The history of the internal release notes can be found here.
Sprint 126 (March 9th 2023)
User Groups - BPM
Why
Company Admins would like to enable access to BPMs which are relevant to a specific user group only.
Quite useful for organizations who have different procedures for different departments.
What
Assign one or more user groups to a concrete BPM.
This new “assign” functionality is available for BPMs on Organization level only, i.e. visible in the Organization Profile > Modules > Tender Management > Business Process Management
The Business Process Management functionality on the System Configuration level does NOT support this new “assign” functionality.
How
In the list of BPMs add a new column called “Assigned to” - it will show:
User group name - the name of the concrete group assigned to this BPM
All users - default case for all existing BPMs, i.e. all buyers may use this BPM
N user groups - in case the BPM is assigned to more than one user group
In the list of BPMs add a new functionality to assign user groups. These are the two options to do that:
From the 3-dots menu on each BPM - option “Assign”
On mouseover the button “ASSIGN” appears
The assign functionality happens inside the window
Only members from the assigned group(s) will be able to use that BPM when creating a new tender.
MFA - by text/SMS + don’t ask me again
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How
Linear price scale formula
Why
The main reason for implementation is that users are able to use this formula in Negometrix3. This formula, in Negometrix3 known as the Weighted Factor method, allows users to determine the range of prices the suppliers can submit.
What
This formula works similarly to Negometrix3, where the weighted price is added to the weighted quality. The only difference is that the P/Q ratio is not set on the highest level, but is determined by the points that are assigned to both quality and price.
How
The buyer can set this formula by default in the BPM, can select this formula in the assistant, or can select it in the round settings. When this formula is chosen, there will always be an additional field that the buyer needs to fill out. These include the range of prices, and whether we allow the supplier to submit a price outside the range.
❗ Note that it is also possible to click on the arrows-icon. This will switch the highest price score with the lowest, in the rare case of a higher price being ‘better’ and should therefore receive more points.
This blue box can be found in the round settings, but can also be found in the price element. These boxes should mirror, so the settings will always be similar. We decided to have two places because we want to prevent buyers from searching for this important setting.
If (one of) the checkboxes are checked, it means that the supplier is able to submit a price higher and/or lower than set. This will change the range accordingly. So if the range was first from €250 til €600, and a supplier submits with €700, the formula will calculate with the range €250 until €700.
Suppliers will always see the range that is set by the buyer. This can be seen in the example below. They will not be able to submit outside this range.
Export all offers answers
Why
Until now, customers can only compare the evaluation results of the offers. We’ve often heard that they also want to compare the offer answers. Our research shows us, that this comparison mainly is done outside our platform. We therefore decided to skip the comparison in the UI, and provide an Excel export directly.
What
We created a new button in the Offer menu, called “Export answers”.
How
Small changes
In this release, the following small changes have been implemented:
Bug Fixes
In this release, ?? bugs have been resolved. Please find below a list of the noteworthy bugs:
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