BobcatBuy+

BobcatBuy+ will allow campus users to seamlessly use this new and improved shopping environment.

This easy, simple, and intelligent solution will empower you to make well-informed buying decisions based on product, price, and shopping comparisons. BobcatBuy+ will do all of that for you in its intuitive layout, with our specific UC Pricing and competitively bid suppliers already loaded and ready for your orders.

Step into a refreshed shopping experience with...

• All catalogs in one location
• Quick and responsive search results
• 1:1 product comparison 
• Identifying price differences
• Supplemental product information, such as published peer review papers that cite the product and molecular breakdowns for chemicals and gasses
• A multi-vendor cart that will return into Oracle for convenient line-item requisitioning

You’ll first need to complete the Oracle Requisition Entry training within the UC Learning Center. Secondly, you’ll need to submit a Purchasing User Access Provisioning Request. Learn more about these in the Oracle Toolkit video titled “How to Access the Oracle System.”

A click-by-click guide is available with SSO login, and we will have a video tutorial online in September 2024 which walks you through the same steps for you to review.

From within BobcatBuy+, in the footer and the Help button in the top right corner, there is a knowledge base available for you to review. Labviva, the software provider of BobcatBuy+, has detailed articles and tutorials for all areas of the site. We even have a handful of custom videos that showcase our BobcatBuy+ platform, and the general videos use a generic version of the site.

There are two ways a supplier can share their product information with us.

The first is with a hosted catalog, meaning they provided a data file containing all the products available for purchase. This file details the specific product information, which is what the BobcatBuy+ system uses to run its searches and run comparisons across suppliers.

The second way is with a punchout catalog, which is essentially a UC-specific version of their website. BobcatBuy+ doesn’t hold any of the product details, just the login credentials to access the site. These suppliers don’t appear in search, because there are no products for BobcatBuy+ to query. These ones, detailed in the bottom of the BobcatBuy+ homepage, you’d navigate to their site, select your products, then ‘checkout’ to be returned to BobcatBuy+. Those items will then be added to your BobcatBuy+ cart, and you can choose to either be done shopping and move to the requisition steps immediately, or you can continue shopping and add additional products to your cart.

Note, a select number of suppliers provided both forms of product information. This means you can search and their products will appear in search, and you can also navigate to their punchout site to pull down products too. This is especially useful for retrieving quotes or creating custom configuration products.

To return from any supplier’s direct site, or punchout, and return to BobcatBuy+ you will need to initiate checkout from their site. Even if you don’t plan to actually purchase, you’d need to add something to your cart, checkout, then you are brought back into BobcatBuy+. From then, you can simply delete the item and continue your shopping. If you’re looking to get out of BobcatBuy+ and return into Oracle, use the upper left button “Back to Oracle” to return without starting a new requisition.

When you have an incomplete requisition, any new carts will be added to that one. From the requisition screen, you can delete the old items if you decide you don’t want them anymore. Each requisition needs to be submitted, saved and closed, or deleted, in order to start a new one without just adding onto the previous incomplete requisition.

From the top right drop down Account menu, you’ll select Lists. You have the ability to make multiple wishlists to add products to. The gray Plus button lets you create a new list for products, that you can rename.

To add to the lists, from the product selection page there is a heart button saying “Add to Wish List” and then a popup will allow you to select which list you want to add the product to.

Once your wish lists are populated with items, you can view and then add to cart from the wishlist. After you've added to cart, the item will be removed from your wishlist. If you have repeat orders, you can utilize Quick Order to easily add the same batch of products to your cart.

If you have items that you order on a regular basis, you can utilize Quick Order. 

Instead of adding items one-by-one by searching for the product or adding them from your wish list, Quick Order allows you to enter SKU numbers and it will pull those products, or you can even build an Excel sheet using the linked template. This is great especially for repeat course orders, or for group departmental orders, to quickly add many items to your cart at once. 

Please know, BobcatBuy+ will still comparison search across all available products.  This means that if more than one product uses that same identifier, you will need to select which one you want. It will also still show any pricing differences and availability estimates.

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