Use Scoring Requirements

Using scoring requirements in the negotiation.

June Tsai is awarding business in a negotiation. One goal of the negotiation is to identify possible new suppliers for several items. There are several requirements in the negotiation to solicit information about new companies who responded. The negotiation has ended, and June has closed it for responding. She continues evaluating the responses to make her award decisions. The first two requirements deal with company information.

The following table shows the sample requirements used in the worked example.

Requirement

Type

Maximum Score

Weight

Mission Statement

Text

10

40

Years in business

Number

20

60

Scoring Requirements

  1. June first closes the negotiation by selecting Manage Negotiations from the task panel. .

  2. On the Manage Negotiations page, she finds her negotiation and clicks the negotiation number link.

  3. On the Negotiation page, from the Action menu, she selects the Close suboption of the Manage option.

  4. To begin the scoring phase, from the Actions menu, she selects the Open Scoring suboption from the Manage Negotiation option and clicks Submit.

  5. From the Actions menu, she selects the Score Response suboption of the Award option.

  6. On the Score Responses page, she clicks the edit icon for the supplier response she wants to score. On the Enter Scores page, she enters her scores using the following values.

    Requirement

    Type

    Maximum Score

    Weight

    Score Entered

    Weighted Score

    Mission statement

    Text

    10

    40

    9

    36

    Years in business

    Number

    20

    60

    16

    48

    She can enter scores on behalf of a scoring team member. Scorers can download the scoring spreadsheet and score offline for themselves or others in the scoring team and do the same for themselves and others through application as well. She can view the supplier comments in the scoring spreadsheet.

  7. When she has finished entering the scores for the two requirements, she clicks Submit.