In this section, you make the settings for vendor evaluation that apply to all purchasing organizations:
In the step
Define Purchasing Organization Data for Vendor Evaluation, you define individual values for each purchasing organization.
Note that different vendors can be evaluated by several purchasing organizations. To ensure the comparability of these evaluations, the system settings must not differ. For example, you may not allow differentscoring ranges.
Clarify with the persons responsible for the individual purchasing organizations which criteria, weighting keys, and parameters are required in each case and what the precise descriptions are to be. Then define all main criteria etc. which are to be generally available in your vendor evaluation system.
The following table illustrates the general settings taking the main criteria as an example:
| Criteria | General | PO1 | PO2 | PO3 | PO4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Service | X | X | X | |||
| Delivery | X | X | X | |||
| Price | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Consulting | X | X | X | |||
| Innovation | X | X | ||||
| Ecology | X | X |
A maximum of seven different main criteria are defined. Purchasing organization (PO) 1 uses four of them, purchasing organization 2 also uses four, but not the same ones; purchasing organization 3 only needs three, whereas organization 4 works with five main criteria.
Settings that are not made at the general level include the control parameters. These can differ for each purchasing organization, depending on requirements.