Keith Paddy, Director, Service Delivery and Special Projects
(847) 467-6963
k-paddy@northwestern.edu
William Henley, Purchasing Analyst
(847) 467-0740
william.henley@northwestern.edu
eProcurement Solutions Team
Procurement and Payment Services is responsible for many back-end purchasing processes within NUFinancials.
The eProcurement Solutions team within PPS ensures transactions are in compliance with University Purchasing Policies.
eProcurement Solutions Team Duties
- Process Change Orders
- Review and Approval of Blanket Purchase Order Submissions
- Manage the university's e-Procurement Platform, iBuyNU, including:
- price validations
- reviewing and resolving match exceptions
- reviewing and approving hosted catalogs
- Review and resolve Match Exceptions in iBuyNU
- Monitor the Sourcing Workbench for requisitions that may not have an active vendor
- Process purchase orders placed on hold for further processing
- Monitor NUFinancials for failed catalog and non-catalog purchase orders
- Generate and monitor reports needed by Procurement and Payment Services for system cleanup, post audit purposes and internal controls.
- Assist eProcurement Manager with supplier enablement activities.
- Assist Procurement Administrators with bid process by attending committee meetings when necessary, creating documents to support the proposal process and summarizing proposal information.