Evaluation Input

Evaluation Input is an assessment of a given supplier by a given evaluator for a given period of time. Evaluation inputs provided by one or more evaluators within a specified period of time are then used to calculate the final 'Evaluation' of the supplier.

Evaluation Input: Attributes

• Evaluation for

  The business partner for whom the evaluation input is being created. For instance, if evaluation input creation is initiated by calling action 'Evaluation Input' from a catalog of suppliers, the supplier from whom the action has been called will be assigned in the 'Evaluation for' field.

• Evaluator

  The person performing the evaluation. By default, the currently logged in person is used. (Note that the user must have corresponding permissions - see 'Supplier Manager Settings'.)

• Experience From / Experience To

  The period of time for which the evaluation is made. The values are pre-filled automatically on the basis of the date of evaluation input creation and the evaluated supplier graduation.

  • Experience From = date of evaluation input creation
  • Experience To = date of evaluation input creation + evaluation period corresponding to 'Graduation' of the evaluated supplier (for instance 6 months for an graduation-A supplier).

  One evaluator is normally not allowed to make more than one evaluation input within one evaluation period. The only situation when this is possible is when a specific contract or project is selected in fields 'According to Contract' or 'According to Project', thereby narrowing down the context of the evaluation input to the selected contract/project.

• Comments

  Field for optional additional comments to the evaluation input.

• Average input (%)

  Average value calculated from provided competency evaluations inputs (i.e. 'Evaluation Input Items').

Evaluation Input: Reference Catalogs

• Competencies

  List of competencies evaluated in the evaluation input. Each of these competencies represents one evaluation input item based on one of the evaluation competencies defined for the object type (and optionally also subset) of the evaluated object. (In the context of Supplier Management, these are evaluable competencies defined for 'Business Partner' of 'Supplier' type.) Note that the presence of defined competencies is also governed by the 'Input' attribute of the given competency, see topic 'Evaluable Competency' for more information.

  When a supplier is evaluated by the evaluator for the first time, evaluation values in column 'Your Evaluation' are automatically prefilled with '6-Unsatisfactory' to spur the evaluator to provide "real", non-default values. In case of a subsequent evaluation, values from the last evaluation by the given person are used.

  To change the 'Your Evaluation' value, double-click the competency to open it for editing and specify the value in the editor. Comments in column 'Your Comment" can be provided by inplace editing.

  Context menu action 'Show Configuration of the Competency' on an evaluation input item opens the the source evaluable competency in the evaluable competency editor (in read-only mode).

• Targeted Measures

  Reference catalog of targeted measures associated with the evaluation input.

Evaluation input actions

See topic 'Finalize Evaluation Input' for more information.