Bidding Engine general questions :-(

[diegohs]

Hi guys,

These are some questions for Bidding Engine experts.

HEADER DATA AREA

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Basic Data

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- Type of Publication: differences between public vs. restricted bid invitation

- Differences between "Detailed Price Information": Simple / Complex / No prices

- The permission "Bid can be Changed" enables the changes actions for whom ?

- What for is "Binding Period" field ?

- Product Category: whats the purpose of this field? is it required ?

Weighting

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- Differences between "Weighting" function for Date fields: Manual Valuation / Linear Function / Stepped Function

- What does mean the message "Opening date 15.05.2006 00:00:00 is before the bid submission deadline 16.05.2006 00:00:00"

- How can I enter the weight manually?

- I cant understand how is the price weighted. =( Do you know ?

GENERAL QUESTIONS

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- What happens if I accept two bids for the same items ?

- Talking about the Bid Buttons, what means the "Set to ready" button ?

- Is it possible to apply screen variants to this transaction ? (Bid Invitations) I need to change a lot of fields to visible only

I would appreciate any help on this =( I cant find any document about "how to use" the bidding engine =(

Thanks for your help guys !!!!

Regards from Mexico 😃

Diego

[Former Member]

Hi,

Binding period defines the date till when the offer is binding for the supplier.

Cheers,

Claudia

[diegohs]

ey guys, whats up. 😃 Any help with this matter ? 😃

[yann_bouillut]

Hi Diego,

Please read online documentation where you will find answers to some of your questions.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/67/c3833cfa3dbc2ce10000000a114027/frameset.htm

Kind regards,

Yann

[diegohs]

Hi Yann,

You were right, documentation is quite complete 😃 Im reading this right now, If I have a non-answered question after that, Ill let you know 😃

Thanks man 😃

Regards,

Diego

[diegohs]

Hi Yann,

First question: I cant understand the price weight:

In a given Price field, the following values can apply:

- Min. attribute value = 1,000 euro

- Max. attribute value = 9,000 euro

- Max. number of points = 100

- Min. number of points = 0

If the bidder enters a price of 1000 euro or less, this will generate a valuation factor of 100. A price of 5,000 euro will generate a valuation factor of 50 and any price equal to or greater than 9,000 euro will generate a valuation factor of zero.

Is this right ? I cant understand the relationship between this values and the number of points assigned =(

Regards

Diego

[diegohs]

Question 2: Where and How can I "valuate" a manual attribute ? 😃

[Former Member]

Hi Diego,

The valuation factors are created to derive certain number of total points at the line item level by multiplying the valuation factor with the weighting factor.

For example:

when you weight a certain attribute like lead time as 50%. Then a valuation factor of 100 will yield the maimum number of points that this attribute can achieve.

The bid validation logic to generate a valuation factor is processed by the above logic you mentioned.

The valuation factor is calculated in the following way:

example:

Lead Time Max:15 days

Least: 1 days

If the vendor enters 1 day as his lead time in the bid, his valuation factor becomes 100 and therby gets full points for that attribute. If he enters 7 days, his valuation factor becomes 50.There decresing his score on that particular attribute.

I hope this helps.

If you have any further questions let me know

Thanks

Sundeep

[Former Member]

Can you explain what field binding period is for? I can not find it in the help.

Regards,

Ed

[Former Member]

Hi,

Binding period defines the date till when the offer is binding for the supplier.

Cheers,

Claudia