Marking a vendor as preferred helps your team decide which vendor to select when sourcing and ordering parts. Preferred vendors are indicated with an orange star () on CCC ONE screens to differentiate preferred vendors from non-preferred vendors. Shops may use preferred vendor settings at their own discretion. The shop also determines how the preferred vendor indicator should impact the shop's part decisions.
Marking OEM vendors preferred
Any part vendor can be marked as preferred. However, marking an OEM vendor as preferred will narrow OEM vendors displayed during the estimate part sourcing process. Only OEM vendors marked as preferred for the vehicle make on the workfile will be returned in OEM part sourcing options.
This is also true during the checkout part ordering process. If there are no preferred OEM vendors specified, then any of the shops OEM vendors may be selected for the checkout order.
CCC® Estimating
In the desktop application preferred vendors may be shown when:
- Writing the estimate and shopping for part alternatives
- Creating a manual purchase order
- Ordering parts through Checkout
Shopping for part alternatives
Creating manual purchase orders
Ordering parts through Checkout
cccone.com
In cccone.com preferred vendors may be shown when:
- Writing the estimate and sourcing parts
- Ordering parts through Checkout
Sourcing parts on the estimate
Ordering parts through Checkout
CCC ONE Touch
In the Touch application preferred vendors may be shown when:
- Writing the estimate and shopping for part alternatives
- Ordering parts through Checkout
Shopping for part alternatives