Strategic Sourcing

What is Strategic Sourcing?

It is a UC systemwide collaborative effort to increase customer satisfaction by enhancing product quality and service levels, while leveraging UC buying power to significantly lower total costs. The Strategic Sourcing Program uses the joint purchasing power of all the UC campuses, medical centers, and labs to obtain substantial pricing discounts from regional and national suppliers of commonly used commodities. More about the systemwide strategic sourcing effort can be found on the UC Strategic Sourcing site.

The local Strategic Sourcing group provides the following, to ensure success of the program on our campus:

Local Area Strategic Sourcing
UCD Buy agreement coordination
UC Davis Small Business Program coordination
UC Strategic Sourcing coordination

Locating Strategic Sourcing Agreements

To locate strategic sourcing agreements that can be used by your department, run the Agreement Lookup (34) in DaFIS Decision Support. When running the query, be sure that Show Chartwide Agreements and Show Campuswide Agreements are checked. Visit the How Do I Use a Purchasing Agreement guide for step-by-step instructions on ordering from and paying against strategic sourcing agreements.

Who is our campus Strategic Sourcing team?

Our campus team consists of:

Nicole Lack, Team Lead, 747-3883
Sherry Mancilla, 747-3873
Josie Vanta, 747-3874

Please contact one of us if you have any questions about the Strategic Sourcing program.

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