How You Track Negotiation Lifecycle Activities

As category managers and collaboration team members, you can track negotiation activities throughout the negotiation lifecycle.

The negotiation activities are available in the enhanced user experience format as a timeline view and a list view where you can also download the entire activity log in MS Excel.

Starting with draft creation, all negotiation actions are recorded, which include, publish, close, extend, amendment, new round, and award. Additionally, actions performed by team members during scoring and response analysis are also recorded and displayed in the timeline.

You can track these activities:

  • Negotiation lifecycle activities like create, publish, close, award, create purchasing documents, download negotiation documents and attachments, and reassign negotiation
  • Track negotiation creation activities liCke requirements, lines, , suppliers
  • Collaboration team member activities like track changes related to addition, updating, deletion of collaboration team members, scoring, and task completion
  • Response activities like surrogate response creation and submission, download response documents and attachments, and disqualify response
  • Supplier activities like invite additional suppliers, locking out a supplier, and unlocking a supplier
  • Sending messages
  • Track REST activities
  • Large negotiation like trigger asynchronous processes, import negotiation lines, award, and so on