Example of Awarding a Negotiation by Line

When you have a negotiation with many supplier responses, you may need to break up the award and give different lines to different suppliers. This is typical when the response rules of the negotiation allow suppliers to select lines on which they respond.

In this example, the catalog manager's company is expanding into a new region of the country and is looking to acquire new suppliers. They have opened the negotiation to allow responses from as many new suppliers as possible. Additionally, the negotiation allows the suppliers to select which lines they respond to. The catalog manager decides to award the negotiation by line.

Awarding by Line

1. She accesses the negotiation from the home page.

2. On the negotiation summary page for the negotiation, from the Actions Menu, she selects Award > Award Negotiation .

3. On the Award Negotiation page, she clicks the Lines tab. The Award table has an entry for the negotiation's lines, lots and groups.

4. She highlights the first line she wants to award and clicks Award.

5. On the Award Line page, she enters the award decision for the line. This includes identifying which suppliers are receiving awards and their awarded quantity. She can award an entire line to a single supplier or split a line between multiple suppliers by selecting the suppliers for award and entering the awarded quantity for each (groups awarded at the group level cannot be split although the individual group lines can). Note that the entire line quantity does not have to be awarded.

6. Once all the award decisions have been entered, she clicks Save and returns to Award Negotiation page.