by Kateri Eisenhut | Sep 29, 2023 | News
Beginning 10/02/2023, Concur will update the visual theme of the signed-in web experience for SAP Concur and the mobile app. The new SAP Fiori® with Horizon visual design theme will include improved design consistency, light mode, dark mode, and high contrast theme...
by Jim Householder | Sep 11, 2023 | News
Effective September 1, 2023, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) contract with National Car Rental and Enterprise Rent-A-Car changed. Select features and updates from the new BTAA contract with the car rental companies are noted below: Business use Negotiated rates,...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Sep 6, 2023 | News
Effective July 1, Procurement Services and the Shared Services Center (SSC) partnered to provide end-to-end support for purchasing-related activities at UM-Flint. Planning for the transition began this past spring and involved close collaboration between...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Sep 6, 2023 | News
The Concur approval workflow has a set deadline of seven days. If a Concur expense report does not receive approval within this timeframe, the system will return the report to employees. Employees will receive a message notifying them that their expense report has...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Sep 6, 2023 | News
Lisa Koors, PCard coordinator, joined the PCard team in July. Lisa comes to us from Northern Kentucky University’s Procurement Department where she was a buyer/PCard coordinator and—before that—Procter & Gamble, where she worked with its corporate card...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Aug 28, 2023 | News
UPDATE 8/30/23 10:30 am: Procurement Services systems are beginning to come back online As ITS continues to work to resolve the U-M network outage issue, Procurement Services systems are beginning to come back online. Users should use normal procedures for all...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Aug 2, 2023 | News
Collegiate Travel Planners (CTP)—U-M’s designated travel partner—was able to obtain a refund of nearly $100,000 for over 200 eligible unused ticket credits from Delta and United Airlines. These ticket credits are from flights originally booked with Conlin Travel,...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Aug 2, 2023 | News
Earlier this summer, Collegiate Travel Planners (CTP), U-M’s designated travel partner, advised the university that the travel industry is experiencing a record number of flight delays and cancellations. By booking flights through CTP, U-M travelers can get...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Aug 1, 2023 | News
The contract under which U-M offers discounted car rental services to the university community expired on July 31, 2023, and is being renegotiated with an expectation that a new agreement will be in place on September 1, 2023. As a result—and due in large part to...
by Kateri Eisenhut | Aug 1, 2023 | News
Procurement Services held its second Buying Blue Community of Practice webinar on July 27, 2023. Nearly 200 attendees heard presentations on: U-M’s strategic sourcing program and its many benefits to the university. A new process in Procurement Services for reporting...
