Sourcing and SRM
As you know, Boston University’s Sourcing Department moved from SRM to Guided Buying in August 2020. Old open commitments related to a SRM requisition, or purchase order all need to be closed. As part of the closeout process of a grant, PAFO has always indicated that the department would need to work with Sourcing to close those commitments, but we would move the award to a closing status to prevent charges regardless of the commitment being closed.
In order to help Sourcing close old open commitments, PAFO will work with the staff of BUWorks to open old awards to allow the reduction to the open commitment. There are over 500 grants that this will impact and PAFO will work on them over the next several weeks doing small batches at a time to ensure there is no impact to you or your department. We wanted to make you aware that you may notice awards getting a status update that may not be returned to the closing status for up to a week.
For a definition of statuses please see the FAQs page on the Research Support site.