How to find Bidding engine installed.....???

[Former Member]

Hi

Got a basic doubt to know on how to find a Bidding engine is installed and licenced by seeing the config in the server.

Is there any config to find this?

Because I can see the links "Create Bid invitation", "Process bids", etc, even without Bidding engine licence.

Please correct me if I am wrong..

Thanks in advance

Jagdish

[Former Member]

Hi Jagdish,

In term of licences, Bidding Engine is priced separately as an engine.

But in term of solution, it is already there & available in the system:

- one transaction for the purchaser

- one transaction for the supplie

- Live Auction Java part

There is nothing special related to licence to be activated in SRM to use Bidding Engine.

Rgds

Christophe

[Former Member]

Christophe

Thanks a lot for your help.

That means even without a Bidding engine license, one can create Bid invitation but cannot publish it. In that case if any one try to publish the Bid invitation then a mail will not be sent to vendor to respond to the bid.

Am I correct? If not please correct me.

Why I am asking this is, I was asked to check if bidding is installed on a SRM server as they want to check the bidding functionality. After checking, I noticed that someone played with that Dev box and created some Bid Invitations from Sourcing cockpit and all bids are in Held status. But I could not find "Process Bid Invitations" link in Purchaser menu. That could be because of not adjusting the menu for Purchaser role. I did not check in depth.

Also client wants to create Bid invitation manually without SC. For this "Process Bid Invitations" link is necessary through which a manual Bid invitation can be created.So I got a doubt whether Bidding is Licensed. If so what is the indication.

Can you tell me what part of bidding functionality that I cannot perform without Bidding license.

Points are awarded for this thread.

Thanks

Jagdish

[Former Member]

Hi Jagdish,

As i told you, there is no limitation in term of system.

You can use Bidding Engine & test it.

But if you use it in a productive system, then you should pay the licence. It is like a shareware )

You are right about the role: you need to adapt the purchaser role to add BBP_BID_INV transaction.

About RFQ in status "Held": this is normal. When creating RFQ from the SOCO, some data is retrieved from the selected SC items, but you must complete the RFQ (add bidders, documents...) before publishing it.

RFQ are never published automatically from the SOCO.

in SRM 5.0, navigation has been enhanced so you can continue to process the newly created RFQ from SOCO transaction, instead of having to quit SOCO and launch BBP_BID_INV transaction.

Rgds

Christophe

[Former Member]

Christophe

I observed one strange thing that some of the Bid invitations were seen in published state.

Is it possible that Bid invitations get published once it is created through SOCO?

Checked the roles of Purchaser and BBP_BID_INV transaction was not assigned to any of these roles.

I wonder how bid invitation could be published and PO was created without BBP_BID_INV transaction assigned to purchaser. Is it possible with SRM 4.0 (SRM server 500)?

Regards

Jagdish

[former_member218196]

License concerning usage of bidding engine is a certain percentage of total spend of company (even if this spend is not done via SRM)

Of course this is the theory

BR

[Former Member]

Hi Jagdish,

this is not possible.

You say that PO were also created: is it from a winning Bid (in that case the user should have used BBP_BID_INV, and supplier "Submit Bid" transaction), or directly from SOCO ?

Rgds

Christophe