To celebrate the return to campus, Fisher Scientific is providing discounts for university labs like yours! Prices have been reduced on these items by up to 75%! Please take a look at this Academic FLASHBACK Campaign flyer or visit the Fisher punchout catalog. You can also contact our Fisher Account Manager, Sabrina Binczewski, for one on one support for your needs.

Berkeley Information Technology (bIT) has announced a new process for managing Adobe Creative Cloud software licenses for all eligible students, faculty, and staff.  Please follow the instructions on their website: Updated Licensing Process for Adobe to maintain your current no-cost enterprise licenses or to acquire a new license. While many BearBUY suppliers offer these and other Adobe products, we urge you to avoid purchasing other single licenses at higher costs. 

Supply Chain is excited to announce that two (2) new BearBUY eCourses are in the works! 

These eCourses will be based on the following:

• Purchase Order Changes - Change Order Preparers will learn about the new Change Request Approval process and how/when to properly conduct PO direct revisions in BearBUY.
• BearBUY 2.0 - Shoppers - Shoppers will learn how to submit change requests for approval, look into vouchers, and properly create receipts in BearBUY.

Please stay tuned for more information and details. These new eCourses are expected to be released with the BearBUY 22.3 upgrade release in November 2022!

• Business Unit is required on all Purchase Orders and Invoices.
• POs created before 06/01/2022 may be invoiced against, provided that no changes are made to the PO at either the line or chartstring level, and the accounting values are active.
• Review G/L accounts and funds that will close effective 12/31/2022.
• Due to the requirement for Business Unit, PO lines and accounting codes cannot be changed on any PO created before 06/01/2022.
• Changes at this level will not export to BFS and cannot be paid against.
• Blanket orders and subawards should be closed and replaced with new POs if a change in amount, quantity, or accounting code values are required.
• Do not cancel PO lines unless you contact the supplier in advance and verify items/services will not be delivered.
• The best method to reduce liens is to close PO lines or the PO.

As a friendly reminder, WFHGENERIC is restricted to employees on valid work from home agreements and intended for shipping tangible goods to residential addresses within California. 

Please do not use WFHGENERIC to send lab supplies to your home or to ship Federally funded equipment or assets to a third party. If you have an essential purchase for federal funded goods or capital assets that cannot be shipped to an open campus receiving location, please send a request to bearbuyhelp@berkeley.edu. 

More information on using WFHGENERIC can be found on this quick reference guide: https://supplychain.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/generic_ship-to_address_-_quick_reference_guide_-_03_31_2022.pdf