What it does
Duplicating takes the details of one of your existing demands and produces a new draft from them. When you want to source the same products for a different period or a different delivery point, you start from a ready-made draft instead of typing everything again.
Duplicating works whatever state your demand is in: drafts, published demands, and demands whose process has already ended (closed or cancelled).
How to do it
- Open the My Demands page.
- On the card of the demand you want to copy, open the More actions (⋮) menu.
- Click Duplicate (new demand).
- The new draft opens under the Edit Demand heading, directly on the Review step. You see the whole demand there; use the Edit link next to the section you want to change to jump to that step and update the title, the quantities and the Offer closing date field.
- Use Save draft if you want to keep working on it, or Publish demand once you are ready to open it to suppliers.
The copy is in Draft status the moment it is created. Suppliers cannot see the demand until you publish it, so you can change as much as you like beforehand.
When to duplicate
- When you want to reissue a demand whose terms have changed. Once the first offer arrives, a demand can no longer be edited: the Edit demand button disappears from the demand page and is replaced by the notice "The demand can no longer be edited once the first offer has arrived." In that situation the right move is to duplicate the demand and publish it with the new conditions.
- When you want to reopen a closed or cancelled demand. A closed demand cannot be put back on the market; you create a copy of it and publish that instead.
- When you are opening a demand for a different delivery country with the same product list. Instead of re-entering every product, you only change the Delivery country and Delivery point (city / port) fields on the copy.
A copy is a new demand
Duplicating does not create a "link" or a "version". The copy is a completely independent new demand:
- It has its own offers; offers received on the old demand are not carried over to the copy.
- It has its own message thread; correspondence on the old demand does not appear on the copy.
- Its own activity history starts from scratch.
- The old demand stays exactly as it was. Duplicating does not close, cancel or alter the source demand.
So when you publish the copy, suppliers see a brand-new demand for the first time and the offer process runs from the beginning.
What to check on the copy
Review the draft from start to finish once the copy has been created. Pay particular attention to two points:
Offer closing date. The old demand's date is most likely in the past. The offer closing date also cannot go beyond the latest date your plan allows; if the date on the source demand is past that limit, it is pulled back to the limit on the copy. Always set the date yourself.
Advanced options. The source demand may have been created with advanced fields that the plan you held at the time unlocked. If your plan no longer covers those fields, the related options are not carried over to the copy. Check the final state of the demand on the Review step.
Quantities, the pricing currency and the description text usually need updating too — treat the copy as a starting point, not as an exact replica.