Service Update 1.19.0.0

Released on 6 October 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• To improve system security, invisible reCAPTCHA has been added to the login page, the forgot password page, buyer registration page, and vendor registration page.
• Improves the clarity of tooltips in all sections where documents can be uploaded, describing that the following characters are not supported in document names: \" # % & * : < > ? \ / { } ~ | ' + = ;
• Improves the clarity of error messages that are displayed when users upload documents with unsupported special characters.
• Fixes an issue with approval activity templates which previously failed to send notification emails to users indicated in the ‘Notify Activity’ and ‘Notify Activity Setting’.

Quotation

• In the Quotation Header, the ‘Request on Behalf’ field has been added to allow Quotation creators to indicate for whom the Quotation is raised for (if any). The added user is only added for the record and will not be given permission to view or edit the Quotation.
• If a Quotation is raised from an approved Purchase Requisition (PR), the 'Quotation Requester' field will now be auto-filled with the Quotation creator’s name, instead of the PR’s requester name. Instead, the PR’s requester name will be indicated in the 'Request on Behalf' field.

Purchase Order (PO)

• Fixes an issue which prevented users from creating Purchase Orders from approved Purchase Requisitions that did not list a recommended vendor.
• Fixes an issue with Purchase Orders (POs) created from Contracts, which previously listed the PO Requester Name based on the PO creator instead of the Contract creator.
• For Purchase Orders created from Purchase Requisitions with 'Purchase Option = Write-in', the following fields in the PO Items tab will no longer be locked: Quantity, UOM, Unit Price.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

General

• To improve system security, invisible reCAPTCHA has been added to the login page, the forgot password page, buyer registration page, and vendor registration page.
• Improves the clarity of tooltips in all sections where documents can be uploaded, describing that the following characters are not supported in document names: \" # % & * : < > ? \ / { } ~ | ' + = ;
• Improves the clarity of error messages that are displayed when users upload documents with unsupported special characters.

e-Quotation

• The Quotation Item tab now displays an additional column for Discounted Amount, which displays the value of discount given for each line item.

e-Tender

• The Pricing Summary tab now displays an additional column for Discounted Amount, which displays the value of discount given for each line item.

Service Update 1.18.0.0

Released on 4 September 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• In Application Settings, Admin users can now specify which Vendor statuses are allowed to participate in purchase requisition, sourcing, award and post-award modules. Based on the settings selected, Vendors can be selected in specific modules even if their status is Draft, Registered, Returned, Rejected, Blacklisted or One-Off.
• If the Vendor Selection Settings are changed after a Vendor is invited or awarded (e.g. Blacklisted Vendors are no longer allowed), the Vendor may no longer be able to participate in sourcing, award or post-award activities. In this situation, the System Admin can either change the vendor’s registration status to an allowed status, or amend the Vendor Selection Settings to include that vendor’s registration status.
• Fixes an issue where users were unable to upload documents larger than 52MB, even though Application Settings allows file sizes up to 100MB.
• The Delegation Listing page is now organized into separate tabs by module. Admin and Procurement Officers can view all Delegations created by all users in the organization, while Procurement Users can only view Delegations created by themselves.
• When a new Delegation is set up by Admin or Procurement Officers, both delegators and delegatees will be informed via notification email. If the Delegation is set up directly by the delegator, only the delegatee will receive the notification email.
• Delegations can no longer be edited once they are saved. However, they can be inactivated. Delegations will be automatically inactivated once the end date has passed.

Tender

• For Open Tenders, the Bidder List tab will be auto-populated with all Vendors who match the Product/Service Category as well as the Vendor Selection Settings during and after the ITB stage. Vendors who do not match these criteria will no longer be able to bid for the Open Tender.
• Admin users can now specify whether Procurement Officers should be restricted from viewing bidder documents for tenders they are not involved in. If this restriction is turned on in Application Settings, each Tender Committee will include a compulsory Procurement Executive role to specify which Procurement Officers can view the bidder documents for that Tender.
• In the Tender Committee tab, restrictions have been loosened to allow Committee members to be changed even after Tender Plan approval, up until the respective evaluations are completed. This can be done by Admin users, Procurement Officers and the Tender Requester. Changes to Committee Members after Tender Plan approval will be recorded in the Activity Log.
• If Tender Committee members are changed during the Evaluation stage, notification emails will be sent to both the unassigned and newly assigned members.
• For split evaluation tenders, the Technical Lead and Technical Committee are no longer allowed to view commercial documents uploaded by bidders.
• Fixes an issue where Tenders using BOM templates displayed the quantity and price of parent items as “0.00” in the Pricing History and Award tabs.

Reverse Auction

• Fixes a bug which allowed more than 1 bidder to be recommended for Reverse Auctions during the Pending Recommendation stage.

Purchase Order (PO)

• Fixes an issue where Purchase Orders created from Tenders with BOM Templates faced long load times during creation and deletion.
• Fixes an issue where Purchase Orders created from Tenders with BOM Templates fail to populate the line items in the PO Items tab.
• The specifications for which fields are mandatory or editable in Purchase Orders and Variation Orders have been updated based on the Purchase Order source (standalone PO or PO based on PR / Tender / Quotation / Price Agreement / Normal Contract).

Updates for Vendor Accounts

General

• The system will now check your vendor registration status when you participate in sourcing, award and post-award activities. If your company is no longer allowed to perform a certain action based on your registration status, you can contact the Buyer’s System Admin for more details.

Company Profile

• When uploading documents to the Company Profile, documents will now be uploaded immediately after they are selected, instead of waiting for users to click on the Save button.

e-Tender

• For Open Tenders, if your company does not match the Tender’s Product/Service Category, you will only be able to view but not bid for the Tender.
• If a new Open Tender is available, you will now receive invitation emails to participate in the Tender if your company matches the Tender’s Product/Service Category.
• If you wish to clear discounts from all Tender line items, you can now do so by inserting the value “0” into the lump sum discount field.
• Tender Closing Date notification emails have been updated to include more information.

e-Quotation

• If you wish to clear discounts from all Quotation line items, you can now do so by inserting the value “0” into the lump sum discount field.

Reverse Auction

• Reverse Auction Closing Date notification emails have now been added.

Service Update 1.17.0.0

Released on 3 August 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• The Vendor registration approval workflow is now configurable. By default, the Procurement Officer role will be set as the approver.
• Reminder Email Settings now allow Buyer Admins to configure reminder emails for Vendor Performance Evaluations. Reminder emails can be sent up to 2 times, and can be configured to be sent a specified number of days after a Vendor Performance Evaluation is generated, or before a specific date. If the latter option is chosen, Admins can choose to combine multiple performance evaluation records into a single email per evaluator to avoid spam.

Quotation

• Currency has been added as a required field in the Quotation Header. All Quotation Items will share the same currency as specified in the Quotation Header.
• Adds a restriction such that Quotations cannot be created from Approved Purchase Requisition Items that have already been sourced in another Quotation, Tender or Direct Negotiation.

Tender

• The Approved PR listing tab is now added in the Tender and Direct Negotiation modules.
• You can now create Tenders and Direct Negotiations from Approved Purchase Requisitions (PR). Some of the fields, such as the title and pricing summary items, will be auto-filled based on the linked PR. Note that only 1 Quotation, Tender or Direct Negotiation can be conducted for each approved PR item.
• For Tenders and Direct Negotiations, Currency has been added as a required field in the Tender Brief tab. All Pricing Summary Items will share the same currency as specified in the Tender Brief.
• Fixes an issue in the Pricing Summary tab where uploaded BOM templates only display the standard default columns, but not any additional custom columns and their values.
• Open Tenders will now display the Bidder List tab during the Invitation to Bid stage. All registered Vendors who match the Tender’s Product/Service Category will be listed along with their bid status (draft / submitted / no response).
• If Application Settings allow Vendors to request tender resubmissions subject to the Buyer’s approval, these resubmission request approvals including remarks will now be logged as part of each Tender’s Activity Log and Approval Log.

Reverse Auction

• Currency has been added as a required field in the Tender Brief tab. The Pricing Summary Item will share the same currency as specified in the Tender Brief.

Purchase Order

• The PO Items tab now displays the Available Quantity for each item, indicating the balance quantity that has not been fulfilled yet as part of a Delivery Order.

Invoice

• If the delivery order(s) linked to an invoice are not approved yet, an error message will now be displayed during invoice approval to inform the approver that invoice approval cannot be performed as the linked delivery orders are not approved yet.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

e-Tender

• Fixes an issue where lump sum discounts could not be given if ITB = ‘no’ for one or more items.
• Fixes an issue where after a percentage lump sum discount is given for an e-Tender conducted in a foreign currency, the equivalent discount amount is displayed in MYR instead of in the foreign currency.
• Improves the clarity and user-friendliness of discount calculations.
• After submitting a request for tender resubmission, the request and the reason submitted will now also be displayed in the tender activity log.
• Fixes an issue where Vendors were limited to just 1 tender resubmission request per tender if Buyers required approval before resubmission. Vendors can now request to make further amendments to their tender bid after the 1st tender resubmission is completed as long as the Tender Closing Date has not passed, subject to the Buyer’s approval.

e-Quotation

• Fixes an issue where lump sum discounts could not be given if ITB = ‘no’ for one or more items.
• Fixes an issue where after a percentage lump sum discount is given for an e-Quotation conducted in a foreign currency, the equivalent discount amount is displayed in MYR instead of in the foreign currency.
• Improves the clarity and user-friendliness of discount calculations.

e-Invoice

• Email notifications for invoice rework or rejection will now include the approver’s remarks.

Service Update 1.16.0.0

Released on 10 July 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• You can now deactivate Vendor Accounts that are associated with your company. Once deactivated, the Vendor and their records (bids, POs, DOs, etc) can no longer be selected when creating new records.
• Fixes an issue where attached documents were not supported if the file extension contained uppercase characters.

Quotation

• Vendor discounts are now supported in Quotations. Vendors can give discounts as a percentage or as a fixed amount, which can be applied as a lump sum or to individual line items. Purchase orders, contracts and price comparison reports created from Quotations that include discounts will also display the discount values as read-only fields.
• Fixes an issue where the Clarification tab became hidden after the Quotation Opening Stage.

Tender

• Vendor discounts are now supported in Tenders. Vendors can give discounts as a percentage or as a fixed amount, which can be applied as a lump sum or to individual line items. Purchase orders and price comparison reports created from Tenders that include discounts will also display the discount values as read-only fields.
• The Tender Committee tab now includes an info (i) icon which displays a popup describing the roles and responsibilities of the various tender committee members.
• When Tenders are extended during the Tender Opening stage, the status for bidders who have already submitted their bids will be updated to ‘To Resubmit’. Bidders will be notified via email and are allowed to resubmit their bids up till the extended deadline.
• During Tender Evaluation, unanswered questions will now be outlined in red to help evaluators identify which evaluation questions have yet to be answered.
• When Tenders are pending approval to proceed to the award stage (after Bidder Recommendations have been submitted), approvers can now click on the ‘View Evaluation Score Sheet’ button to view the detailed breakdown of the evaluation scores for all bidders.

Reverse Auction

• Fixes an issue in Reverse Auctions which use a foreign currency, in which the base currency was always displayed, even when a foreign currency had been selected as the bidding currency.

Purchase Order

• Restrictions have been added to the PO Target Delivery Date. The target delivery date must be after the PO Start Date, and cannot be after the PO End Date.

Invoice

• Fixes an issue in Invoices created from Contracts, which previously did not allow users to add delivery orders to the invoices.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

General

• Fixes an issue where attached documents were not supported if the file extension contained uppercase characters.
• The Sales and Finance roles are now discontinued. All Vendor users will now have the same access permissions equivalent to a Vendor Admin.

e-Tender

• Discounts are now supported in e-Tenders. You can choose to give discounts as a percentage or as a fixed amount, which can be applied as a lump sum or to individual line items.
• During the Pending Negotiation stage, notification emails for tender resubmission have been updated to include more detailed action items. You will also be allowed to upload revised tender documents in the Document Submission tab during tender resubmission.
• In the event that you have submitted a bid for an e-Tender, and the e-Tender is extended during the Tender Opening stage, your status will be updated to ‘To Resubmit’ instead of remaining as ‘Submitted’. You will be notified via email and are allowed to resubmit their bids up till the extended deadline.

e-Quotation

• Discounts are now supported in e-Quotations. You can choose to give discounts as a percentage or as a fixed amount, which can be applied as a lump sum or to individual line items. Fixes an issue where Vendors failed to receive notification emails when their clarification question is answered privately, or when a clarification has been published publicly in a Quotation they are participating in.

e-Fulfilment

• You can now create Delivery Orders based on published Contracts that are awarded to you.

Service Update 1.15.0.0

Released on 12 June 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• In all modules, the 'Quantity' field now supports up to 2 decimal places. This is to support UOMs such as kilograms, litres, etc.
• In the login page, registration page and forgot password page, the following special characters are no longer allowed due to security reasons: < > { }

Vendor

• In the Vendor Listing page, you can now view, sort and filter Vendors by Sub-Categories.
• Each time a vendor's company profile is returned or rejected, any remarks inserted will be logged in the Vendor's Company Profile under the Activities Log.

Quotation

• In the Quotation Header section, the 'Currency' field is now removed.
• In the Quotation Items section, the following fields have been added for each line item: 'Currency', 'Unit Price'.
• When viewing the Material Price Bank by Material Items, the Quotation Listing will now filter for only the quotations where ITB = 'Yes' or 'Alternative'. The listings can be further filtered by ITB status.
• Price Charts will now display only the data points for quotations where ITB = 'Yes' for the specific material item.
• Fixes an issue where new quotation plans could not be created if approval workflows were not required.

e-Bidding

• During the Negotiation stage, users now have the option to request for the recommended bidder to resubmit their bid.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

General

• In all modules, the 'Quantity' field now supports up to 2 decimal places. This is to support UOMs such as kilograms, litres, etc.
• In the login page, registration page and forgot password page, the following special characters are no longer allowed due to security reasons: < > { }

e-Quotation

• In the Quotation Header section, the 'Currency' field is now removed.
• In the Quotation Item section, the following fields have been added for each line item: 'Intent to Bid', 'Justification', 'Currency'.

e-Bidding

• Buyers now have the option to request you to resubmit your bid if you are one of the recommended bidders during the Negotiation stage. If this occurs, you will be notified via email.
• The number of e-Bidding pending resubmission will be displayed on your Dashboard.
• The e-Bidding listing will allow you to filter by status = 'Pending Negotiation'. Clicking on the e-Bidding record will allow you to resubmit your bid by editing your bid amount, tax amount and justification in the Pricing Summary tab.

Service Update 1.14.0.0

Released on 22 May 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• Fixes several issues with notification emails for multi-level approval tasks and delegation tasks in the following modules: Tender, Purchase Order, Delivery Order, Invoice, and Vendor Performance. The errors fixed include approver names not displaying properly, approval delegatees not receiving notification emails, approval group members not receiving task cancellation emails when the approval task has been completed, and approvers receiving duplicated emails.
• For tasks with multi-level approval, the Activity Log now shows the approver name for each approval group, instead of just the final approver. This only applies to new approval tasks created after this Service Update.
• For tasks with Approval Logs, the approval history sub-tabs have been merged into a single Approval History Log for a more consolidated view. This applies to the following modules: Purchase Requisition, Tender, Direct Negotiation, Quotation, e-Bidding, Purchase Order, Delivery Order, Invoice, and Vendor Performance.
• For Quotations, Purchase Orders, Contracts, and Invoices, the position of the sub-tabs in the Document section will be adjusted so that ‘Attachments (External)’ appears first, followed by ‘Supporting Documents (Internal)’.
• Several error messages have been updated to be more descriptive and user-friendly.

Quotation

• Notification emails will now be sent to invited Vendors on the Quotation Start Date and 1 day before the Quotation End Date. This can be further configured in Application Settings.
• The Quotation Opening workflow will now be implemented once the Quotation End Date has been reached. This allows Quotation requestors to recommend Vendors, extend the Quotation, or cancel the Quotation. This also allows approver(s) to review and approve recommended Vendors for Quotations.
• During the 'Pending Recommendation' stage, Buyer users can now request Vendors to resubmit their e-Quotation. If the Vendor fails to resubmit by the due date, the prior Quotation will be regarded as the final submission.
• Quotation statuses have been revamped to reflect the new workflows described above. The updated statuses include Draft, Pending Quotation Plan Approved, Quotation Plan Reworked, Quotation Plan Approved, Quotation Plan Rejected, In Progress, Cancelled, Opening, Pending Recommendation, Pending Recommendation Request Approval, Pending Recommendation Approval, Awarded.

Tender

• Amended the formula used to calculate cost savings in the Award tab. The updated formula is Savings = Initial Price – Award Price.
• The ‘Supporting Document (Internal)’ sub-tab has been moved out of the Tender Document section to become an independent standalone section. This section allows users to upload supporting documents for internal reference (not visible to bidders).
• When Tender status is Awaiting Shortlisting Approval, delegatees can now approve shortlisting on behalf of delegators.
• During the Negotiation stage, Buyer users will no longer be able to submit price changes on behalf of vendors due to compliance reasons.
• In the Negotiation stage and Award stage, the ‘Total Added Values’ field has been renamed to ‘Intangible Value Adding.’ The ‘Total Added Values Amount (MYR)’ field is removed.
• Fixes an issue in the Award section where the Awarded Value and Savings (%) were displayed incorrectly if there was a price negotiation. Fixes an issue with Tender Extension where the extension of Tender Closing Date/Time was required to be at least 24 hours or more. This restriction has been removed. The Tender Approval Date in the Tender Brief will also be extended accordingly.

Purchase Order

• Purchase Orders and Contracts can now be raised from approved Quotations. When doing so, certain fields such as the Quotation Items will be auto-populated in the new PO or Contract.
• The ‘PO Date’ field has been replaced with ‘PO Start Date’. The ‘PO End Date’ field has also been added.
• In the Document tab, users can now choose whether to upload attachments for external viewing by Vendors, or for internal reference only. Users can also view attachments uploaded by Vendors.
• Fixes an issue in the PO submission section where the percentage allocated for each COA is calculated incorrectly. The ‘Original Budget’ field has also been removed.

Settings

• In Reminder Email Settings, admins can now customize when notification emails will be sent to Vendors regarding the end of the Invitation to Quotation stage (N days before Quotation End Date).
• In Application Settings for Quotations, Admins can now configure the minimum number of bidders and minimum number of submissions required per Quotation exercise. Admins can also configure whether approval is required for Quotation Plan submissions, extensions, cancellations, and recommendations.
• In Workflow Templates, Admins can now customize the approval workflows for Quotations.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

Tender

• When responding to an Invitation to Bid, instructions have been amended to make it easier to respond to the invitation (Accept/Decline).
• During the Negotiation stage, the ‘Intangible Value Adding’ is added to allow Vendors to describe any non-monetary benefits offered during negotiation.

Purchase Order

• Vendors can now view supporting documents uploaded by Buyers. Vendors can also upload attachments to share with Buyers.

Service Update 1.13.0.0

Released on 20 March 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• Certain attached documents can now be previewed in the web browser without first being downloaded. The document formats that are supported for the browser preview include "docx", "doc", "pdf", "txt", "xls", "xlsx", "ods", "bmp", "png", "gif", "jpg", "jpeg", "wmf", "emf", "tiff".
• In Tenders, Quotations, Contracts and Invoices, buyer users can now categorize attached documents as internal (for buyer users only) or external (for buyer and vendor users). Existing documents will be categorized as external by default. Buyers can preview, download, delete or switch the categorization of documents, while vendors can only preview or download documents.

Vendor

• When Vendors fill up their Financial Statement in their Company Profile, they now have the option to specify their financial statement type, select the financial year up to 5 years prior to the current year, as well as specify a reason if the financial statement type is stated to be ‘not applicable’. For existing Vendor Profiles, all Financial Statement Types will default to ‘Audited Financial Report’, and the Year field will be auto-populated based on the previously entered data.

Tender

• In the Pricing Summary tab, a link has been added to the Bill of Materials (BOM) Template Listing to make it easier for the Tender Requester or Tender Members to download and customize a BOM template for each Tender.

Invoice

• Invoices can now be created based on Contracts, not just based on Purchase Orders.

Settings

• In Approval Groups, Admins can now configure multi-level approval for vendor performance evaluations.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

General

• Attached documents can now be previewed in the web browser without first being downloaded. The supported document formats include "docx", "doc", "pdf", "txt", "xls", "xlsx", "ods", "bmp", "png", "gif", "jpg", "jpeg", "wmf", "emf", "tiff".

Company Profile

• When filling up your company’s Financial Statement in the Financial Information section, you now have the option to specify your financial statement type, select the financial year up to 5 years prior to the current year, as well as specify a reason if the financial statement type is stated to be ‘not applicable’.

Service Update 1.12.0.0

Released on 20 February 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

Vendor Performance

• Fixes an issue where the status of Vendor Performance Evaluations did not update correctly after they were successfully submitted.

Purchase Requisition

• Fixes an issue where Purchase Requisitions raised from published Contracts did not allow users to add new PR items.

Tender & e-Bidding

• In the Tender Committee tab, users can now specify the name and email address of the Tender Secretariat.

Purchase Order

• Fixes an issue where Purchase Orders could not be created from approved Purchase Requisitions.

Contract

• When performing changes to a Published Contract, the ‘Items’ checkbox has been renamed as ‘Contract Items’, and a tool tip has been added to guide users.

Settings

• In Application Settings, Admins can now specify the maximum file size and blocked file extensions for all documents uploaded by their users and Vendors. These restrictions will be applied across all modules in the WeManage system.
• Fixes an Issue in Evaluation Score Sheet Template where existing Evaluation Section Templates could not be imported into new Evaluation Score Sheet Templates.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

Tender & e-Bidding

• In the Tender Details tab, you can now view the name and email address of the Tender Secretariat, who will be the main contact person for a specific Tender or e-Bidding exercise.

Service Update 1.11.0.0

Released on 9 January 2023.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

General

• After clicking on the App Launcher (top left corner), the design of the navigation bar is now more compact to improve the organization of module.

Vendor Performance

• If multiple levels of approval are required for Vendor Performance Evaluation, 2nd level approvers and above will be able to view comments submitted by previous approvers.

Settings

• In Application Settings, Admins can now specify the weekends observed (I.e. Friday-Saturday or Saturday-Sunday). This will influence the appearance of calendars throughout the system, which will grey out the weekend.
• In Application Settings, Admin can now set how many levels of approval will be required for vendor performance evaluation.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

Home

• In the Help section, the tutorial videos have been updated and expanded to cover the entire end-to-end procurement process from signing up to submitting invoices.

Service Update 1.10.0.0

Released on 5 December 2022.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

Quotation

• When creating new Quotations, the system will validate that the Quotation End Date comes after the Clarification End Date.
• In the Vendor List tab, you are now required to invite at least one Vendor before the Quotation can be submitted.

Contract

• Fixes a previous issue in the Contract Execution tab where users were unable to apply Contract Execution Plan Templates.
• The Contract Items and Billing Milestone tabs will now display the sum for the following fields: Gross Amount, Tax Amount, Total Amount, Base Gross Amount, Base Tax Amount, Base Total Amount, Base Payment, Base Tax, and Base Total Payment.

Settings

• You can now download templates, create new records and upload data using Batch Import for the following settings – Material Category, Material Sub-Category, Evaluation Criteria Category/Sub-Category Template, Evaluation Section Template, and Evaluation Score Sheet Template.

General

• Documents uploaded into the system can no longer contain the following characters in the filename: # % & * : < > ? \ / { } ~ | ' + =. If these characters are detected in the filename, you will be prompted to rename and re-upload the document.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

Contract

• The Contract Items and Billing Milestone tabs now will now display the sum for the following fields: Gross Amount, Tax Amount, Total Amount, Base Gross Amount, Base Tax Amount, Base Total Amount, Base Payment, Base Tax, and Base Total Payment.

General

• Documents uploaded into the system can no longer contain the following characters in the filename: # % & * : < > ? \ / { } ~ | ' + =. If these characters are detected in the filename, you will be prompted to rename and re-upload the document.

Service Update 1.9.0.0

Released on 4 November 2022.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

Tender

• New Tenders will no longer include the sourcing method (RFI, RFP, RFQ, DN, EB, OT, RT) in the Tender No.. The new Tender No. format will be WM-xxxx-yyyy, where x is a running number, and y is the year the Tender is created in. Existing Tenders will not be affected.
• Open Tender and Restricted Tender are now merged as subsets of RFQ, RFP and RFI, and can be selected in the Tender Brief for new Tenders. The Open Tender and Restricted Tender tabs are now removed from the Tender Listing and Pending Tasks pages. NOTE: This change will not take effect if you have existing Open Tenders or Restricted Tenders submitted.
• eBidding and Direct Negotiation are no longer parked within the Tender module. They are now independent modules and can be accessed directly from the App Launcher.

Settings

• In Application Setting – Sourcing, Admins can now customize the Bidder Resubmission Method for Tenders. The settings supported include:
  • allowing only Buyers to trigger Tender Resubmission (default)
  • allowing Vendors to directly amend and resubmit Tenders
  • allowing Vendors to trigger a Tender Resubmission Request that requires approval
• In Application Setting – Sourcing, Admins can customize the people in charge (PIC) for Tender Resubmissions. The options include Chairperson, Procurement Officer, Tender Initiator, and Tender Opening Committee.
• Bill of Materials (BOM) Templates have received the following adjustments:
  • Column widths have been resized to improve readability
  • Default name of the Excel template has been changed to BOMTemplate_yyyymmddhhmm
  • The ‘Intent to Bid’ and ‘Justification’ columns have been moved to the right of the UOM column

Updates for Vendor Accounts

e-Tender

• In Tender Pricing Summary, if there are child items parked under parent items, the total price for each parent item will be auto summed based on the price of its child items.
• In the Bill of Materials (BOM) Template, you are no longer required to fill in the Quantity, UOM and Intent to Bid fields for Parent Items (I.e. items with Parent ID = 0)
• After submitting a Tender, you may be allowed to directly amend and resubmit the Tender, or raise a Tender Resubmission Request to the Buyer. These options depend on the Buyer’s settings, and are not available by default.

Service Update 1.8.0.0

Released on 15 October 2022.

Updates for Buyer Accounts

Home

• The landing page has been redesigned to be more intuitive, including a Getting Started Section with quick links to key areas for setup.

Purchase Requisition (PR)

• You can now duplicate existing PRs by clicking on the Clone button in the PR Header, as long as PR duplication has been allowed in Application Settings.

Tender

• You can now duplicate existing Tender Plans for RFI, RFP and RFQ by clicking on the Clone button in the Tender Brief, as long as Tender duplication has been allowed in Application Settings.
• In the Tender Brief, there is now a limit of 4000 characters for the Description and Objective field.
• For Tender Committees, the 'Project Manager' field has been replaced with 'Tender Requester'. By default, this field is assigned to the user who created the Tender, but this can be reassigned by a System Admin.
• During Tender Preparation, the Evaluation Selection tab now display a hyperlink after an Evaluation Score Sheet is selected and saved. This allows you to edit the score sheet directly.
• For Tenders that are pending approval for extension or cancellation, the status in the Pending Task Listing will now be displayed as 'Pending Extension Approval' and 'Pending Cancellation Approval'. Previously, this was not reflected in the tender status and pending task list.
• In the Negotiation tab, shortcut buttons have been added to easily view each Vendors' Technical, Commercial and Compliance documents.
• In the Reports Tab, the Pricing Comparison Summary is now available. This allows users to compare overall bids for each Tender, in contrast to the Pricing Comparison report which compares prices for each material item.

Quotation

• You can now duplicate existing Quotations by clicking on the Clone button in the Quotation Header, as long as Quotation duplication has been allowed in Application Settings.
• In the Quotation Header, a tooltip has been added for the 'Product / Service Category' field.
• In the Documents tab, attachments can no longer be uploaded or removed unless the Quotation status is 'Draft'.

Purchase Order (PO)

• In the PO Listing, you can now filter for POs by status.
• In the PO Listing, all approved Purchase Requisitions (PR) will now be listed, including those without a Vendor.
• You can now create POs by selecting multiple PR Items, as long as they share the same PR No., currency and Vendor. PR Items without a Vendor can also be selected if they share the same PR No. and currency.
• In the PO Listing, the Published Contract tab now accurately displays the price for each item, instead of the overall contract price.
• In the PO Items tab, you can now edit the Material Item Code and UOM for each Material Item.
• When creating a PO from a PR, you are now allowed to edit the Unit Price and Quantity for each Material Item.
• You can now create standalone POs that are not linked to a PR, Tender or Contract by selecting 'Standalone' as the PO Creation Source in the PO Header.
• Once a PO is approved, you can no longer upload attachments in the Document tab.
• Before Vendors respond to an awarded PO, they can now upload supporting documents. You can view the Vendor’s attachments in the PO’s Document tab.

Contract

• In the Contract Items tab, you can now update the Material Item Code, UOM and Delivery Location for each item.

Invoice

• New Invoices will no longer require approval if 'Require Invoice Approval' is not selected in Application Settings.
• Invoice date is now a mandatory field. For existing invoices without an Invoice date, this field will be auto-filled with the creation date.

Vendor Performance

• In the Vendor Performance Listing, vendor evaluation rating will now be displayed as a percentage score instead of points.

Vendor Profile

• Vendor Profile now includes a 360 View, which summarises the Vendor’s performance by year. The placement of modules has also been rearranged to be more user friendly.
• When a Vendor is blacklisted, this information is now displayed in the Vendor’s Background tab, including details such as the date, reason and user who initiated the blacklist.
• When a creating one-off Vendor, a help message will be displayed if the username does not comply with the required format (must be more than 4 characters long and contain only letters and numbers).
• Once a Vendor connects with your company using your invitation link, they will appear in the Vendor Profile Listing. If Vendor Pre-Qualification Evaluation or Approval was turned on in Application Settings, they will be also added to the Task module for your further action.

Settings

• Breadcrumbs have been added to Settings pages to improve navigation.
• In Application Settings, Admins now have the option to allow certain user roles to duplicate sourcing exercises (Purchase Requisitions, Tenders and Quotations).
• You can now download templates, create new records and upload data using Batch Import for the following settings - Business Unit, User, Cost Center, Compliance Matrix Template, Evaluation Criteria Template, UOM, Tax Code, Material, COA, Calendar, Briefing Location, Project Code, Delivery Location, Forex.
• When editing a Bill of Materials (BOM) Template that has an Uploaded Template, you can now successfully upload a file to replace the previously uploaded template.
• When creating a Compliance Matrix Template, the 'Select Template' field has been removed.
• You are now able to clone Compliance Matrix Templates if the status is Draft or Inactive.

Updates for Vendor Accounts

e-Award

• When a Purchase Order is awarded to you, you can now upload documents before you submit a response. You can still view and download the documents even after submitting your response.
• You will now be notified via email when a Buyer publishes a new Contract awarded to you.
• You can now view details of Contracts that have been awarded, including the contract profile, contract items, billing milestone, document, guarantee, insurance, terms and order.

e-Invoice

• Invoice date is now a mandatory field. For existing invoices without an Invoice date, this field will be auto-filled with the creation date.

Company Profile

• The Dashboard page now displays Company Profile as a pending task if the profile has not been submitted yet.
• Bank Account Information no longer requires the bank address.
• The Document Upload tab now displays the maximum allowed size for uploading documents.