Automatic Bid Factor Population with Queries

You can associate a bid factor with a specified PeopleSoft query, which automatically populates bid factor responses based on the query results. When a bidder selects to bid on an event, the query that is associated with the bid factor is run and the resulting values are entered in the respective bid factor response fields.

For example, you could have a header bid factor asking whether the bidder is a minority supplier. This information is collected when the bidder registers and is on the supplier record. You can build a query by using the supplier and bidder records, and as part of the bidder event response, the system runs the query and automatically populates the response with the minority supplier information.

You can also extract external supplier information, such as supplier performance, to weight and factor in during bid analysis. You can map a supplier performance bid factor to the Supply Chain Warehouse database or to a Dun and Bradstreet database.

See PeopleTools: Query