Project Management

Supply chain related project management initiatives are used by Purchasing Services to facilitate adoption and utilization of new campus-wide supplier business relationships, enhance the organization's ability to more effectively leverage University buying power, support the implementation of cutting-edge procure-to-pay technologies to further enhance the process for buying and paying for products and services, and facilitate major capital construction projects that will enhance the campus infrastructure for students, staff, and visitors to the Penn campus.

Strategic Sourcing Managers facilitate projects in collaboration with School and Center representatives, the University's Facilities & Real Estate Services organization, and internal business partners in central administration.

• Commodity Projects
  The Strategic Sourcing Managers develop and manage various commodity projects in collaboration with School and Center representatives in the pursuit of spend consolidation and cost containment opportunities. Projects include strategic sourcing, spend analysis, collaborative buying and specific commodity initiatives.
• Technology Projects
  Purchasing Services works collaboratively with central administration business partners to identify, evaluate and implement cutting-edge technologies to ensure continuous process improvement and a cost effective procure-to-pay process.
• Tier 1 Manufacturers
  The Tier 1 manufacturer contracting and enablement initiative helps Purchasing Services achieve two goals: leverage annual spend with Penn's top volume manufacturers and enable manufacturer specific online product catalogs in the Penn Marketplace.