Dear Brent,
Further to our today’s conversation, I hereby confirm the list of enhancement requests already issued by Casino and considered as high operational priorities :
· adding the ability to postpone acceptance of terms & conditions without pausing the event now that event closing can be postponed without pausing the RFX
· event scheduling script programming daily and/or weekly RFX on baseline events automatically for 2 weeks (fruits & vegetables and fresh food commodities in general)
· ability to make the RFX summary appear automatically displayed/opened up at 100% on supplier view for one company or business unit (optional, can be selected or not for one company or business unit)
· multi round “read only” and “hide questions”. The highest priority concerns “hide questions”.
· Supplier response difference report towards previous round
· Optimization and awarding: finalizing all functionalities planned for both and specially the multipoint price !
Can we please get confirmation of delivery schedule of above mentioned enhancements?
We do also support the following enhancement projects together with other customers. We consider these projects as strategic priorities:
· Portal widgets & KPIs: though we can still work without it for a couple of months, this should be implemented by the end of 2016. We will confirm our definite business structure to be able to move from our current “multicompany organization” to a “single organization with business units” to enable implementation of widgets through the portal in step 2.
· Upgrading of the scoring & weighting module: we remind the fact that making the scoring of numeric values more granular is an old Casino enhancement request that we would like to be integrated in the work around the global module upgrading
· Supplier self-registration as an option at business unit level
· Project Management Module: we look forward to participating to the different workshop sessions around this module!
We have recently gathered the following operational enhancements from our staff members recruited since January 2015:
· Ability to request multi event consolidated view through a button on the tool (available from a script link out of the tool today)
· When creating a new participant company, a new participant company user or an admin or admin user, the language and time zone proposed by default should be the ones of the person creating the access. This should either be linked to the parameters of the admin profile creating the access codes or defined at company or business unit level. Today, by default, the language proposed is English and the time zone GMT: source of mistakes for access code creation
· Huge problem in Brazil: most supplier contacts actively use 2 to 3 different e-mail addresses when working with the same customer on the same process. When creating access codes, reinitializing passwords or sending out e-mails or broadcasts through the tools, there is a high risk for supplier not using the e-mail address given into his profile on the tool at this moment.
It would be extremely timesaving and more efficient to be able to have one main e-mail address on the supplier contact profile plus 2 optional secondary e-mail addresses. Supplier would receive any message form the tool on potentially 3 e-mail boxes.
· When using the event research filter, it would be very useful to be able to have a multi select menu for the “Event Status Filter”. This would enable the admin/user to exclude event status polluting its research like events in “cancelled” status
· Excluding GMT time indication as additional time indication on all messages sent through the tool. The only time mentioned on these messages must be related to the time zone of the admin/user sending out these messages. Having GMT time in addition to the local times is often generating confusion on event starting and closing times for events being run in other time zones than GMT
· The system should name imported files by default automatically with original imported file name: being forced to name each imported files as event attachment is time consuming and also source of mistakes
· Ability for the admin/user to import several file attachments at once
· In auctions, supplier should have view on rejected bids automatically in the list of their bids = same view as admin/user.
· Tool should be fully supporting google chrome on supplier side. Huge problems to view the tables nowadays
· Ability to export supplier responses and comparison only with files attached by suppliers, without exporting buyer file attachments
· Ability to have single cells defined as inactive by the buyer in a mandatory question column (one step beyond “not applicable”): being inactive, supplier must not and cannot fill in a n answer in this cell though question column is mandatory
· Display e-mail address of each participant as additional information on participant activity list/screen:
Some of the ERs mentioned by our most recent team members were already risen in the past (e.g. ability to define a cell as inactive in a mandatory question column), others are new and fall partly under the major “quality improvement axis” that you mentioned during the meeting in London such as user friendliness on participant but also on admin/user side.
I stay at your disposal if you need any further explanation on these requests risen by our most recent team members.
I would appreciate to have a conference call to go through them together within the next days.