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University College London Trims Overhead and Optimizes Spending Power

Overview University College London (UCL) has over 19,000 students from more than 140 countries, and over 4,000 academic and research staff. UCL wanted to cut out duplication, simplify order processing, reduce errors, improve access to data and promote best value procurement. The challenge was to optimize spending by taking advantage of centrally negotiated contracts for scientific items and generic requirements and leverage value of existing investment in Oracle Purchasing. UCL rolled out Oracle iProcurement to 270 users, taking advantage of Oracle's intuitive Web-based requisitioning functionality to ensure rapid go-live while minimizing need for user training.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2007	Downloads	3
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Procurement - Purchasing, E-procurement

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