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Last Updated: 2025-02-07
Concept: Scorecard Scoring Logic

Concept: Scorecard Scoring Logic

Evaluations enable you to solicit feedback from your stakeholders on the performance of your suppliers. You can customize the weighted scoring for each question and section in your evaluation. Strategic Sourcing automatically calculates and aggregates results from all your stakeholders.
This scorecard scoring logic applies to performance reviews and sourcing events.

Calculating Total Scores

To calculate the total score, Strategic Sourcing:
  1. Adds all the weighted section scores, rounding the total score up to the first decimal place.
  2. Averages the total scores for each supplier to produce an overall score.
To calculate the weighted section score, Strategic Sourcing multiplies the section weight as a decimal by the total section score.
Section
Section Weight
Total Section Score
Weighted Section Score
Pricing & Financials
0.20
86.7%
0.20 × 86.7% = 17.3%
Quality & Level of Service
0.25
97.5%
0.25 × 97.5% = 24.4%
Maintenance
0.25
90%
0.25 × 90% = 22.5%
Account Management
0.10
95%
0.10 × 95% = 9.5%
Innovation
0.20
80%
0.20 × 80% = 16%
In this example, the total supplier score is 89.7%. The total supplier score is the sum total of all the weighted section scores.

Calculating a Section Score with Equally Weighted Questions

To calculate the total section score of equally weighted questions, Strategic Sourcing:
  1. Averages all the question scores of each of your stakeholders, excluding any N/A answers and unanswered questions.
  2. Computes the average of the stakeholder average scores.
A section has 2 equally weighted questions. Your 4 stakeholders answer the questions with a numeric score of 1-5 out of 5:
Stakeholder
Question 1 Score
Question 2 Score
Stakeholder 1
No answer
2 out of 5
Stakeholder 2
2 out of 5
N/A
Stakeholder 3
4 out of 5
5 out of 5
Stakeholder 4
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
Strategic Sourcing drops N/A answers and unanswered questions from calculations and averages each stakeholder score:
Stakeholder
Calculation
Stakeholder 1
(No Answer + (2 ÷ 5)) ÷ 2 = 2 ÷ 5 = 0.4
Stakeholder 2
((2 ÷ 5) + N/A) ÷ 2 = 2 ÷ 5 = 0.4
Stakeholder 3
((4 ÷ 5) + (5 ÷ 5)) ÷ 2 = 0.9
Stakeholder 4
((3 ÷ 5) + (3 ÷ 5)) ÷ 2 = 0.6
Strategic Sourcing averages all stakeholder scores together to get the percentage: ((0.4 + 0.4 + 0.9 + 0.6) ÷ 4) × 100% = 57.5%.

Calculating a Section Score with Differently Weighted Questions

To calculate the total section score with differently weighted questions, Strategic Sourcing:
  1. Averages all the question scores of each of your stakeholders and scales to 100%, excluding any N/A answers and unanswered questions.
  2. Computes the average of the stakeholder average scores.
A section has 2 questions, one weighted 25% and the other weighted 75%. Your 4 stakeholders answer the questions with a numeric score of 1-5 out of 5:
Stakeholder
Question 1 Score, Weighted 25%
Question 2 Score, Weighted 75%
Stakeholder 1
No answer
2 out of 5
Stakeholder 2
2 out of 5
N/A
Stakeholder 3
4 out of 5
5 out of 5
Stakeholder 4
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
Strategic Sourcing drops N/A answers and unanswered questions from calculations and scales each stakeholder score to 100%:
Stakeholder
Calculation
Stakeholder 1
No Answer + (2 ÷ 5) × 100%= (2 ÷ 5) × 100% = 40%
Stakeholder 2
(2 ÷ 5) × 100% + N/A = (2 ÷ 5) × 100% = 40%
Stakeholder 3
(4 ÷ 5) × 25% + (5 ÷ 5) × 75% = 20% + 75% = 95%
Stakeholder 4
(3 ÷ 5) × 25% + (3 ÷ 5) × 75% = 15% + 45% = 60%
Strategic Sourcing averages all stakeholder scores together to get the percentage: (40% + 40% + 95% + 60%) ÷ 4 = 58.8%.

Calculating Question Scores

To calculate a question score, Strategic Sourcing uses this formula: (Score of Stakeholders ÷ Number of Stakeholders That Answered) × Weight Percentage.
Of your 4 stakeholders, only 3 provide answers with a numeric score of 1-5 out of 5:
Stakeholder
Question Score
Stakeholder 1
2 out of 5
Stakeholder 2
N/A
Stakeholder 3
4 out of 5
Stakeholder 4
3 out of 5
Strategic Sourcing averages scores by the number of stakeholders that answered: (((2 ÷ 5) + (5 ÷ 5) + (3 ÷ 5)) ÷ 3) x 100% = 66.7%.