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Details of Supply Chain/Shared Services Leadership Transitions

August 12, 2021
Greetings, colleagues,   As a follow-up to the Aug. 6 announcement of Josh Dubroff’s departure from UC Merced, the campus will move forward with the recruitment of a permanent Chief Procurement Officer. We will provide updates as they become available. In the meantime, I am working with...

Message from Josh Dubroff: Next Chapter

August 6, 2021
Chief Procurement Officer Josh Dubroff shared this message with supply chain and shared services staff. Good afternoon, I hope you and your family are doing well and you are as excited about the start of the in-person school year as I am! I’ve seen several of you over the last couple...

Transformation Milestones for CBS2

July 15, 2021
In the last year the Center for Business Services and Solutions (CBS2) has completed significant milestones toward achieving campus goals that will continue to reduce costs and streamline campus processes while improving the quality and level of service for campus faculty and staff. The...

Sunsetting of Enhanced Procurement Approval Requirements

July 8, 2021
Dear Colleagues, In June 2020, our campus implemented a series of cost-savings measures through elevated approval requirements on many categories of procurement purchases. These restrictions limited some non-essential purchases and required deans or division heads to approve others, to ensure...

Transition to Automated Approval Reminders for Oracle Procure-to-Pay

July 6, 2021
As we continue to enhance our use of advanced Oracle functionality and seek to streamline and automate processes to better serve the campus community, we are launching automated approval reminders for procure-to-pay documents. What does this replace? Our Supply Chain and CBS2 teams currently...

Key Dates for FY21 Procurement

May 25, 2021
.responsive { width: 100%; max-width: 600px; height: auto; } Dear Colleagues, As we approach the end of the fiscal year, here is a reminder of key dates to assist departments in closing out fiscal year 2020-21 procurement activity and ensuring expenditures with FY21 funds are on track...

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