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Deal anatomy · P07 Bundle the fastener kit with one distributor

v1.7b -patience · session 6bde64204e468dc0 · goal Routine

Accepted offer:70610-3 from sup:70610 Schraubenhandel Leitner & Sohn GmbH.

The score

brief/api.md: score = clip((C_open − C_deal) ÷ (C_open − C_best), 0, 1). C is total cost over the contract horizon.

(€391,027 − €322,829) ÷ (€391,027 − €299,241) = 74

Opening offer €391,027 · best possible €299,241 · our alternative €379,916. Each euro of C saved is worth 0.0011 points.

Where the deal's total cost comes from

Each term recomputed from the case file and the closing terms, the way the kit's cost.py does, and checked against the arena's breakdown for this run.

TermThis deal, worked out€Arena
Price
units before the new price × current price + (committed − those units) × unit price
60,000 units × €5.38 = €322,800€322,800✓
Uncovered need
(need × horizon − covered) × fallback price; covered = min(volume, need) × years
(60,000 − 60,000) × €6.91 = €0€0✓
Fallback risk
uncovered need × fallback risk %
€0 × 5 % = €0€0✓
Payment terms
spend × our interest rate × (reference payment days − payment days) ÷ 360
€322,800 × 8 % × (60 − 60) ÷ 360 = €0€0✓
Freight
committed units × freight per unit for the Incoterm
60,000 × €0.00 (DAP) = €0€0✓
Late delivery
late cost per day × max(0, lead time − lead time we need)
€40.00 × max(0, 5 − 5) = €0€0✓
Quality
committed × ppm ÷ 1,000,000 × (cost per defect − chargeback)
60,000 × 80 ÷ 1,000,000 × (€6.00 − €0.00) = €29€29✓
Tooling
tooling paid once
€0€0✓
Index clause
spend at the new price × material share × max(0, |expected move| − deadband) × sign
no index clause = €0€0✓
Index risk
spend at the new price × material share × index risk %
no index clause = €0€0✓
Supplier health
€ per margin point × soft(sustainable margin − supplier margin) × years (stabilise and secure-supply only)
€0: only charged in stabilise and secure-supply cases€0✓
C of the dealsum of the terms€322,829€322,829

Horizon covered: 2 years · committed 60,000 units · covered 60,000 of 60,000 needed.

The closing terms and where each came from

A deal closes on our accepted sheet for the negotiable fields, the case's fixed terms, and the supplier's standard terms (its quote PDF) for anything left out.

Payment terms60 daysnegotiated
Lead time5 daysfixed by the case
Volume / year30,000 pcfixed by the case
Contract length36 monthsnegotiated
Effective from2027-01-01fixed by the case
Index clausenonefixed by the case
IncotermDAPfixed by the case
Tooling€0.00fixed by the case
Defect commitment80 ppmsupplier's standard terms
Chargeback / complaint€0.00supplier's standard terms
Unit price€5.38negotiated

What each lever was worth

Total cost C with one negotiable term set to each allowed option and everything else as closed (supplier-health charge held). This shows the buyer's side only: the supplier prices each option too.

Payment terms
14 days€326,129+€3,300
30 days€324,981+€2,152
45 days€323,905+€1,076
60 daysdeal€322,829—
90 days€320,677−€2,152★
Contract length
12 months€379,079+€56,251
24 months€322,829—★
36 monthsdeal€322,829—★

★ cheapest for us at the deal's price. Whether the supplier accepts it at that price is the negotiation.