Evaluator: Sponsor company user who is a scorecard attendee and is assigned an evaluator role so they can submit scores for one or more subject companies.

Evaluation: The scores submitted by an authorized user for metrics on a scorecard that pertain to a specific company or organization.

Evaluation Period: A time frame with a start date and an end date when a subject must scored and the evaluation submitted. Each scorecard session has a defined evaluation period.

Metric: A characteristic that measures performance relative to customer requirements or other standards. Supplier Performance Management offers three types of metrics:

• Input metric: Question soliciting a numeric evaluation.
• Calculated metric: Score is automatically derived by a mathematical formula consisting of standard mathematical operators and values entered for other metrics.
• Statement: Text for providing instruction or other information for evaluators.

Performance Period:  The time frame with a start date and an end date for which a subject company is being scored. Each scorecard session has a defined performance period.

Reminder: An automated email notifying users about scorecard events, e.g. an email letting users know that an evaluation is due in 3 days.

Scorecard: A collection of metrics for evaluating supplier performance, the subjects that are being evaluated, and the users who will perform the evaluation.

Self Assessment: Suppliers submit scorecard evaluations of themselves.

Session: An scheduled evaluation of subjects with a scorecard for a specified performance period and an evaluation due date. For instance if you performed a quarterly review of Supplier Quality that included submitting scorecard evaluations for each supplier, you would create 4 Supplier Quality scorecard sessions each year.

Subject: Company or organization to be evaluated with a scorecard.