Once all the Auction request has been approved by all the approvers, now you can go ahead and publish the auction. By publishing we mean, making the auction available for the suppliers in their respective MeRLIN supplier portals.
Following are the steps to publish an auction to suppliers.
As the name suggests, this action on any selected auction will let you publish the already approved auction.
Menu Path: Sourcing Event Management >> Auctions>> Action >> Publish
1.From the list of Auctions, select a request and Click on the Actions Button and choose Publish. As already seen in the Auctions section, the actions are displayed based on the Status of the request. For an auction in the Approved state, the Publish option is made available.