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OPT-187
This feature introduces bid analysis options in the classic SAP Ariba Sourcing user interface and the guided sourcing user interface to enable buyers to perform bid analysis tasks for sourcing events that are in the pending selection, awarded, or completed state. Bid analysis involves comparing bids that are received in response to an event, analyzing bids based on historical data, user-defined ranges, and various optimization scenarios.
After suppliers respond to events, buyers currently have no analysis capabilities that equips them to understand how the event has transpired. This is neither available at the event level nor at the item level. This lack of analysis capabilities has resulted in a less than optimal user engagement in the post monitoring phase of an event.
Using bid analysis, buyers will now have a graphical and tabular view of the bid responses. This will provide the buyer with both event level and item level views which will help them negotiate better and ultimately provide better decision support when narrowing down on suppliers.
Buyer
Customer Configured
SAP Ariba Sourcing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
From the Manage / Administration / Intelligent Configuration Manager page of the SAP Ariba Sourcing solution, enable Application.ACM.EnableBidAnalysisTab.
This feature is supported in the classic SAP Ariba Sourcing user interface and the guided sourcing user interface. To use this feature in the guided sourcing user interface, your site must have guided sourcing enabled and you must be a member of the Category Buyer group.
You must have either optimization workbench admin or optimization workbench user permissions to be able to use the bid analysis options.
To create events that support alternative bids and supplier-added line items:
- Ensure that the following event rules are set to Yes:
- Can participants create alternative responses?
- Can participants create alternative pricing?
- Include alternative pricing bids when bids are ranked
- Allow supplier to add items
- Specify a value not less than 1 for Number of supplier added items.
- Ensure that the terms are created as editable by owner and participant so that suppliers can edit the terms in alternative bids.
Only pricing alternative is supported for bid analysis. Tier and bundle alternatives are currently not supported.
You cannot apply a saved filter to the out-of-the-box optimization scenario Maximize scoring.
Only RFP events are supported for bid analysis.
Bid Analysis is not available for multi-round events.
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