February 2023

Reaching a consensus when you're drawing on very different perspectives requires well facilitated discussion. Our latest additions to the Consensus Scoring functionality have been designed to draw attention the areas where discussion is needed and provide easy access to all the information to support the conversation.

Feature 1 - Identify discrepancies in individual scoring quickly

Significant differences in the scoring against criteria are now highlighted (using an amber exclamation icon, see below) so you can raise them as discussion items.

By default, a discrepancy is recorded against any criteria where the highest score minus the lowest score exceeds 40%. For example, if Evaluator A provided a score of 85% and Evaluator B provided a score of 15% on the same question, then the range is 70% and the criteria will be recorded as having a discrepancy. 

Note: You can change the discrepancy threshold in your settings.

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Feature 2 - Summary table

Evaluating multiple respondents across multiple criteria is a complicated business. Our new summary table makes it easier to digest the key information at a glance. 

Displayed on the page are the average score for all criteria across all respondents. And included in the view are icons to identify the highest scorer for each criteria and discrepancies in scoring.

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Feature 3 - Rankings 

You can now clearly see where a supplier's evaluation score ranks in relation to the other respondents. You can view their ranking for each of the criteria, and an overall rank is calculated and displayed at the bottom of the table.

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Feature 4 - Relevant documentation linked for easy reference 

Documents submitted with supplier responses are now available in the consensus review process so you can easily refer to details for confirmation/review. 

The documents are linked from each of the criteria and able to be downloaded. 

Feature 5 - Updating individual scores

The discussion during consensus scoring will quite likely shift some perspectives, and this will need to be reflected in their individual score. We've enabled editing so changes can be made in these circumstances. 

Important note! 

Existing customers of Advanced Evaluations will remain using the classic scoring functionality until it's switched to the updated version. You can do this in your system settings (see GIF below).

Evaluations that have been completed using a particular method will continue to be represented in the format of the method used if a switch has been made. 

NEW Supplier Discovery in Procurement Planning

Procurement Planning customers that use our Go-To-Market module for sourcing quotes can now search for and discover suppliers to include in their plan. Once the plan is approved, it's used to auto-create an RFx in Go-To-Market with all of the pre-selections, including suppliers. 

The GIF below shows how the supplier selection process works. This step can be skipped if the buyer is not ready to make a decision. 

The second GIF shows how the supplier data is transferred from a plan to populate the RFx in Go-To-Market. These pre-selections can be changed in Go-To-Market and suppliers can be removed or added as desired.