Agresso Requisitioning will be\u00a0the primary means of ordering goods and services from the beginning of the new Financial Year; along with Purchasing Cards for low value, ad-hoc spend and Click Travel for travel bookings. The use of manual Purchase Orders and verbal commitments will be discontinued.<\/p>\n
Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n The benefits to the University are as follows:<\/p>\n \u2022Better protection our legal Terms and Conditions of Contract<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0All spend data is captured in one system. \u00a0This\u00a0allows\u00a0detailed spend analysis to be carried out\u00a0and\u00a0enables Procurement to work with Schools and Departments\u00a0to identify opportunities to consolidate spend, negotiate contracts and deliver greater value for money for the University.\u00a0 This work will make a significant contribution towards the University savings targets and will improve the quality and service delivery from our suppliers.<\/p>\n \u2022 Schools and Departments will be able to run reports on commitments and expenditure. \u00a0This will help with budget management and remove the need for local spreadhseets to record this information.<\/p>\n \u2022 We will be able to work to introduce new technologies, such as eMarketplace and eInvoicing, that will streamline processes and reduce workload.<\/p>\n Training and Support<\/strong><\/p>\n The Agresso Requisitioning Project is nearing completion, and training has been given to a number of staff. Please contact Michael Ager in Purchasing if you need training or additional support.<\/p>\n Document Library<\/strong><\/p>\n To support Agresso Users, a library of documents is being developed and placed on the Procurement website. \u00a0We will let users know via email and blog post when this is available.<\/p>\n Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n We will be running\u00a0a series of workshops from September 2016 \u00a0to enable Agresso users to learn more about the Procurement process and further develop Agresso skills and knowledge. We will let users know via email and blog post when more details are\u00a0available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agresso Requisitioning will be\u00a0the primary means of ordering goods and services from the beginning of the new Financial Year; along with Purchasing Cards for low … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137333,137335,722],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}