When creating an RFQ, you can define if suppliers can submit their responses even if the data in some of the “Required” columns are missing information. This will determine the suppliers' line item responses' status of either ”Submitted” or Not-Submitted”.
When the Accept Partial Responses is set to “Yes” (default setting), then the suppliers' responses will receive a status of “Submitted”. This status will show even when data is missing from a “Required” column. When some lines are missing information in the required columns, there is a red error to remind the supplier. However, their responses' status is still changed to “Submitted” for all lines.
If the Accept Partial Responses is set to “No”, then the suppliers' responses will receive a “Submitted” status only if data exists in all of their “Required” columns. When some lines are missing information in the required columns, there is a red error to remind the supplier. The responses' status of the lines without errors will change to “Submitted”, however, the lines with the error message will still show as “Not-submitted”. As long as there is one line with a "Submitted" status, then a supplier's RFQ progress in Quoting will show as “Responded”.
After the creation of your RFQ, you can view in the details to the right of its name whether the RFQ is accepting Partial Responses. If you need to, you can edit your Partial Responses selection by clicking back on the Details tab.