{"id":95298,"date":"2015-11-12T17:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T22:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=95298"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:49:54","slug":"purch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/purch\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Guides for Procurement Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2016\/09\/shopping122.png\" alt=\"shopping122\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\" wp-image-101377 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/files\/2016\/09\/shopping122.png 512w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/files\/2016\/09\/shopping122-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/files\/2016\/09\/shopping122-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>Business Warehouse (BW) reports contain a great deal of useful information related to <strong>Guided <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BU<\/span>ying<\/strong>. This page provides a table of contents for the various BW resources available among the Help Guides and reporting training sessions that have a connection to the procurement process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Report Documentation<\/h3>\n<p>The reports related to purchasing are described in detail on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/purch\/reports\/\">Purchasing Report page<\/a>, which\u00a0provides links to documents that contain a broad range of information, including descriptions, views of sample output, definitions of Characteristics and Key Figures.<\/p>\n<h3>Job Aids<\/h3>\n<p>As the category name suggests, Job Aids are intended to help you do your job. They are guides that target business questions commonly asked in the context of procurement reports and associated\u00a0data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/purch\/job-aids\/\">View Available Job Aids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Reference Information<\/h3>\n<p>A variety of BW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/purch\/reference-materials\/\">procurement reference materials are available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Training for Procurement Reporting<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/training\/register\/index.php?admingroup_id=22&amp;course_id=1242\">Introduction to Reporting for Shoppers and Approvers<\/a> &#8211; this is the basic course that you should attend if you need to track departmental Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, invoices, and payment activity.The course is offered once per month.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Library Table of Contents (not specific to procurement)<\/h3>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t find the Help guide that you were looking for among these procurement materials?\u00a0View a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/guide-list\/\">list of all available BW Help Guides<\/a>\u00a0in the Document Library<\/p>\n<h3>Sourcing &amp; Procurement Resources<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sourcing\/\">Sourcing &amp; Procurement web site<\/a> provides an array of useful resources including help guides, instructional videos, and policy documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Warehouse (BW) reports contain a great deal of useful information related to Guided BUying. This page provides a table of contents for the various BW resources available among the Help Guides and reporting training sessions that have a connection to the procurement process. &nbsp; Report Documentation The reports related to purchasing are described in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10910,"featured_media":0,"parent":94088,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95298"}],"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\/10910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95298"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145122,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95298\/revisions\/145122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}