Live auctions
A sourcing manager runs the auction from the Auctions page. Styles are English, Dutch, and Japanese. Direction is forward or reverse. The room polls for new bids about every two seconds and can extend the close when a bid arrives near the end.
Prices in the auction room are visible to the buyers running it and to the suppliers who were invited. That visibility is intentional. Do not use a live auction when the price must stay sealed.
Recommend an award
Compare score and price, write the justification, and recommend one supplier or a split award. An approver approves or rejects the recommendation. The event then moves through Award approval toward Awarded, Contract pending, Contracted, and Completed as your process requires.
Export the pack
Export a bid sheet to Excel, and export the award pack to Excel or PDF. The pack is a buyer record of the decision. It is generated from the rows already stored in SharePoint.
Purchase order handoff
Creating a purchase order writes a row that is ready for export. If an administrator has saved an ERP webhook URL, the app also posts the order to that address. This is a handoff to a system you control. It is not a built-in SAP, Oracle, or Dynamics connector.
Power Automate flows are not included. A tenant can build its own flow against the SharePoint lists, or call the same webhook, when the finance system needs a different payload.