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Getting Started in BUY.IU

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Getting Started in BUY.IU

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Office of Procurement Services

Agenda

• Introduction to Purchasing.
• The user profile.
• Activity 1
• Placing catalog a order.
• Activity 2
• 5-minute break.
• Locating carts and document search.
• Workflow and communication.
• Activity 3
• Wrap-up.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the purchasing hierarchy and lifecycle of a purchase.
• Define terminology used in BUY.IU.
• Save an address to your user profile.
• Place a catalog order.
• Locate carts and orders using the Shopping and Document modules.
• Follow a Requisition to completed status using workflow and history.
• Demonstrate using the Comments section to communicate in BUY.IU.

Introduction to Purchasing

Procurement hierarchy

Hosted or Punchout Catalog

First choice

Check Request Form

Second choice

Non-Catalog Order

Third choice

Procurement Card (P-Card)

Fourth choice*

*P-Card may be preferred for hospitality purchases – consult your campus.

Lifecycle of a purchase

Cart Requisition Purchase Order Receiving Invoice Payment generated Purchase Order closed

BUY.IU encompasses all of these processes and more.

BUY.IU terminology

• Module: Grouping of functions in BUY.IU. For example, the Shopping

module contains shortcuts to different purchasing mechanisms.

• Dashboard: Interface comprised of widgets which update in real-time

upon login. Customizable by user.

• Supplier: External individual or business which provides a good or

service to IU.

BUY.IU terminology, continued

• Shopping Cart: Collection of items selected from a supplier for purchase.

Every purchase in BUY.IU starts in a shopping cart.

• Commodity Code: Four or five character code which describes, at a high

level, the good or service being purchased. Drives document routing within Purchasing.

• Object Code: A four digit code which classifies a financial transaction.

Describes what kind of transaction is being made.

The user profile

The user profile

• Every BUY.IU user can customize their user profile.
• Contains saved account and shipping information, cart assignees,

notification preferences and more.

• Establish your user profile before shopping.

Demo: the user profile

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Placing a catalog order

Who can make purchases?

• Two roles in BUY.IU: Requestor and Shopper.
• Requestor: IU faculty or staff member, including employed students.
• Shopper: IU-affiliate or student.
• Shoppers can build orders but cannot place orders.
• Must assign cart to Requestor for review and submission.

Shopping Cart rules

• Cannot combine multiple suppliers in the same cart.
• The cart is used to build an order which will be sent to a supplier.
• Cannot combine Catalog and Non-Catalog orders with Check Request

forms.

• Catalog/Non-Catalog orders and Check Requests route differently, thus they

cannot be combined.

Making a purchase

Step 1: Search for and add items to shopping cart. Step 2: Review shopping cart. Step 3: Proceed to checkout or assign cart to another user. Step 4: Review and submit Requisition. Step 5: Follow Requisition to completed status.

Activity 2

Place a catalog order

Activity 2

You are a member of the purchasing team in the Biology department on the Bloomington campus. Dr. Bell contacts you and requests two cases of Pyrex glass beakers, item number EF1700A, to replenish beakers in the lab

• storeroom. 96 beakers are needed in total.

Search for the beakers in BUY.IU using the main search and purchase them using account 1024600 and object code 4035 (laboratory supplies). The beakers should be shipped to room 102 in Jordan Hall in Bloomington.

Activity 2: place a catalog order

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Break

Document workflow

Who reviews orders?

• BUY.IU does a series of initial checks (see reference guide). If any of

these checks fail, your order will be returned to your View Carts page.

• Next, order routes for fiscal review:
• Every order, regardless of dollar amount, routes to the FO Approval workflow

stop for review and approval.

• Fiscal Officer, primary, and secondary delegates on account(s).
• Orders greater than $25,000 also route to the Org Review workflow stop.
• RC Fiscal Officer or similar campus official.

Segregation of duties

• Approvers cannot approve documents which they initiate.
• Approvers cannot approve document with which they are associated.

Will my order route through Purchasing?

• Maybe! It depends on several factors:
• What are you purchasing?
• How much are you purchasing?
• Is the order recurring?

Don’t meet the criteria above? Check the box next to “Order Restricted?” on the Requisition to force routing through Purchasing.

Locating carts and document search

My Carts and Orders

Located in the Shopping module.

• Open my Active Cart: Opens the order currently in the cart. If no active
• rder, opens “View Carts” page.
• View Carts: Contains draft, returned, and assigned carts.
• View My Orders (Last 90 Days): Contains orders in any status including

returned and withdrawn.

Document search

• Simple search
• Quickly return documents you initiated.
• Example: “My Requisitions” returns Requisitions I initiated.
• Advanced search
• Offers many search parameters.
• Example: Searching for Requisitions I initiated, funded by account 1912610,

and sitting at the FO Approval Workflow stop.

Demo: carts and document search

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Activity 3

Follow a Requisition

Activity 3, Part 1

It’s been 10 days since you placed the order to replenish the beakers in the Biology storeroom. You are contacted by Dr. Bell and notified that the beakers have still not arrived. Who is responsible for reviewing and approving this order?

• Fiscal officer, primary, secondary delegates.

Activity 3, Part 2

It’s been 10 days since you placed the order to replenish the beakers in the Biology storeroom. You are contacted by Dr. Bell and notified that the beakers have still not arrived. Locate the Requisition in BUY.IU and use the PR Approvals section to review the status of the order. Log a Comment on the Requisition and request a status update from the current approver. Add the approver as an email recipient to ensure they see your Comment.

Activity 3, Part 2

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Wrap-up

Next steps:

• Talk to users in your department.
• Obtain list of frequently used account numbers and shipping addresses.
• Should you assign or submit carts?
• Setup your user profile in the production environment.
• Review your reference guide.
• Subscribe to the BUY.IU news list.
• Submit questions or issues using the BUY.IU Support Form.
• Sign up for additional training.

Additional training

Getting Started in BUY.IU Catalog Orders Receiving and Accounts Payable Non-Catalog Orders Check Requests

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