Excess Disposition

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1. Onboarding & Setup

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Add Customer Partners

1. Navigate to the Partners tab in the app.
2. Click + Add Partner.
3. Choose how to connect:
   • Find Team – for companies already on Seminode. Search their company name and select them.
   • Email Connection – for companies not on Seminode. Enter their Partner Email(s) (e.g., john@company.com) and Company Name.
4. Optionally record partner terms (contract name, renewal and expiry dates, notes) and send an invite email so they can create their own account.
5. Click Add Partner.

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Configure Company Quoting Email

• In Settings , configure a central quoting email (e.g., quotes@company.com) for all customer and supplier communications. Read more at Outlook Email Integration .
• All email partner quoting threads will be routed here and then stored successfully in your Inbox .

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Create Excess Inventory Node

1. Navigate to My Nodes in the Network Tab.
2. Select Create Node.
3. Provide a name, contact information, and description.
4. Configure authentication (read/write) and discoverability options. When checked, read/write protection requires authorization - when unchecked the data becomes public and anyone with the node URL can read or post data.
5. Click Create Node to finalize.

See docs on Nodes for more information.

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2. Posting Excess Inventory

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Upload Supply List

Prepare and upload your excess inventory data. See Upload Tools for detailed field requirements and examples. You can also email lists directly to email partners from the platform.

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3. Customer Actions

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A. Customers with Seminode

• Search materials, filter, export, and upload mass quote files.
• Centralized and structured quoting threads in-platform.
• Intelligent pricing analysis from network and web data.
• API usage to programmatically quote and create unique workflows.

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B. Customers without Seminode

• Receive an Excel excess list via email to your shared email.
• Submit quotes on excess via email to your shared email.

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4. Working Quotes

All quotes from network partners (in-platform) and email partners (via email) appear in your Inbox . A typical per-line loop looks like:

1. Review each incoming offer against your cost basis — map your inventory valuation as reference data and margin is calculated on every offer automatically.
2. Route offers for internal sign-off — the program or site that owns the material approves the sale through your approval flow before you commit.
3. Price and respond — counter, accept, or reject from the thread. Custom thread statuses work well as handoffs when one person works the line to approval and another sets the final price.
4. Close the loop — email partners automatically receive notifications based on your response actions.

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5. Orders

Quotes accepted by both parties turn into Orders, shown in the app at Orders . Track each order through your team’s configurable fulfillment stages — from purchase order received through shipment and delivery — and generate invoices and PO documents from the order record.