Hi all.
I'm relatively new to S2P, and am looking to support a customer that has a complex Tender lifecycle. Their process largely contains the following:
- Receiving and approving a request from an employee for a Tender (effectively a 'Sourcing Request')
- building approved material to go on a public sector tender site
- managing and responding to clarification questions
- down-selecting suppliers eligible to tender
- building the decision framework
- making a final decision
My plan is to align the initial record producer to the Sourcing Request table, and have the process flow as a Playbook on that table, so that the lifecycle is reflected there.
The next relevant step in the OOB process seems to be the supplier qualification process, but that seems to require that we first know the suppliers, so I'm guessing that won't assist the process until we're down-selecting the eligible suppliers.
The negotiation process seems very simplistic in comparison to my client's needs - I'm thinking this could be a relevant record to store the criteria they decide on and their output, but because I'm not seeing an "SPM-like" scoring framework, I'm not sure this is going to do what they need for now. Am I missing anything?
Are there any other elements in the Sourcing & Procurement Ops flow that aligns with this early part of the process?
The process after the final decision is made is not currently in scope, but the ability to create a contract record and associate it with a supplier, then manage that through to delivery, will be a future scheme of work. The invoicing side of things will, if all goes well, follow after that.
