Oct 14     TSM Kick-off

Oct 16     Spend Analytics 30/30 - Usage 

Oct 28     Performance Management Benefit Tracker Training

Oct 29     SRS RFXtra - Communication and Email Templates

Nov 13     Spend Analytics 30/30 - UCOP Fund 

Later this month we will initiate one of our important P200 efforts to date - our ability to articulate the total UC Benefit (savings) Procurement delivers to UC. While many campuses collect and report savings at a campus level, we have not had one consistent, standard methodology that allows us to credibly report these savings at the UC level. 

       Read more       Erin Riley, Information, Analytics & Systems Director

Over the past six weeks, we've invested over 300 hours in training our Category Managers and COE team members to harmonize our process and improve our ability to collaborate and work together. This training has born immediate fruit as our teams are actively engaged in 14 sourcing projects whose impact will extend across our 10 campuses and even the California State University (CSU) System.

Read more                       Justin Sullivan, Director Strategic Sourcing

The Facilities & MRO Center of Excellence is working on four targeted areas: Maintenance Supplies, Janitorial Supplies, Flooring and Furniture. Davis, Berkeley, and San Francisco piloted a Prime Supplier agreement with Grainger. Using their experience and with their support, we have expanded the Grainger agreement system wide. New pricing went into effect on September 23, which immediately offered overall price savings.

Read more                 David Houghton, COE-Facilities and MRO Lead

The Life Sciences COE is focused on four system wide projects include General Lab Supplies, Chemicals, Anti-bodies, and Cylinder Gases with a total spend $400M. The team is developing a comprehensive strategy that leverages our collective spend to achieve greater benefit for the University.

              Read more               Ross Bausone, COE - Life Science Acting Lead

Todd joined Procurement in September and he is managing the Analytics and Reporting team. He will be focused on sourcing analysis, financial analysis and business intelligence to support Procurement and to support the P200 program.

Spend Analytics Phase 2 is underway with Berkeley, UCSF and UCSD in Wave 1. Phase 2 strengthens the infrastructure put into place during Phase 1 and includes:

- Enhancing Pcard data not acquired during Phase 1

- Consolidating Campus and Pcard spend data into a single integrated view

Read more              Todd Wirsching, Analytics & Reporting Manager

We are concluding the supplier normalization methodology verification with UCSD and UCR. A big humongous thank you to Marc Guerra from UCR and Anthony Singleton from UCSD - their input and support has been great! They have given us an idea of what campuses can and will provide in terms of supplier data and we are better prepared to request data from all 10 campuses because of their cooperation.

Read more              Ola Popoola, Business Systems Project Manager

One year on and we continue to learn and improve SRS. Now in Phase 2, we are working with a group of campus representatives and legal counsel on the RFP, RFQ and RFI templates to streamline and incorporate these more effectively into Sourcing Director to make it easier to create and organize your events. 

                             Read more               

On October 4, all SPOCs came together at UC Irvine to start the conversation around how to translate our vision, mission and strategic objectives into the work we do every day and what it means to be a "high performing strategic partner that is essential to the financial health of the University". For some campuses, this is a fundamental shift in not only the way we approach our work, but also how we derive meaning from the work that we do.