Publish RFQs from Business ByDesign to Twitter or Facebook

Publishing RFQs fromBusiness ByDesign on TwitterA Social Media Showcase Scenario

Christian HappelDirector Solution Management for Social MediaSAP Business ByDesign07/2010

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Scenario Flow

A dummy Twitter-bidder is added to an RFQ in ByDesign before publishing it

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RFQ is published on Twitter and can be opened as pdf-file by anyone

Quotes can be received from suppliers that are not known yet

The RFQs published on Twitter contain a detailed description of what exactly is needed by the buying company

The RFQs can be seen by any interested company in the world who have an Evernote account

They can use the provided contact information such as e-mail or phone to get in contact with the buyer

By this the buyer gets in contact with potentially new suppliers he didn’t know before

In addition the hastag #rfq allows companies to easily find RFQs from different suppliers on Twitter, e.g. by using an RSS feed

Beside Twitter this scenario also works with Facebook, Google Buzz and all other social media websites supported by Tarpipe

With Tarpipe you can even publish it on all those sites at once

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Scenario Setup

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Prerequisites:Needed Accounts

Get an account for the following services:

Tarpipe.com Evernote.com Twitter.com

Prerequisites: Connect your accounts with Tarpipe

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Prerequisites: Define workflow on Tarpipe including Evernote, Twitter, mail decoder and a hash tag #RFQ

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Copy Email-address of your workflow

Prerequisite:Define email-address as output channel for dummy bidder

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Paste the email-address of the Tarpipe workflow

Dummy Twitter-bidder to be added to the RFQ

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RFQ is sent to email-address at Tarpipe and Tarpipe publishes it on Evernote and Twitter

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Contact

Christian Happel

Director Solution Management for Social MediaBusiness ByDesign

christian.happel(at)[email protected]