Name: Configuring Bid Comparison Reports for Guided Sourcing Events in SAP Ariba Sourcing
Uploaded: 2025-12-3
Duration: 313 s
Description: Watch this video to see a demonstration on how to configure and run the Bid Comparison Report within a guided sourcing event in SAP Ariba Sourcing. See how to access this report within a sourcing project and review its attributes.

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<div><div><div><div><div>Watch this video to see a demonstration on how to configure and run the Bid Comparison Report within a guided sourcing event in SAP Ariba Sourcing. See how to access this report within a sourcing project and review its attributes.</div></div></div></div></div>

Configuring Bid Comparison Reports for Guided Sourcing Events in SAP Ariba Sourcing

This video will review the procedure for configuring an Excel bid comparison report that shows the values of terms, formulas, item rank, percentage differences from the lead bid, and supplier responses to your questions. You can run a bid comparison report when at least one participant response is available for a guided sourcing event. You can configure the report to include only the information that is useful to you when you are deciding which suppliers should receive an award. The report lets you easily compare the values of numeric terms that you have chosen to see rolled up or summed in the section summary across all suppliers. To perform this procedure, open your guided sourcing event. Here we have a closed event with responses. On the Allocate Awards panel or from the items that need quotes panel on the monitor event page for open events, choose the download icon with the downward pointing arrow and then bid comparison report. You will see two tabs, items and participants and report configuration. On the items and participants tab, choose items, lots, and participants for the report. For participants, you can choose all, incumbents, non-excluded participants, participants who submitted a response, participants whose bids are worse than the lead bid by a percentage you specify, or you can choose specific participants. The information on the items and participants tab isn't saved in the report configuration because you choose this information each time you run the report. Only the information on the report configuration tab is saved. On the report configuration tab, under terms, choose the terms to export in the report, and you can drag and drop a term to change its order in the report. You can use the row and column radio buttons to choose the axis on which you want to have terms aligned on the report spreadsheet. Column is selected by default. Note that the roll-up functionality is not available when you choose to display terms in rows. Under roll-up, choose the terms to roll up in section and event totals. For example, savings and extended price. Under highlight, you can choose to highlight lead bid price, lead bid total, excluded participant, and missing price in the report. You can restrict lead bid total to bids of participants with 100% participation to view participants who bid on every item or lot in the event. You can select different initial and submitted values to highlight terms or questions where the buyer adds an initial value and the supplier gives a different value when submitting their response. You can also choose a color to use for highlighting. If you select the highlight customization link, a page is displayed where you can select terms or questions for which you want to add highlight customization based on conditions that you can set. Under sorting participants, you can drag and drop the criteria to choose their sort order in the report. For example, to have the participants sorted first by name, then by item participation, then by event level total. Under report summary, you can include the percentage difference from the lead bid total, either for participants with 100 % participation or without it. You can also include the item participation percentage. You can select include summary section to add a summary section at the top of the report spreadsheet. Choose the "select items and questions to be shown in summary section" and "select terms to be shown in summary section" links to select the items, questions, and terms that are displayed in the summary. Note that the include summary section functionality is only available when rows is selected under terms. Under additional configuration, you can include item rank, percentage difference from lead bid and supplier responses to your questions. If the event uses multiple currencies, you can include the participant bidding currency. When you select "include questions," you have the option, to add the questions to the same sheet in the report or to a new sheet called questions. When you select the "Create Header Information Sheet" checkbox, a new sheet called the "header sheet" is added to the report that contains the project name, event name, publish date, time, and close date. When the "Include Supplier Participation Summary" checkbox is selected, a supplier participation report is added to the report spreadsheet above the terms and questions that lists the suppliers that were invited and their participation status. When the "Include product questionnaires" checkbox is selected, a product questionnaire sheet is added to the report containing product questionnaires in the order in which those items appear on the sourcing event. The final step would be to choose export. The save configuration pop-up appears, allowing you to save the report configuration with the name. If you don't change the name in the save configuration pop-up, the existing report configuration is updated. If you change the name, the changes are saved under the new configuration name. You might have to save or close one report before opening a new one. Open the report when it becomes available. Please consult our product documentation and user guides for additional information on bid comparison reports in guided sourcing.