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Excluding a Supplier From an RFQ Analysis

If appropriate, you can exclude one or more of the supplier bids from the analysis. Because one of the goals of purchasing is to limit the number of suppliers dealt with, excluding a supplier’s bid from the analysis can help with this goal.

For example, after running the total cost and number 1 rankings analyses, you can see that suppliers A and D are both at the bottom of the list. To get a more accurate comparison of the other suppliers, at this point you can decide to remove the A and D bids from further analysis.

After excluding these suppliers, the number 1 rankings analysis is now:

Supplier	Rank	Number of Resources with the Lowest Price	Total Cost of Bid
C	1	105	$10,000.00
B	2	95	$11,000.00
A	3	20	$12,000.00
D	4	10	$13,000.00

At this point, you can see that supplier C is ranked number 1 for both total cost and number 1 resources. You might now decide to award the entire RFQ to supplier C or to do a more detailed analysis of each resource.

This topic explains how to exclude a supplier from an RFQ analysis. If necessary, you can later re-include the supplier in the analysis.

To Exclude a Supplier

1.	Open the RFQ.

2.	Select the Analysis view, and then the Supplier Ranking tab.

3.	Right-click the supplier that you want to exclude and select Exclude From Ranking. The supplier is crossed out, and their ranking information is removed from the table.

4.	To re-include the supplier in the analysis, right-click the supplier and select Include in Ranking.