Manual scenarios
A manual scenario allows you to award specific lots or items to individual suppliers and split the award of a lot or item by percentage or quantity among multiple suppliers. A manual scenario is useful if your awarding decision is fairly obvious. For large and complex events where the awarding isn't easy to determine, you can use an optimization scenario.
You can enter award allocation amounts directly on the award page, or upload allocations from a spreadsheet. You can use bid analysis to analyze, sort, and filter bids, and then create a manual scenario from the results.
How to create a manual scenario
- From any of the following locations, select the event for which you want to award the lots or line items:
- For you → Recently viewed
- For you → Summary → Review responses
- Navigate to the Award Scenarios panel and select the Scenario Maker tab. The Award Scenarios panel shows cards for existing scenarios, including standard optimization scenarios provided by SAP Ariba, such as Best Bid.
- Select the Add new (+) icon to the right of the scenario cards.
- Enter a name for the scenario.
- Optional: Enter a description for the scenario.
- Choose Done.
- In the Allocate awards panel, enter the allocation values for each lot or line item by percentage or quantity. Use the drop-down to choose to allocate by Percentage or Quantity and enter the values for each supplier.
- Optional: Choose Compare scenario and select two or more scenarios that you want to compare.
- Choose the scenario you want to award by selecting the corresponding scenario card.
- Select Award.
- Choose whether to send email notifications to participants who are getting awards and to participants who aren't getting awards.
- Select Confirm.