SRM Vendor Lists

[Former Member]

Hello Everyone,

I have a question on vendor lists.

Process Vendor Lists allows users to maintain their own vendors for sourcing and for shopping carts.

Is there a transaction to maintain a Bidder List?

As far as I understand the "Process Vendor List" will only bring suppliers that are in VENDOR status.

We have a requirement to create lists for supplier in BIDDER status (may never be converted as vendors). These suppliers will be used for bidding purposes. Is there a seperate transaction for maintaing Bidder lists?

I would appreciate any info you may have.

Thank you

[Former Member]

if i am not wrong

(don't have system now)

when you add bidders in the sourcing events viz BI or auction

i.e. go to 'bidders' tab and go to 'find' tab

in the search criteria you have the selection of bidder/vendor.

But if yr business partner is only bidder you will not be able to create PO/contract of him

so you may reconsider this constraint.

BR

Dinesh

[Former Member]

Thank you very much for you replies.

I see what you are saying, but our business process is to invite bidders to the initial bidding process, once the responses are evaluated, a bidder is preselected and converted to a vendor. Then another bid invitation will be published as a final version for creating contracts.

No contract/PO is created with the initial bidding process.

I have another question in regards to vendor lists.

When creating a vendor list, we select a vendor. If that bidder/vendor has multiple contacts (user ids), is there a way to select the contact person we want to use.

Looks like the system automatically selects a contact based on some criteria.

Please let me know if anyone has any information on this.

[Former Member]

you may try the route of follow-on Bid Invitation.

In the initial bidding process the participants can be bidder only.

Once you shortlist some

then you can enhance them to vendor link to ECC vendors if reqd.

then create a follow-on Bid Invitation.

BR

Dinesh

[former_member183819]

Hi

I might understand your requirement partially.

vendor list helps during sourcing to find the vendor easily with product category or product wise.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm30/helpdata/en/d5/849b3cc34ca10ee10000000a11405a/content.htm

Via WEB Manage Business Partner - You can create a Bidder or can add bidder data to vendor .

regards

Muthu