Weighting of Scores 

Definition

The scores a vendor is awarded for main criteria can be weighted differently to reflect differences in the significance of the criteria.

Structure

Weighting Factor

By using weighting factors, you can increase or reduce the importance of certain criteria when a score is calculated at the next highest level.

Suppose a vendor receives 80 points for the criterion "Price" and 80 points for the criterion "Service". Since the price of the material is more important to you than the service the vendor provides, you assign the criterion "Price" a weighting factor of 3 and the criterion "Service" a factor of 1. The 80 points for Price are then worth three times more than the 80 points for Service when the overall score is calculated.

Weighting Keys

A weighting key is an identifier under which the weighting factors for a number of main criteria can be grouped together and saved.

If you know that you will want to carry out an evaluation repeatedly with certain main criteria and certain weighting factors, you can save this combination under a weighting key.

When you carry out the next vendor evaluation, just enter the relevant weighting key instead of entering a weighting factor for each individual criterion. The system then automatically sets all the weighting factors.

There are two possible types of weighting key in the standard system:

Key 01 permits the equal weighting of all criteria.

Key 02 enables you to evaluate vendors supplying small parts, for example.
The weighting factors under this key are distributed as follows:

Price 5

Quality 3

Delivery 2

Gen. service/support 1

External service provision 2