Inside Cimmra Sourcing: weighted scoring that suppliers trust

Ask a supplier why they stopped bidding on a customer's RFQs and you will often hear the same answer: "We never knew how decisions were made." Opaque awards do not just frustrate suppliers. They shrink your future bidder pool, and with it, your negotiating leverage.

Cimmra Sourcing was designed around a simple principle: the best supplier should win on merit, and everyone involved should be able to see why.

How weighted scoring works

When you create an RFI, RFP, or RFQ event, you define the evaluation criteria up front: commercial terms, technical capability, delivery lead time, quality certifications, whatever matters for this category. Each criterion carries a weight, and technical and commercial sections can be scored by different evaluators without seeing each other's inputs.

• Templates and question banks mean your third steel-coils RFQ takes minutes to launch, not days, and asks the same questions the same way every time.
• Weighted sections keep a low price from masking a weak technical response, and vice versa.
• Side-by-side comparison puts every bid in one table: prices normalized, scores computed, differences visible at a glance.

What changes for the buying team

The award decision stops being a debate and becomes a review. The event history shows every question, every response, every score, and every revision, so internal stakeholders and auditors get the same clear picture. When a losing supplier asks for feedback, you can give a real answer, which keeps them bidding next time.

Sourcing events in Cimmra flow directly into the rest of the platform: the winning bid becomes a PO without retyping, and supplier performance data from past orders is available while you evaluate. Sourcing is not a standalone ritual. It is one step in a connected spend process.