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UC Procurement
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November 2014
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UCSF/UCB Supply Chain joins effort to combat Ebola
As a part of their efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, UCSF's Global Health Services reached out to the Supply Chain team. The team's procurement capabilities proved critical in getting needed supplies to the front-lines of the epidemic. Read more
Acting Director, Strategic Sourcing
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 Sponsor's Corner
It was 9:17p.m. (PT) Wednesday October 29, and on any normal night, it would nearly be time for me to take "canine daughter," Suzie, out for her night time constitutional and prepare to turn in myself; after all 5:00 am wake up comes quickly. But this was by no means a normal night. Read more
Bill Cooper
Associate Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer
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UC Procurement Services Records $12.7M in Q1 Benefit
Congratulations to the entire UC Procurement Services team for their contributions in achieving $12.7 million dollars in recorded Benefit in the first quarter of fiscal 2015.
How did we do it? Check out highlights in the UC Procurement Services Brag Book.
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A Year in Review: eCommerce Center of Excellence
2014 marked the launch of the UC eCommerce Center of Excellence, a systemwide team directing eCommerce strategy on behalf of UC. The team has made great strides in coming together and applying their collective expertise to support important procurement activities. Read more
Jenn Glassman
eCOE Lead and UCSD Assistant Director, Technology & Customer Solutions
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Value of Collaborative Spend Analysis
Spend with small, local or minority owned businesses has been integrated into Spend Analytics. Reports can now be generated directly from Spend Analytics to determine the spend across all of the campuses and inform sourcing decisions in consideration of supplier diversity. Read more
Todd Wirsching
Analytics & Reporting Manager
Procurement Services
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UC Procurement Services Starlight Award
In line with our vision of being recognized as high-performing strategic partners and our strategic objective of investing in the development of our team, the Procurement Leadership Council has established a unique recognition program to spotlight the achievements of procurement professionals systemwide. Read more
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The Return of the Pipeline
Strategic Sourcing COE managers and campus pipeline representatives recently participated in a reimagined pipeline discussion that will help set the systemwide sourcing agenda in the coming months and identify new opportunities for collaboration across campuses. Read more Justin Sullivan Director of Strategic Sourcing Centers of Excellence Procurement Services
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Streamlined Legal Documents & Templates Launched
Earlier this month, a number of key updates to legal documents and templates used in the procurement of goods and services were released. As part of the RFx Standardization project which started in 2013, the expanded scope in this second phase included documents used for contracting goods only, services only, as well as goods and services purchases. Read more
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Benefit Bank Usability Enhancements
Recently added features to Benefit Bank improve system usability, enable recording of benefits for UC Medical Centers and include updated dashboard totals to reflect current year spend, rather than total. Read more
Erin Riley
Information, Analytics and Systems Director
Procurement Services, UCOP
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The next edition of the P200 newsletter will be sent January 23rd, 2015.
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