQuote view
- Multiple prices will be displayed based on quantities in the costing
- Mini-reel prices will be quantity-specific
A. Free Mini Reel Setup:
1. Log into the RQT account (https://accountrqt.buymanager.biz/)
2. Access settings
3. Check "Check this box if the fee does not apply."
- Note: Only available for Mouser and Farnell
Important Notes
- Future Electronics has a specific currency limitation. They support the mini-reel prices in Euro, USD, GBP, CAD only. Other currencies won't calculate mini reel prices
- Settings can be different for each user
- Settings can be configured at both the user and costing levels
-Mini reel cost will be calculated only for parts with a requirement quantity < MPQ (MPQ = Packing Qty
- When using "get prices" from a sub-deal, the destination costing (main deal) will inherit the mini-reel settings from the source costing.
- When creating a consolidated or aggregated costing, if any source costing has mini-reel enabled, the new consolidated/aggregated costing will automatically enable mini-reel. This will not affect the other original costings integrated.