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Bid Evaluation & Awarding

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For both RFxs and reverse auctions, SAP SRM provides the tools for sophisticated analyses that helps companies weigh price concerns along with other important factors such as quality of materials and services, delivery times, past experience, dependability, scale-up ability, and more.

Purchasing professionals can easily generate illuminating bidding statistics and perform side-by-side comparisons of individual bids and suppliers.

Easy-to-use Web templates with preconfigured analysis scenarios keep customization to a minimum and empower buyers to make the kind of decisions that provide the enterprise with the greatest long-term benefit.

Based on bid evaluation the Purchasers can reject or accept bids, then create or update a contract using approval workflow that maximizes productivity.


The following business goals and objectives can be achieved through the implementation of these processes:


Business Processes

Analyze ResponsesSAP Component or Feature Available

Bid comparison in SAP SRM allows for the side-by-side comparison of bids, including identification of the lowest price for each and every line item, responses to all attributes, aggregation to outline levels etc, giving the purchaser the tool to evaluate incoming bids.

Bid Comparision of RFx responses includes a powerful weighting and scoring functionality to help the Purchaser in the decision process.

This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Industry Package

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    Award of BidSAP Component or Feature Available
    Bids and responses can be examined and awarded (accepted or rejected) down to item level by the purchaser. The awarding process is fully supported by approval workflow to ensure process correctness.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Industry Package

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    Event ReportingSAP Component or Feature Available
    Event reporting provides a powerful tool for monitoring event history. SRM integrates directly to SAP BI to provide RFx and Auction reports. It also allows for download to Excel format to enable Excel reporting.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Industry Package

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    Bid Simulation and OptimizationFuture Focus
    Bid simulation and optimization allows you to consider different scenarios to optimize your RFx events towards the best, lowest cost decisions. It helps you select the right number of suppliers, the right suppliers, the best logistics etc…

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Industry Package

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