{"id":129830,"date":"2020-07-30T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=129830"},"modified":"2023-02-07T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:30:26","slug":"questions-and-bw-answers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/purch\/questions-and-bw-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"BW Answers to Common Procurement Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few of the questions commonly asked about procurement (SAP SRM and Guided BUying) data and the reports to use to find corresponding answers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions Regarding Purchase Orders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is my PO closed?<\/li>\n<li>Has my PO been paid?<\/li>\n<li>Was my PO processed or do I need to place the order again in Guided BUying?<\/li>\n<li>What vendor ID was used on my previous PO?<\/li>\n<li>How do I see what colleagues in my organization have purchased?<\/li>\n<li>What funding sources were charged for this Purchase Requisition (PR) or Purchase Order (PO)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Answer<\/u>: run the Purchasing Document Lifecycle (PDL) report. A detailed description of this report is provided in the Help Guide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/files\/2020\/07\/BW-How-to-Run-Purchasing-Document-Lifecycle-Report.pdf\">BW How to Run \u2013 Purchasing Document Lifecycle Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions About Suppliers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much did we spend with supplier X?<\/li>\n<li>Has a supplier been paid? If so, when and how much were they paid?<\/li>\n<li>How much has our department spent via PO vs non-PO invoices?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Answer<\/u>: run the Boston University Spend (BUS) report. The report is described in this Help Guide: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/files\/2020\/07\/BW-How-to-Run-BU-Spend-Report.pdf\">BW How to Run &#8211; BU Spend (BUS) report<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Note: the first two questions can also be answered using the PDL report.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few of the questions commonly asked about procurement (SAP SRM and Guided BUying) data and the reports to use to find corresponding answers. Questions Regarding Purchase Orders: Is my PO closed? Has my PO been paid? Was my PO processed or do I need to place the order again in Guided BUying?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":0,"parent":95298,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129830"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143631,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129830\/revisions\/143631"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}