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      What's New in CQ: February 2024

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      Check out the latest developments in CQ's arsenal of features, live in the app - through the wonders of our Feature Discovery! We're introducing Tater Feature Spotlights regularly to keep you informed about the innovative enhancements in CQ that are bound to enhance your quality of life.

       

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      What's New in QuoteCQ?

       

      Costed BOM Comparison 👯

      Are you curious about how your costed Bill of Materials (BOM) compares to another in the QuoteCQ application?

       

      Users can now select a costed BOM to compare a single qty across various columns like IPN, CPN, Selected MPNs, lead time, and more!

       

       

      Why do I care? Compare the columns you want to compare so you can make the best decisions for you and your customer.

       

       

       

      BOM Health Update: Packaging and Country of Origin Pies added 🥧

       

      Two fresh pies, hot out the oven! Check out the new pie visuals when you're checking out your BOM's health:

       

      If you're not taking advantage of BOM Health and BOM Health Monitoring, yall are late to the game!! Reach out using the in-app chat or your Account Manager to get it set up.

       

       

      Scrub My BOM now brings in UOM! 📏

      You read that right!! Scrub my BOM will now use its channels to pull in the UOM used on a line it has seen before.

       

       

       

      Why do I care? UOM is a hassle! Let your historical data and other connections work for you so you don't have to get them added later.

       

       

       

       

      PCB Update: Reports Now Available! 📊

      You spoke, we listened! PCB Reports have been added to the PCB tab!

       

       

       

      Check out the new actions button and download the report keep track of the user input data, the data your suppliers sent back, AND the pricing data between the two.

       

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      Why do I care? Use the reports to check out the differences between the requested data and the data sent back from your board suppliers.

       

       

      Manual Imports now understand periods AND commas as separators 🥹

      Isn’t life great? Now import your manual pricing reports with how you typically show pricing, with commas or periods!!

       

       

      Why do I care? Yall, two words: LESS SCRUBBING! Import right away without having to run macros to switch around periods and commas.

       

       

      Custom Data Source Update: all delimiters are now accepted!! 😭

      We know, right!? No need to change those semicolons, commas, spaces, WHATEVER – now when importing your manual or your FTP data source, your files can have whatever delimiter it desires. We’ve got a few listed below:

      • Comma

      • Semicolon

      • Tab

      • Vertical bar

      • Space

      • More!

       

      Why do I care? We'll say it again - LESS SCRUBBING! Import your data sources without needing to switch over your delimiters.

       

       

      CQPS Update: RoHS2 and RoHS3 now viable from some Supplier APIs ✅

      MORE INFO MEANS GREATER POWER! Now DigiKey, Farnell/Newark, and Avnet EU will bring in which is RoHS2 or RoHS 3 it if that data is available from the supplier.

       

       

       

      What's New in ShopCQ?

       

      All Approved Alternates pushed to ShopCQ after Won 🎉

      Now all the alternates, whether from the BOM or from your Approved Alternates Link (Learn more here!) will push over to ShopCQ when purchasing.

       

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      Why do I care? You care so you can see all possible options when purchasing - check what's best out there and get it bought!

       

       

      PPV (Purchase Price Variance) Column added to Price Selector 💸

      Check your PPV after making selections in ShopCQ! With this new column, users can now check to see the difference between the quoted price and the actual amount the user will pay to get it.

       

       

       

      Why do I care? Ensure your totals are what they need to be before placing your POs. This helps users see pricing differences more easily.

       

       

      New Open API: Update PO Numbers 💻

      A new API was added to help users taking advantage of the Open APIs to help update the PO Numbers to help correspond with your internal systems.

       

      System Improvements

      Below are general system improvements and bug fixes that were resolved in this last release.

       

      QuoteCQ

      BUGFIX: Package quotes were duplicating lines when being added to bids. This has been resolved and the proper amount of lines are pushed.

       

      BUGFIX: Importing bids via the materials tab had been omitting some lines. This has been resolved and all data is present when imported.

       

      ShopCQ

      BUGFIX: Some totals had been rounded incorrectly, though the unit price sent was correct. This was resolved Feb. 7th with a hot fix. The total cost is now rounded correctly.

       

      API Update

      RochesterAPI was giving errors for lines that didn't return pricing. This has been updated to match the other APIs.