Answer a multi-tier assessment

Multi-tier assessments allow suppliers to forward an assessment to their own suppliers. This allows buyers and suppliers to have a better understanding of their upstream suppliers and supply chain.

These assessments require you to identify applicability to your company, supplier(s), or both. Requesting buyers decide if an assessment is multi-tier.

To begin answering, you are given information about the assessment and asked about your company and supply.

This article reviews the workflow for the different types of multi-tier assessments.

Company level multi-tier

  1. Click the menu icon  in the top left corner.
  2. Click Responses.
  3. Select an assessment to answer.
  4. Review the Introduction page.

    5. If a buyer has provided a guidance document, you can find it on the Introduction page. Click the envelope in the upper left hand corner to send an email to the assessment sender.

  5. Click Continue.
  6. Review the Assessment preview page.

    7. By reviewing the assessment, you can determine if the assessment is relevant for or your suppliers.

  7. Click Continue.
  8. Review the Ownership page.

Figure 1. Click the question mark icon for more details on each option.
  1. Select the option that is applicable to you.
My company Allows you to answer the assessment and not forward to other suppliers.
My suppliers Allows you to only sent the assessment to other suppliers or respond on behalf of them. You will not respond about your entity.
My company and my suppliers Allows you to answer the assessment for your entity and send it to other suppliers. You may have the option to respond on behalf of your suppliers.

You cannot change this option after you click Continue. If you do not select an option, the assessment will default to the first option.

  1. Click Continue.

  2. Review the Distribution page.

    You can select who receives the forwarded assessment.

Figure 2. Distribution page.
  1. Review the coach marks and click Get Started to dismiss.

  2. Select the applicable suppliers to which to forward the assessment.

    If a supplier is not listed, click Create to add a new supplier. To learn how to import multiple suppliers, click here.

  3. Click Continue

    You can compose the message to send to your suppliers .

Figure 3. Compose message for suppliers.

  1. Click Send.

    The Confirm dialog box is displayed.

Figure 4. Confirm dialog box.
  1. Click Yes to confirm or Cancel to return to the message.
  2. Start answering the assessment for your company.
  3. Click Submit when completed.

Site/Product level multi-tier

  1. Click the menu icon  in the top left corner.
  2. Click Responses.
  3. Select an assessment to answer.
  4. Review the Introduction page.

    5. If a buyer has provided a guidance document, you can find it on the Introduction page. Click the envelope in the upper left hand corner to send an email to the assessment sender.

  5. Click Continue.
  6. Review the Assessment preview page.

    7. By reviewing the assessment, you can determine if the assessment is relevant for or your suppliers.

  7. Click Continue.
  8. Review the Ownership page.

Figure 1. Click the question mark icon for more details on each option.
  1. Select the option that is applicable to you.
My company Allows you to answer the assessment and not forward to other suppliers.
My suppliers Allows you to only sent the assessment to other suppliers or respond on behalf of them. You will not respond about your entity.
My company and my suppliers Allows you to answer the assessment for your entity and send it to other suppliers. You may have the option to respond on behalf of your suppliers.

You cannot change this option after you click Continue. If you do not select an option, the assessment will default to the first option.

  1. Click Continue.

  2. Review the Distribution page.

    You can select who receives the forwarded assessment.

Figure 2. Distribution page.
  1. Review the coach marks and click Get Started to dismiss.

  2. Select the applicable suppliers to which to forward the assessment.

    If a supplier is not listed, click Create to add a new supplier. To learn how to import multiple suppliers, click here.

  3. Click Continue

    You can compose the message to send to your suppliers .

Figure 3. Compose message for suppliers.

  1. Click Send.

    The Confirm dialog box is displayed.

Figure 4. Confirm dialog box.
  1. Click Yes to confirm or Cancel to return to the message.

You can add products or sites prior to opening the assessment. You can review the Manage your company sites or products article for more information.

  1. Click "Create Product" or "Create Site" to add Products/Sites.

    The Create product/site dialog box is displayed.

Figure 5. Create product/site dialog box.

  1. Enter the product/site name.

    Entering a site requires you to also enter the location.

  2. Click Apply.
  3. Select the applicable products/sites.

  4. Click Continue.

    The assessment for the first product/site is displayed.

  5. Review the Cover page of the assessment.
  6. Click Continue.
  7. Start answering the questions for that product/site.

If you're answering for more than one product/site, you may want to give the same answers to multiple sites or products. To save time responding, you can preload responses from the first site or product you have answered. To learn more, review the Preload site or product responses article.

  1. Click the drop-down menu to select the other products/sites.

Figure 6. Product drop-down menu.
  1. Click Submit when all the assessments are completed.
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