Tips for navigating Procurement’s new website

As you may have noticed, in September 2015 the Division of Financial Affairs (DFA) launched a new website. We’ve heard your feedback about how it’s sometimes hard to determine where to look for what you need, so here are some tips to help you navigate the updated Procurement website.

Home Page Features

• Tool Box: Links to e-SHOP and the Cornell Travel Portal website, and a Procurement-only Site search are available at the top the Procurement home page in the gray box to the right.

• Quick links are available in the center of the Procurement home page for Employees, Service Centers & Units, and Suppliers. These quick links are determined by the pages you use most.

• News & Events, located under the quick links on the home page, is where you’ll find updates from us about workshops and changes to the buying manual, as well as other news features.
• Contact information is located at the bottom of our home page and all of our webpages, along with a link to our Contacts page, where you’ll find a list of agents.

Suppliers and Products and Services Information

• Products and Services: In the Products and Services Information section, under For Buyers, you’ll find information about purchasing specific types of products and services that might require special preparation or handling, such as cellular phones, computers, and graphics and printing. These pages used to be part of the supplier list on the old website. These recently updated pages are cross-linked with relevant supplier pages.
• Caterers: Caterers and restaurants are listed in the Products and Services Information under Catering and Event Space Rental. Email contacts have been added to the Caterer and Restaurant list.
• Supplier List: To find preferred and contract suppliers, use the new Supplier List. This listing allows you to filter the table by supplier type, commodity, and supplier name, and you can sort the table by any of the header rows. Watch for more updates to the supplier pages.

Other Tools and Programs

• Credit Card Programs: Information about procurement card and corporate card is now available under For Buyers in the Credit Cards section.
• Contracts: Contracts for Services are in the Forms section under Tools and Forms.

Also, we are pleased to announce that Procurement tools have been added to DFA’s Business Tools page, along with a Procurement News feed.