Bid and tender management in SAP
From a request for quotations to a multi-criteria tender: invite suppliers, compare bids and create the purchase order, integrated with SAP. Every step stays traceable and auditable.
From 3 quotations to complex RFI/RFQ tenders.
- Live in 4–8 weeks
- No cost per user or per supplier
- No additional SAP components
What is SiGO?
SiGO is Innova's application for managing quotations and tenders, integrated with SAP: from a simple request for quotations or a reverse auction to a multi-criteria tender with sealed bids, questions and negotiation rounds, through to the award and purchase order creation. The whole process is traceable and auditable.
How it makes the process easier
Multiple process types
Depending on what you need, you can create supplier pre-selection (RFI), simple requests for quotation (RFQ), reverse auctions or tender processes (RFP) with evaluation matrices and sealed bids.
Suggests suppliers
Based on previous purchases or the categories of the goods and services to be tendered.
Evaluation matrices
Proposes technical and commercial evaluation criteria, and the weight according to process or category.
Recommends the winner
Recommends the bid with the highest score as the winner.
Award with governance
Define whether some processes require additional approvals before awarding the winner.
The tender challenges SiGO solves
Six common situations and how they are solved. Select the feature to see it.
Tenders scattered across SharePoint folders and Excel files, with five versions to evaluate
One process, integrated with SAP: bids, criteria and rounds in the same place, with no parallel versions.
Suppliers who don’t understand a portal and end up emailing something that someone has to retype
Suppliers access the portal directly with their email and bid there: no hundreds of emails, no retyping.
Comparing prices without taking indirect or import costs into account
Technical and commercial criteria with the weight you define in each process, to evaluate more than the unit price.
Creating every new supplier in SAP just to request a bid
Evaluate and catalog potential suppliers in pre-selection, without adding them to SAP until they are awarded.
Not knowing who to invite to each process
SiGO suggests suppliers to invite, existing or new, based on their classification or previous purchases.
Negotiating by email round after round and awarding without traceability
Unlimited negotiation rounds with their history; the award goes through approval and creates the order, all auditable.
How it works, what you can do with SiGO
Supplier pre-selection
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.
Tenders and requests for bids
Create bidding processes from scratch or from requisitions with SiTRACK. Invite existing suppliers or new companies based on their classification or previous purchases.
Evaluation criteria
With SiGO, you can define technical or commercial criteria for manual or automatic evaluation, assign different weights to each process. Turn each tender into a process in just a few clicks.
Supplier portal
Forget hundreds of emails back and forth, hundreds of proposal documents, transcripts and summaries for evaluation. Suppliers directly access a portal and the order is created from the information available.
Benefits for every team
For users and the whole company
Information available 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.
All process roles 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.
Pre-selection without SAP master data
Evaluate potential suppliers, catalog them and invite them to bidding processes, without adding them to SAP until they are awarded.
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.
For the IT department
Easy to implement
You just need to import the installers and transport them to each client, like any other change in SAP, and deploy the front-end component according to your convenience (SaaS, on client web server, Fiori, SAP BTP).
Secure
With the SAP standard authorization objects and some of the App’s own authorization objects, control and segregation of duties are maintained through SAP standard user and role management.
Forget about maintenance and 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 users.
How SiGO is deployed
SaaS option
Innova deploys and serves the front-end component from its private cloud, on AWS infrastructure, and you are free of installation, updates and maintenance.
Frequently asked questions about SiGO
In 4–8 weeks. You import the installers and transport them to each client, like any other change in SAP, and the front-end component is deployed whichever way suits you (SaaS, client web server, Fiori or SAP BTP).
No. With the purchase of the application, any SAP user can use it, according to the assigned permissions. And for supplier access there are no limits or additional license fees.
No, no activations or installations of additional SAP components are required. Upgrades are not required either.
Yes. SiGO covers everything from a simple request for quotations or a reverse auction to complex RFI/RFQ tenders: it suggests suppliers to invite, supports their participation with a Q&A space, supports sealed bids and negotiation rounds, applies evaluation matrices, recommends the winner and creates the purchase order. The process stays traceable and auditable, integrated with SAP.
Not as standard, but with SiGO you can run reverse auction processes in which suppliers see progress online and whether or not they are leading the auction in real time.
With SiGO you can run as many negotiation rounds as you wish, keeping the traceability of each round and the savings obtained.
Yes. SiGO has a notification email template setting that you can define for each event and each type of process. In addition, when preparing the tender you will be shown a copy of the template and can make further adjustments.
Currently English and Spanish, but it can be implemented translated into any language that SAP supports.
See it working and let’s talk next steps
In 30–45 minutes, online, we show you SiGO. Tell us your challenges and let’s evaluate together how to implement it without friction in your system.
- See SiGO working
- Tell us your purchasing and tender challenges
- Evaluate how it fits your SAP: ECC or S/4HANA, SaaS or installed