Tender Process Management in SAP
SiGO Bid Management
Advanced Bid Management and Bids in SAP.
From requesting 3 quotations, to complex bidding processes, managing evaluation matrices, selecting the winning supplier and creating the order. An easy process from start to finish, through an App with an unmatched user experience. With SiGO, it is possible.
Main functions
Pre-selection of Suppliers
- Invite potential suppliers to submit their information, centralized in a web portal, where you can apply matrices and evaluation criteria and pre-qualify companies and then invite them to bidding or procurement processes.
Bids and Requests for Bids
- Create bidding processes from scratch or from requisitions with STRACK. Invite existing suppliers or new companies based on their classification or previous purchases. Select the winner and create purchase orders, all in one App.
Evaluation criteria
- How to evaluate an offer or supplier? Big spreadsheets? No more, with SiGO, you can define technical or commercial criteria for manual or automatic evaluation, assign different weights to each process.
- It predefines evaluation matrices for each case and turns each bid into a few clicks process.
Vendor Portal
- Forget hundreds of emails back and forth, hundreds of proposal documents, transcripts and summaries for evaluation. Suppliers access a portal directly, upload the requested information, it is evaluated, the winner is selected and the order is created from that information. All in a single, auditable source of information.
Benefits
Learn about the advantages of implementing our apps
For the IT department
Easy to implement
You just need to import the installers and transport them to each client, like any other SAP change, and deploy the front-end component at your convenience (SaaS, on client web server, Fiori, SAP BTP).
Insurance
With SAP’s standard authorization objects and some of the App’s own authorization objects, you ensure that you maintain control and segregation of duties through SAP’s standard user and role management.
Compliance
With the architecture of the solution you will not have any inconveniences regarding licensing or indirect access by suppliers, since they do NOT have access to SAP.
No maintenance or support
With the Warranty, Support and Upgrades service, Innova is responsible for maintaining compatibility with the latest versions of the system, as well as support and clarification of doubts with the end user.
For the entire company
Available and auditable
and auditable
The information of all bidding or supplier pre-selection processes is available for consultation or audits, depending on the permissions of each user.
Pre-selection of suppliers
Evaluate potential suppliers, catalog them and invite them to bidding processes, without adding them to SAP until they are awarded.
All process roles
process covered
SiGO includes buyers, technical/commercial evaluators and suppliers. None of your participants will be excluded from your processes as SiGO does not set limits or additional payments for the number of users or suppliers.
Integrated with purchase
tracking
Bidding processes can be created from requisitions in SiTRACK, and in SiTRACK, the user can validate each stage of the bidding process.
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So you can see in detail how your processes will be optimized in SAP.
Architecture
SiGO has an ABAP component within SAP (ECC or S/4HANA), and two front-end components served securely from our VPC on Amazon web services:
SaaS Architecture
The easiest and fastest option. From Innova we take care of deploying and serving the front-end component from our private cloud in Amazon Web Services, and you are free of installation, updates and maintenance. Communication via VPN site to site or SAP webdispatcher is required.
Requirements:
- SAP ECC version 6.0 or higher, up to the latest version of SAP S/4HANA.
- Site to site VPN configuration or SAP Webdispatcher.
- Possibility of web service publication from SAP ECC.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to your most common questions here.
English and Spanish. However, it can be translated into any language required by the client within approximately one week.
No, with the purchase of the application, any SAP user can use the application, according to the assigned permissions.
And for vendor access there are no limits or additional license fees.
No, no activations or installations of additional SAP components are required. Upgrades are also not required.
SiGO is a Bid and Tender Management tool integrated with the SAP system.
The information displayed and uploaded by suppliers about offers or requested information is stored in an external database, specific to the application. Everything else, which is managed and consulted by the user, is stored directly in SAP.
Yes, SiGO has a notification email template that you can define for each event and for each type of process. In addition, at the time of preparing the bid you will be presented with a copy of the template and you will be able to make other adjustments.
SiGO allows you to create new bidding rounds without limits. And you can consult the results of each round.
The supplier registers in the supplier portal always using his e-mail address. The registration procedure includes a temporary OTP password. The supplier can recover his password through the same portal by indicating his e-mail address where he receives the notification. The buyer can always change the e-mail address when necessary.
List of complete functions
- Information request processes (supplier prequalification)
- List of processes with status
- Detail
- Invitation Mailings
- Information for internal use
- General information
- Financial information
- File management for sharing with bidders
- File management for internal use
- Bidding processes
- Management of bidding processes
- Summary
- General information
- Financial information
- Additional information
- Detail
- Invitation Mailings
- Information for internal use
- Management of bidding items.
- Evaluation
- Selection method
- Criteria for technical evaluation
- Criteria for commercial evaluation
- Other criteria
- Files to share with bidders
- Files for internal use
- Addendum
- Supplier management
- Existing supplier
- New supplier
- History of negotiation rounds
- Summary of results
- Header criteria
- Position criteria
- Header criteria
- Position criteria
- Request for negotiation rounds
- History of negotiation rounds
- Information request processes (supplier prequalification)
- List of processes with status
- Detail
- Invitation Text
- General information
- Financial information
- List of process files
- Bidding processes
- Management of bidding processes
- Summary
- General information
- Financial information
- Additional information
- Detail
- Invitation Texts
- Management of bidding items.
- Process files.
- Function for uploading requested files.
- Addendum
