Agenda: “eStores 101”
• What is eStores?
• What are the Benefits ?
• Who are the Suppliers?
• System Demonstration
• Questions and Answers
What is eStores?
• online ordering system
filled with catalogs from
contracted suppliers
• integrated with the
PeopleSoft Financials
System
• eStores is for UNIV and
OSURF business units
Benefits of using eStores
• Supports strategic procurement goals:
– helps aggregate spending
– helps satisfy internal control requirements and other
compliance issues
• Workflow for internal suppliers
– no 100Ws ( Stores, University Catering, UniPrint)
• eStores items are from contracted suppliers
– no bids or waivers are required
– Contracted lowest overall pricing
Benefits continued…..
•
Considerable selection of products and suppliers
– (over 1 million items)
•
Increases visibility of items from MBE and EDGE
• Build and import a shopping cart directly into PeopleSoft
– Ensures accuracy of items requested
– Expedites processing of transactions
– Automatic PO Dispatching and Faxing
eStores Suppliers
**The goal is to continuously improve the number of supplier catalogs.**
Office Supplies
IT Products &
Services
• OfficeMax
• Premier Office
Solutions
Temporary Labor
• ProTeam Staffing
• Solutions Staffing
• Apple • Lenovo
• Dell
• HP
Lab Supplies
• Grainger
• EMM BLACKS
• Direct Resource • Superior
• HP Products
Industrial
• SherwinnSupply
Williams
Company
• AVI FoodSystems
(Ice Mountain)
• Adriatico’s Pizza
Auto Parts
• NAPA
• Fisher Scientific
Janitorial Supplies
Food & Beverage
Internal Suppliers
•Stores, Receiving & Mail
•University Catering
•UniPrint
•UNITS
•Drake
•Fawcett Center
Furniture
• Continental Office
Environments
• King Business Interiors
• OM Workspace
• T.W. Ruff
• Clara Brown Interiors
What is a Catalog?
You’ve got Friends in Stores!
• Value added services via
Stores Service Center
– Central point of contact for eStores
technical issues
– Educate customers on how to use
eStores
– Answer order status questions
– Verify supplier receipt of orders
– Follow-up on backorders
– Arrange return of goods
– Verify suppliers have issued credits
– Help with sourcing special order
requirements
– Arrange for help with technical
questions from sales reps
System Demonstration
Karen Brown
N350K
614-292-6391
[email protected]
Using IE 8