Within Preferences, you can set your My Preferred Suppliers and Search Filters. This allows you to choose for Web Price results the suppliers you prefer when loading a list into BOM Insight. You can also specify if your part search results must be “in-stock or “exact matches”.
To view your settings for My Preferred Suppliers in Web Price and Search Filters, hover over your profile icon and click on Account. Then in the side bar click on Preferences.
My Preferred Suppliers
Within Preferences, the My Preferred Suppliers are only in regards to Web Price results and not other price sources. Clicking on the button Choose your Suppliers allows you to set the specific Authorized and Independent suppliers you only want to view pricing from for any Web Price results. This will not impact any other price sources results.
Check the boxes of any Authorized or Independent Suppliers that you want to mark as preferred. The hyperlinks for each supplier selection can help you to either Select All or Deselect All from the Authorized or Independent options. After you've made your selections, then click on Save in your My Preferred Suppliers modal.
This will take you back to your Preferences page. You’ll see that the number of suppliers selected will automatically update the count for the "Authorized" and "Independent". Therefore, when Preferred Suppliers is selected to populate your list, and there are Web Price results from suppliers not in your selected Preferred Suppliers, then those results will be ignored when pricing your BOM. You will then need to click on Save Preferences to finalize all of your Preferences page settings.
Search Filters
You also have the option to set your preferred Search Filters. Check the boxes if you only want to have results for parts that are In Stock and/or an Exact Match.
When you have finished updating your Search Filters, then click on Save Preferences on your Preferences page.
For more information about difference source options, please review the BOM Cost Prioritization & Options article for additional details.