What's the difference between a negotiation style and a negotiation template?

You can use both negotiation styles and negotiation templates when creating negotiation documents. The purpose for each is different, but they both help shorten the creation process. A negotiation style uses only the creation features necessary to create the target type of negotiation.

Any features not required aren't accessible using that negotiation style. For example, if line attributes aren't appropriate to a particular type of negotiation, the procurement application administrator can create a negotiation style that omits line attributes. When that negotiation style is used to create a negotiation document, the application pages used to create line attributes don't appear. By focusing only on the features required by the type of negotiation, the creation process is shortened.

A negotiation template is a skeleton you apply to a new negotiation you're creating. Negotiation templates can provide default data for many of the negotiation document attributes, for example addresses or invited suppliers. You can modify some of these attributes when creating your new negotiation document.

Negotiation templates also let companies standardize practices on negotiation creation. For example, different templates can be used with different item categories. You must have access to the Procurement Business Unit under which the template was created to access and use it.

You can have a default negotiation template when you create a negotiation. You can enforce the usage of the negotiation template by requiring that category managers must select the template.