How to configure for the following?

[melutovich]

I'm investigating a company's use of Konakart.  Firstly, I am very impressive.

The company deals with being a middle man between their suppliers and their customers.

A customer requests a price quote including availability for products.  The company then researchs the products.
Existing products in their database are checked for new prices from the suppliers and the suppliers availability for the products ( usually no products are kept as inventory and they order from suppliers as customers request.)  New products are researched and if found added to the products database.

Using konakart could customers request a price quote, which would be I guess a pending order and then the sales department would research the products, and response with an updated order of products their prices, quantity available with the suppliers, etc.  Customers would then accept the updated order or make changes and then resubmit as a request for a price quote.

Can product discounts be only available to a selection of customers (guests shouldn't until determine to not be a competitor given the discount policy)?  Usually they assign a % discount for each product.

Can total orders have additional discounts if over certain levels?

Any thoughts to have a back-office system which interfaces with suppliers?

Thanks in advance,
Mitchell Elutovich

[trevor]

Using konakart could customers request a price quote, which would be I guess a pending order and then the sales department would research the products, and response with an updated order of products their prices, quantity available with the suppliers, etc.  Customers would then accept the updated order or make changes and then resubmit as a request for a price quote.

Yes this could be possible. A customer could use the repeat order functionality to resubmit a new order.

Can product discounts be only available to a selection of customers (guests shouldn't until determine to not be a competitor given the discount policy)?  Usually they assign a % discount for each product.

Yes, promotions can be filtered by customer groups and one of the standard promotion modules that we ship, allows you to define a discount for each product.

Can total orders have additional discounts if over certain levels?

Yes, one of the promotion module shipped with the product allows you to specify a discount only if the total is above a certain limit. In order to have more than one limit so that the discount is increased base on ranges, you could modify the promotion module that we ship or just activate a set of promotions each of which kicks in at a different level and make them non cumulative. In this way it will only use the one that gives the most discount.

Any thoughts to have a back-office system which interfaces with suppliers?

In order to get a trigger to start a communication, you can use both the custom engine which allows you to place code before and after all API calls, and the integration classes such as the OrderIntegrationMgr which gives you the opportunity to make call outs when an order is saved or when the state of an order is changed.