How do I increase the capacity of suppliers to add in Sourcing event?

To add and invite suppliers to an event, you must be a member of one of the following groups:

• Category Manager
• Commodity Manager
• Customer Administrator (access to this group must be approved by SAP Ariba)
• Event Administrator (access to this group must be approved by the SAP Ariba Market Coordination Team)
• Junior Procurement Agent
• Junior Sourcing Agent
• Limited Event Administrator (access to this group must be approved by the SAP Ariba Market Coordination Team)
• Procurement Agent
• Sourcing Agent
• Sourcing Approver
• Sourcing Project Administrator (access to this group must be approved by the SAP Ariba Market Coordination Team)

To add 700 suppliers to the sourcing event, you must set the the following parameter values to 700 in the Manage Administration Intelligent Configuration Manager page of the SAP Ariba Sourcing solution:

• Application.AQS.RFX.EventLimits.CompetitiveEvent.MaxSuppliers
• Application.AQS.RFX.EventLimits.NonCompetitiveEvent.MaxSuppliers
• Application.AQS.RFX.EventLimits.LargeContentsRFP.MaxSuppliers

To specify a limit for the number of supplier responses you can view in the Content, Scenario, and Award tabs of the event monitoring interface, set the Application.AQS.RFX.LargeNumberOfSuppliers.DefaultFilterSize parameter value in the Manage > Administration > Intelligent Configuration Manager page of your SAP Ariba Sourcing solution. Default value for this parameter is 100.

For more information, see the Intelligent Configuration Manager parameters reference guide.

• Maximum number of suppliers a buyer can invite to a standard-capacity sourcing event is 700.
• SAP Ariba does not support configuring 700 initial bids for 700 suppliers in the sourcing event.
• SAP Ariba supports only a maximum of 100 bid responses for a standard-capacity sourcing event with 700 suppliers.
• Maximum number of suppliers a buyer can invite to a standard-capacity sourcing event or a large-capacity sourcing event is 700.
• SAP Ariba supports a maximum of 100 supplier responses for a standard-capacity sourcing event.
• SAP Ariba supports a maximum of 125 supplier responses for a large-capacity sourcing event.

Please note that suppliers are notified with the following message if their bid response happens to be >= 101^th response for a standard-capacity event or >=126^th response for a large-capacity event:

The event has already received the maximum number of supplier responses. Hence, you cannot submit this response.

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