UC Procurement
July 2014
Power of our collective spend
In This Issue
From Medical Centers to Research to Athletics...
UCLA's Purchasing team of 31 procurement professionals supports the operating infrastructure and needs of a thriving and growing campus community with the complexity and size of a small city. Read more

Bill Propst

Director, Campus Purchasing & Payables

UCLA
Sponsor's Corner

 

Earlier this week, I had the distinct honor to present the P200 Program Strategic Plan to the UC Board of Regents, highlighting the tremendous strides we have made in the past 15 months and outlining our plans to achieve $200 million in annual benefit. Read more

Bill Cooper 
Associate Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer
P200 Exceeds Goal with $128 Million in Benefit

 

Congratulations to the entire UC Procurement Services team for their contributions in helping meet and exceed the P200 Program FY13-14 goal of $120 million! This represents a 28% increase over last year's baseline of $100 million and marks a major milestone in our progress to $200 million.

 

How did we do it? Check out highlights in the UC Procurement Services Brag Book and the UC Press Release announcing this major achievement or watch the recent Regents discussion of P200 Program's Strategic Plan (beginning at 02.39.50 in the recording).

Looking Ahead to a Year of Opportunity

 

Looking ahead to the new year, we aim to build on the foundations we established this year with our systemwide strategic sourcing process, integrations with campus partners, and new supplier relationships to capitalize on the strategic opportunities they enable. Read more

Justin Sullivan

Strategic Sourcing Director

UCSC Internship Program Linking Sustainability & Procurement Initiatives 

 

UCSC Procurement Services is partnering with the Provost's Sustainability Internship Program to develop strategies to reinforce the connection between campus sustainability objectives and procurement. Read more

Benefit Bank Has Launched!  

 

This web-based application developed at UCOP partners with the definitions and processes that were rolled out last November and gives UC Procurement a consistent, verifiable and accurate way to track the Benefit we generate for the system. Congratulations to Terry Thun at UCM who had the first approved entry! If you weren't able to attend the training webinar, the recording and additional materials are available here.

Going Paperless & Automating Service-Based Procurement

 

eCOE has integrated pharmaceuticals catalogs to eliminate paper invoices for $2.3M in spend and is currently working on next generation features and functionality to transform service-based purchases in eCommerce systems. Read more

 

Jenn Glassman

eCOE/Client Technology Solutions Manager

Spend Analytics How Spend Analysis Supports the Strategic Sourcing Process 

 

Visibility into spend data helps us identify opportunities and better understand our current pricing and supplier relationships. There insights in turn inform sourcing and category strategies and through the life cycle provide the data needed to assess contract utilization, compliance, and effectiveness. Read more

Todd Wirsching

Analytics & Reporting Manager 

UCOP Procurement Website Refresh  

 

UCOP Procurement has recently undertaken a project to redesign and update the existing UCOP Procurement Services website. Check out the new changes and user-focused interface scheduled to go live Tuesday, July 22nd!

 
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The next edition of the P200 newsletter will be sent August 29th, 2014.