University Procurement Services News & Updates


November 2022

Winter Holiday Schedule

Winter Holiday Schedule

In accordance with the university’s holiday closing schedule, University Procurement Services (UPS) will be closed Monday, December 26, 2022, through Monday, January 2, 2023. The help desk and system support will be closed.

 

During this time, purchasing requisitions may be submitted. Punchout and quick orders will be issued, however, any purchase order requiring UPS review and approval will not be issued until after the break. Similarly, during this time, invoices, check requests, non-po uploads and expense reports may be submitted, but they will not be processed until staff returns from the holiday break. Please understand, because submissions will be processed in the new year (2023), pricing will be subject to change based on annual pricing adjustment.


Accounts Payable’s last payment run of CY22 will be December 22, 2022, and it will include payments on approved invoices up to and including due date of January 5, 2023. Accounts Payable will resume its normal Tuesday/Thursday payment runs on January 3, 2023.

 

FOR EMERGENCY INQUIRES ONLY, please email procureyearend@finance.rutgers.edu. This inbox will be active only during the closure period. 

 

We will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.

 

We wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year!

Training

RU Procurement Learning on Learner Mobile Platform Coming Soon

University Procurement Services is excited to announce our training classes will soon be available online through RU Learning with LearnerMobile, a new platform and new learning experience.

 

Please visit our website for more information.

Strategic Sourcing

Catalogs Now Available in the RU Marketplace Labviva Portal

GenScript USA Inc, USA Scientific, and STEMCELL Technologies Inc. catalogs are now available in our Labviva portal.


All purchases with these suppliers must be made through the RU Marketplace Labviva portal


Should you need technical or customer support, please contact:



Within the Labviva portal, you will find an additional 45 supplier catalogs, all totaling over 2.5M SKUs covering research, lab and healthcare supply and equipment needs. For more Labviva details, kindly visit the Procurement website, and access the Labviva catalog via RU Marketplace. 


More catalogs are planned in the near term, communications will continue be shared.  

New Supplier "Badges" Launched in Labviva Catalog

New Badges: Free Shipping and Small Business suppliers are now easily identified via new “Free Shipping” and “Small Businessbadges deployed in the Labviva RU Marketplace research and healthcare catalog. Labviva has also updated the “Look and Feel” of all the badges to a cleaner feel. 

Diversity Supplier indicates a supplier that has completed a formal third-party certification process and is recognized as a certified diverse supplier.

Local Supplier indicates a supplier New Jersey. Utilizing local suppliers further supports the university's supplier diversity and sustainability initiatives. 

Free Shipping indicates a supplier offers Standard Free Shipping.

**Not to include Free shipping not including special handling: example heavy orders 70lb+, or special FOB inside delivery.

Small Business Supplier indicates a supplier who defines a small business as one that employs fewer than 1,500 people and generates a maximum annual revenue of $41.5 million.