on 06-07-2006 10:08 AM
All,
Can I request the following clarification. Following previous assistance,I'm aware that bid invitations can be published to a portal or accessed by bidders on SRM through a logon id and password.
My clients requirement is for neither of these options, but to instead send a bid through an email attachment or fax to a potential bidder. Is it possible to transmit a bid invitation, in the same way you can transmit a PO or other document through email or fax?
The background for my client is that they issue tenders to many potential bidders, and don't wish to set up all of these as vendors on ERP, interface to SRM plus maintain id's and passwords on SRM for them or to maintain a portal for potential bidders. It seems odd with my current understanding that we have surrogate bidding where a bid response can be entered by the client in situations where the bidder does not have system access, but we do not have a means of transmitting the bid in the first place without setting them up on the system.
Thanks for any assistance and more especially your patience on this.
Regards
John
If possible, can I request someone to review this question. Thanks for any input that can be provided. It is much appreciated.
Regards
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John
First of all with out having user ID and password it is not possible for bidders to enter SRM system to submit bids. So Business partners have to be created in SRM with contact person(Bidder) details.
You can try one thing. It is just my thought and I dont know how far it will be viable. I never tried.
Create a dummy business partner(vendor) in SRM and create many contact persons ie one for each vendor with their ID/password and email address. Then select all vendors(like receiving multiple bids from same vendor) and send the bid invitation.
Bidders will login and submit the bids. Then buyer will see the bids from all vendors (actually from one vendor but with different contact persons).
Then buyer can decide on the winning bid and then create a business partner for the winning bid and continue with the purchase activities.
With this you can avoid creating many business partners at the time of creating bid invitations.
Other alternative is, if you dont want to create ID and passwords for Bidders then send tender details to all vendors off line via e-mail and ask them to send the price to Buyer offline.
Regards
Jagdish
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