{"id":23,"date":"2025-02-03T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T01:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:42:53","slug":"procurement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"custom-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"custom-p2p-bar\" class=\"custom-p2p-bar-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- Our Service Section --><\/p>\n<section id=\"custom-our-service\" class=\"custom-our-service\">\n<div class=\"custom-our-service-inner\">\n<h2>Our Service<\/h2>\n<p>Procurement is responsible for onboarding suppliers, negotiating supplier contracts, training Ariba users, answering portal tickets, and approving Purchase Requisitions in Ariba to process orders while delivering a quality customer experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- 3 \u00b7 LIST REDIRECT --><\/p>\n<section id=\"list-redirect\" class=\"list-redirect-section\">\n<h2>Searching for Suppliers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"list-redirect-inner\">\n<p>Search for suppliers in Guided BUying through the tiles or by using the search bar. In the search bar on the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mybuworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"links-contrast-adjust2\">Guided BUying homepage<\/a>, type in the supplier name, do not use abbreviations, and be as general as possible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"list-redirect-buttons\"><a href=\"\/p2p\/files\/2025\/07\/Browsing-and-Searching-in-Guided-BUying_2025-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"list-redirect-button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/p2p\/files\/2025\/07\/pdf1.png\" style=\"margin-right: 7px;\" height=\"50px\" width=\"50px\" alt=\"PDF Icon\" \/><b>Browsing &amp; Searching in Guided BUying<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/p2p\/files\/2025\/07\/Engaging-a-Consultant-at-BU_2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"list-redirect-button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/p2p\/files\/2025\/07\/pdf1.png\" style=\"margin-right: 7px;\" height=\"50px\" width=\"50px\" alt=\"PDF Icon\" \/><b>How to Engage a Consultant<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/registered-supplier-database\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"list-redirect-button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/p2p\/files\/2025\/07\/pdf1.png\" style=\"margin-right: 7px;\" height=\"50px\" width=\"50px\" alt=\"PDF Icon\" \/><b>Registered Supplier Database<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"my-custom-anchor\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"faq\" class=\"list-faq\"><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Service Procurement is responsible for onboarding suppliers, negotiating supplier contracts, training Ariba users, answering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24531,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/p2p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}