The OSD E.Tendering System is a powerfull B2B e-business system that allows companies of all sizes to buy their goods, process electronically all documents associated with a transaction and provide a range of value added services that enhance trading partner relationships.


Features of the System

• Real time exchange of information & transactions in truly interactive environment.
• Complements existing corporate IT initiatives
• Bridges IT gap between large organizations and SMB trading partners.
• No major investments in hardware or software.
• Cost-effective means for SMBs to experience the value of e-business.
• Extremely easy to use, browser based system.
• Built on Microsoft Visual Studio, ASP.NET and SQL Server. Easily extensible to meet all your customization needs.
• Easy supplier registration process (web based)
• Suppliers will be able to download tender documents
• Web Based Console for all administration tasks including Easy configuration of user and customer accounts and privileges and approval workflow.
• Built in Approval Workflow, easily configurable via browser - users can create an online tender and this will be routed via an approval workflow process before the tender is published to suppliers.
• Assign creation and response viewing / approval privileges to different sets of users - The system can be configured in such a way that tender creation and tender response viewing rights are assigned to different users.
• Web based management of all tender responses and vendor selection process.
• Automatically convert a winning bid into a purchase order that is customized to replicate your corporate stationery.
• Easily select suppliers from list or post as a public tender to the entire supplier community.
• The system will support dynamic bidding in various formats as listed below:
• Supports Sealed Bids - The system can be configured to hold all tender responses in a secure database until a pre-determined date and time. It can further be configured to simulate a tender committee by providing a separate log-in to view "sealed" tender responses to the head of the tender committee.
• Supports open bids - The system can allow an open tender, where each supplier can see the competitor's price and therefore lower his own price to the lowest possible levels in order to win the tender.


• Create a tender with or without pre-qualification process. Assign basis points to each question and let the system generate aggregate points for each supplier. Pre-Qualifications can also be routed through an approval workflow.
• Create complex tenders using the Tender Questions Options. Assign basis points to each question and let the system generate aggregate points for each supplier.
• Supports multiple attachments in the tender and the tender response.
• Archive all items and generate various reports from the SQL Database. Can easily be integrated to Crystal Reports
• Security: Multilevel application access control with powerful audit trail feature. Data integrity is provided by using SSL encryption during data transfer between the browser and the server as well as while data is stored in the database.
• One of the key benefits of our e-tendering system is that it is a ready to go solution and does not have to be developed. The user interface can easily be customized and configuration to your business process is a very simple task using the browser based administration.

Benefits to Vendors
• Ensures Savings in marketing costs / distributor margins.
• Allows vendors to access hitherto inaccessible buyers.
  
  Benefits to Buyers
• Dynamic Bidding helps achieve significant reductions in costs
• Access to a large number of vendors.
• A tool for efficient price discovery complementing the direct negotiation process.


Applicability
• High value, large volume goods.
• Capital goods.
• Direct Materials / MRO items.
• Periodical rate contracts.