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<Session ID="/baanerp/td/pur/tdpur8190m000" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Vendor Rating Subjective Criteria (tdpur8190m000)</Title>
   </Header>
   <HelpTopic>
      <AimSection>
         <Paragraph>Use this session to maintain and to display <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#000249" role="glossary">subjective criteria</Link>.</Paragraph>
      </AimSection>
      <GeneralSection>
         <Note>
            <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>You cannot delete a subjective criterion that is used as a <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#000250" role="glossary">parent criterion</Link>.</Paragraph>
         </Note>
         <Paragraph>If you print questionnaires with the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/td/pur/tdpur8454m000" role="session">Vendor Rating Questionnaires (tdpur8454m000)</GUIRef> session, the criteria maintained in the
		  current session are used as questionnaire headings.</Paragraph>
      </GeneralSection>
      <RelatedTopics>
         <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
         <RelTopic>
            <Link href="/baanerp/td/onlinemanual/000086" role="manual">To calculate ratings for subjective criteria</Link>
         </RelTopic>
      </RelatedTopics>
   </HelpTopic>
   <Fields>
      <FieldHelp ID="tdpur890.crit">
         <Header>
            <Title>Criterion</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The code of the <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#000249" role="glossary">subjective criterion</Link>.</FuncDesc>
         <Note>
            <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>You can define as many subjective criteria as desired.</Paragraph>
         </Note>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="tdpur890.prnt">
         <Header>
            <Title>Parent Criterion</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The code of the <Link href="/baanerp/td/glossary/glossary#000250" role="glossary">parent criterion</Link>.</FuncDesc>
         <SimpleSection>
            <Paragraph>If you do not enter a parent criterion in this field, the
			 level of the subjective criterion is 0. If you enter a parent criterion, ERP Enterprise assigns the level 1 or higher.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
         <SimpleSection>
            <SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
            <Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
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                         SRC="../images/nt_flow_setdpur8190m.gif"
                         alt="[...]"/>
            </Figure>
            <Paragraph>The subjective criterion Customer service does not have a
			 parent criterion, so ERP Enterprise assigns the level 0.</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>The subjective criteria Call handling and Technical support
			 both have as parent criterion Customer service, so ERP Enterprise assigns the level 1
			 to them.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="tdpur890.levl">
         <Header>
            <Title>Level</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The level of the subjective criterion in the tree structure. ERP Enterprise assigns the level according to the parent criterion that is linked to
		  the subjective criterion.</FuncDesc>
         <SimpleSection>
            <SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
            <Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
               <HTML:IMG xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" width="431" height="153"
                         SRC="../images/nt_flow_setdpur8190m.gif"
                         alt="[...]"/>
            </Figure>
            <Paragraph>The subjective criterion Customer service does not have a
			 parent criterion, so ERP Enterprise assigns the level 0.</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>The subjective criteria Call handling and Technical support
			 both have as parent criterion Customer service, so ERP Enterprise assigns the level 1
			 to them.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
      <FieldHelp ID="tdpur890.perc">
         <Header>
            <Title>Weighting</Title>
         </Header>
         <FuncDesc>The weighting reflects the relative importance of the
		  subjective criterion. In general it is best to enter weights in terms of
		  percentages. For example, if this criterion is considered to have a weight of
		  40% in the rating, then you must enter 40 in this field.</FuncDesc>
         <SimpleSection>
            <Paragraph>However, this weighting figure is relative to other
			 criteria weightings.</Paragraph>
            <TABLE border="1" borderstyle="default" space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
               <CAPTION>Example 1</CAPTION>
               <THEAD noTR="1">
                  <TR no="1" isLast="true">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">weight</TD>
                  </TR>
               </THEAD>
               <TBODY noTR="3">
                  <TR no="1" isLast="false">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria A</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">2</TD>
                  </TR>
                  <TR no="2" isLast="false">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria B</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">2</TD>
                  </TR>
                  <TR no="3" isLast="true">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria C</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</TD>
                  </TR>
               </TBODY>
            </TABLE>
            <TABLE border="1" borderstyle="default" space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
               <CAPTION>Example 2</CAPTION>
               <THEAD noTR="1">
                  <TR no="1" isLast="true">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">weight</TD>
                  </TR>
               </THEAD>
               <TBODY noTR="3">
                  <TR no="1" isLast="false">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria A</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">25</TD>
                  </TR>
                  <TR no="2" isLast="false">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria B</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">25</TD>
                  </TR>
                  <TR no="3" isLast="true">
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Criteria C</TD>
                     <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">50</TD>
                  </TR>
               </TBODY>
            </TABLE>
            <Paragraph>The weights of example 1 and the weights of example 2 have
			 exactly the same effect in vendor rating calculations.</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>So, it is important to know the weights of the other
			 criteria, in order to correctly set the relative importance.</Paragraph>
            <Paragraph>You can scale all criteria weights in true percentages in
			 the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/td/pur/tdpur8852m000" role="session">Normalize Criteria Weightings (tdpur8852m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
         </SimpleSection>
      </FieldHelp>
   </Fields>
</Session>