To access the Monitor Supplier Activities page:
From the Negotiations Home page, click the negotiation number link for the negotiation you wish to monitor.
On the negotiation summary page, select Monitor Supplier Activities from the Actions menu and click Go.
The Monitor Supplier Activities page shows detailed information on all suppliers participating in a negotiation. If there are 24 hours or less before the negotiation closes, the countdown clock at the top of the page display the time remaining. If staggered closing is in effect, the clock shows the time until the next line closes.
For each supplier, the page shows both supplier and contract level information. By default, both levels of information are displayed when you access the page although you can hide the contact level information by clicking the Hide link (to redisplay the contact level information, click the Show link).
For each supplier, the supplier-level information shows:
The supplier name (linked to the Supplier Details page).
Whether the supplier was explicitly invited to the negotiation.
Whether the supplier has been locked out of the negotiation.
The contact-level information shows:
the name of that supplier's contact who is participating in the negotiation (linked to the Contact Details page).
The site from which the contact responded (if the contact is associated with a supplier site).
the number of the contact's response (linked to the View Response page)
The status of the contact's response. Values are either Active of Draft (Draft responses have no number in the Response Number column).
The time of that contact's last activity.
The last activity performed by that contact.
Preventing Supplier Participation
Since suppliers do not always have to be explicitly invited to participate in a negotiation, there may be occasions when you have no control over which suppliers decide to access your negotiation. This can lead to situations in which you decide to exclude a supplier from any further participation in an ongoing negotiation.
For example, you may have a business practice that states that all participating suppliers must submit a response within a specified length of time. This prevents suppliers who have no intention of submitting a response from monitoring the responses from other participants to obtain competitive information. In either of these cases, you may wish to exclude that supplier from further participation in the negotiation.
To lock a supplier from further participation in a negotiation:
On the Monitor Supplier Activities page, locate the row displaying the information for that supplier.
Click the Lock icon at the end of the row.
On the resulting Warning page, click No to cancel the lockout, or click Yes to prevent further participation by this supplier.
A confirmation page verifies that the supplier has been locked out. On the Live Console page, a lock out icon appears beside the supplier's entry in the Supplier's table.
Once the supplier has been blocked, any action in progress is disallowed and at the next page refresh, the supplier user receives a message that access to that negotiation is no longer possible.