Creating Opportunities through the Supplier Diversity Initiative
2023-09-22
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Suppliers play a critical role in enabling the university to realize its mission and live its values. Given the critical role of the supplier and Stanford's decentralized purchasing approach which allows individual departments to make purchasing decisions that are tailored to their specific needs...
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PTA Manager Enhancement: Capital Projects Closeout and Cancellation
2023-09-20
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Financial Management Services (FMS) has partnered with University IT (UIT) on an enhancement project to streamline, standardize, and automate the capital projects closeout and cancellation process by adding new functionality to PTA Manager. PTA Manager is a system in Oracle Financials that enables...
Announcing the new PTAC Closeout functionality to PTA Manager.
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Budget Management Transformation Project
2023-08-28
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Stanford’s University Budget Office (UBO), in partnership with University IT (UIT), Financial Management Services (FMS), and university stakeholders, is undertaking a multi-year initiative to enhance the foundation of financial management. The project includes the launch of the new Cardinal Planning...
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Updated Employment Verification Process and Form I-9
2023-08-10
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Federal law requires that every employer who recruits, refers for a fee, or hires an individual for employment in the U.S. must complete Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. This article outlines recent changes to the federal Form I-9 and the university's verification process to help...
This article outlines recent changes to the federal Form I-9 and the university’s verification processes to help departments verify their employee's identity and employment authorization.
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Merchant Services Transformation Project
2023-08-01
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Merchant Services Transformation Project The Merchant Services (MS) Program manages, supports, and mitigates risk for payments collected digitally and via credit card at Stanford. MS is currently supported through a collaboration between three distinct university groups within Business Affairs...
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Streamlined Delivery and Pick Up Options for Will Call Payments
2023-07-31
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Effective July 31, 2023, a streamlined process and tools will make it easier to receive Will Call check payments for purchase order invoices and Expense Requests transactions. About the new process After a Will Call payment is requested for an Expense Requests transaction or a purchase order invoice...
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PTA Manager Enhancement: Closing Non-Sponsored PTAs Using Bulk Uploads
2023-07-28
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In January 2023, Stanford Financial Management Services (FMS) partnered with University IT (UIT) to launch the PTA Manager close request feature for non-sponsored PTA segments, which improved efficiency, internal controls, and data quality/accuracy. On July 31, new functionality was added that...
Recent PTA Manager enhancements have added functionality to close non-sponsored PTAs and PTA segments, giving users a more convenient and streamlined user experience.
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Cash and Check Deposit Enhancements
2023-07-24
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The Office of the Treasurer (OOT) within Financial Management Services (FMS) is supporting improvements to how cash and checks are deposited and developing enhancements that are being rolled out across the university. These changes primarily affected CASHNet processes used by the campus community...
This project involves identifying and implementing system and/or process solutions for all deposit streams currently relying on the CASHNet system.
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July Enhancements to the PCard Module
2023-07-14
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In an ongoing effort to improve and streamline the Stanford Purchasing Card (PCard) experience, several enhancements to the Purchasing Card module within Oracle Financials will launch on July 17. Additionally, to continually improve and support purchasing practices and policies that are compliant...
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New Course Now Required to Access iProcurement
2023-06-22
The purchase of goods and services plays a big part in helping to achieve the university’s mission. Faculty and staff who make purchases have a key role in stewarding the university’s resources. Stanford Financial Management Services (FMS) recently launched FIN-0420: Preferred Purchasing Methods to...
New FIN-0420: Preferred Purchasing Methods course now required to access iProcurement
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