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The launch of the Life Sciences and MRO Centers of Excellence came about after an intensive couple of months working with our COE Design Team, the PLC and Accenture. The idea behind the COEs was that small, focused groups of commodity and sourcing specialists working virtually from across the system would be formed and tasked with specific commodities to manage.  

              Read more                              Zoanne Nelson, P200 Program Director

Strategic sourcing and category management activities are becoming a major focus of the P200 program and we are fortunate to have a new guide book and traveling companions joining our team to help make our voyage more successful and enjoyable.

                                    Read more                         Justin Sullivan, Director Strategic Sourcing

The performance management team made great strides over the past month developing a framework for standard performance management and metrics across UC.  The PLC approved our three priority performance metrics, Addressable Spend, Total UC Benefit (Savings), and Procurement ROI, which will be implemented Fall 2013 for system wide, quarterly reporting.

Did you know that by using Spend Analytics, Accenture was able to identify more than 80 opportunities for UC, 50 of which are under review by the COEs? 

We're excited to announce the start of the Spend Analytics Phase 2 project.  Phase 2 will be divided into three, 17 week waves with each campus being assigned to a wave.  UCSD, UC Berkeley, and UCSF are in wave 1 which is scheduled to begin September 9th 2013.

                                    Read more         Erin Riley, Information, Analytics & Systems Director

It depends!  An integral tool of SRS is the Reverse Auction. During our recent on campus trainings, we've included an interactive exercise to determine the price a supplier is willing to sell a product.

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Welcome to Rick Coulon, Director of Materiel and Risk Management. Rick has fulfilled the role of interim Director at Irvine since September 2011. 

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We are pleased to announce our Enterprise Customer Agreement with Amazon Web Services which allows us to acquire any of the
      cloud-based services offered by AWS.

      Read more                                 Eric Stevens, IT Commodity Manager