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Strategic Plan

The Purchasing Services Strategic Plan, updated every two years, supports the following business objectives:

  • Provide best quality, best service, and best value through best practices
  • Deliver user friendly and efficient buying methods
  • Leverage the institution's buying power and position in the marketplace
  • Support the principals of socially responsible purchasing
  • Strive for best-in-class recognition in supply management

The goal of our Strategic Plan is to achieve the following by the end of FY2010:

  • Annual department financial Return-in-Investment (ROI) ratio of 20:1
  • $50 Million in new documented cost savings during the four year period
  • 80% of annual purchase order spend processed through "managed supplier" relationships
  • Annual purchase order spend with preferred contract suppliers of $300 Million
  • Annual purchase order spend with local community ($120 Million) and diversity ($80 Million) suppliers
  • A Penn Marketplace supplier utilization rate of 75% of all annual purchase order transactions

Procure-to-pay (P2P) performance metrics are utilized to measure results achieved and financial return-on-investment(ROI) is delivered to the institution.

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