how to activate Bidding Engine ?

[diegohs]

Hi guys,

I was working with SRM 4.0 incomplete, I mean without Bidding Engine, Contract Management nor SUS.

What I need to do in order to activate the Bidding Engine ?

Thank you !!!

REgards !

Dieog

[diegohs · Accepted solution]

Well... I adjusted the roles, now I create a bid succesfully.

My next question are:

1. My bid looks very weird, the smartform displays just # characters. Is this a bug ?

2. Once SRM sent the email to the vendors, what can I do if I dont have SUS licensed ?

I mean, Can the purchaser capture the vendor prices for the articles in anyplace ?

3. Quotation option (Employee Role) is for requesting services right?

Thanks for your help !!!

Regards,

Diego

[diegohs · Accepted solution]

Hi Guys,

Any idea about this ?

Regards !

Diego

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Diego

1. Not getting what you said.

2. For Bidding activities SUS is not required. You need to create a contact person for a vendor. Then SRM send email to vendors (contact person email) along with the URL wherein vendors can login and submit the bid against the Bid invitation.

So all the Bids submitted by vendors will be catptured in the Bid invitation document only.

I am not sure about the capturing the bids/prices in separate place as such.

3. Are you talking about the requests or RFQ? Employee role doesnot have access to any quotation (RFQ). If it is requests then yes, it is for services

Regards

Jagdish

[diegohs · Accepted solution]

Hi jagdish,

Thanks for your reply ! It really helps me 😃

Ok, and how can I create a contact person for my Vendor?

Thank yoiu !

Dieog

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Diego

Login with purchaser role and select link "Manage business partner" (BBPMAININT). Then create Employee for business partner on RHS. There you give enter all details and also UID and password.

Then login to vendor screen with that UID/PWD. You will find the bid invitation and submit the bids against that.

Do reward points for the helpful solution.

Thanks

Jagdish

[diegohs · Accepted solution]

Hi Jagdish,

I tried that before, but.. I cant create the employee because I receive the warning "enter your telephone number".

But I dont have any phone number on that screen.. =(

Do you know whats going on ?

Regards,

Diego

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Diego

Apply SAP notes 864011.

Make changes to templates BBP_VENDOR_CREATE_521, BBP_VENDOR_CREATE_522, BBP_VENDOR_CREATE_340, BBP_VENDOR_CREATE_720 in SE80.

With this you will be able to see the Phone number field on the screen.

Try this and let me know.

Do Reward points for the helpful solution.

Regards

Jagdish

[diegohs · Accepted solution]

Eyy.. thanks man 😃 Now I can create a contact person for my vendors 😃

I have 1 last question: SRM sends the bid via email. The vendor receives the email message and ....?

- Where can the vendor enter the prices ? (without SUS)

- How can a Purchaser enter the prices ?

Thanks !!!

Regards,

Diego

[yann_bouillut · Accepted solution]

Hi Diego,

As soon as the vendor receive an email, he will have the SRM link to connect to the SRM system, log-in and submit a bid.

Kind regards,

Yann

[diegohs · Accepted solution]

Hi Yann,

Nice to see you're back again 😃

Well.. the issue is that I have a lot of small vendors without infraestructure (internet access, computer, etc), so in many cases the purchaser needs to enter the vendor's prices himself.

Is this possible ?

Regards,

Diego

[yann_bouillut · Accepted solution]

Hi Diego,

As said before :

-bid on behalf of a supplier is available as of SRM50

- for release < SRM 50, you will have to create an additional contact for the supplier.

The purchaser will have to use the logon/password from this "fake" supplier contact to enter price and thus create a bid on behalf of the supplier.

Kind regards,

Yann

Message was edited by: Yann Bouillut

[diegohs · Accepted solution]

Hi Yann,

Sorry. I missunderstood your comment.

Ill try this, and Ill let you know

Kind Regards !

Diego

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

In the e-mail the URL for logging on to the SRM system remains empty. Where should this URL be specified ?

Thanks in advance, Sander