© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp CIR Desktop Manual for Purchasing C. Mavis/S. Pochinco Date: 23 rd September, 2009

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Windchill RPPA replacement system  Windchill version of the RPPA system is called PCS for Product Cost System  The new RPPA document is a CIR for Cost Information Request.  As of October 1, all requests for quote must be processed through PCS.

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp CIR Process Flow

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp CIR Routing When a CIR is created and the cost type is refined, it is automatically routed to purchasing

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp CIR Routing  When a CIR is submitted, the designated buyer will receive an ‘Auction/RFQ’ Windchill task and notification.

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp CIR Routing  When a part number is entered into a CIR, the commodity is defaulted to the list entered into Windchill. If parts are mis-routed, contact the purchasing gatekeeper to have it updated.

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp *If you do not choose a new buyer before doing this, the task will re- assign to you! CIR Routing – Reassigning a CIR  From your Windchill worklist, click the box for the task to be re-assigned and click ‘Reassign’

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Sending a RFQ to Suppliers Task in work-list when receive CIR Click to enter CIR

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Sending a RFQ to Suppliers Click here to view part details and prepare quote

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Sending a RFQ to Suppliers  Send out RFQ using Co-eXprise

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Sending a RFQ to Suppliers In Co-eXprise:  The “round” is labeled by the part number  The “event” is labeled by the CIR (RPPA) # and should contain the volume (s), print, suppliers, and required TRW forms (GSQM, packaging, etc.) Part Number Volume (s) Print Forms CIR (RPPA) # Suppliers

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Sending a RFQ to Suppliers Once the RFQ has been submitted through Co-exprise, the action can be approved in your Windchill worklist. Click here to approve the worklist task

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Sending a RFQ to Suppliers Click here when the RFQ has been sent Click here to send the CIR back to engineering for further definition

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Approving an RFQ Once an RFQ is sent, another task will appear in your worklist. This task should remain in your worklist until you’ve received the final quote from the supplier and have attached it to the part detail.

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Approving an RFQ Once the quotes are received from the supplier, they must be attached to the part details in the CIR. DO NOT attach the part quote to the front of the CIR. This is for the final Finance summary! Attach supplier quotes here

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Approving an RFQ By clicking here, the CIR will be sent to the commodity manager for approval. Click here if you are ready to submit the CIR to finanace

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Preparing RFQ documents in CIR Click here to view part details and prepare quote

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp Click here to add suppliers in which RFQ will be sent Click here to create RFQ documents Preparing RFQ documents in CIR

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp If all the information is correct, click OK Click here to create a html file that can be sent out to suppliers. Note: this step will NOT send the request to the supplier Once the html file is created, the buyer should the file to themselves in order to load it into Co-Exprise. Preparing RFQ documents in CIR

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp The system automatically shows ‘submitted’ because we no longer send RFQ’s through Windchill Preparing RFQ documents in CIR

© TRW Automotive Holdings Corp System Support Contacts  Programming/System – Akwasi Agyekum, Ken Corrion  Engineering – Joe Connor, Carol Mavis  Purchasing – Sarah Pochinco, Avelino Salceda  Finance – Mike Deming  Link to Online manual: