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Service Excellence Celebration 2000


Project Title:
Procurement Services Fast-Track Group

Project Description: When Procurement Services determined that 80 percent of all paperwork generated by the purchasing process accounted for only 20 percent of total purchasing dollars spent, the decision was made to streamline paper flow and eliminate non-value-added procedures. The resulting initiative—Fast-Track Group—is a one-stop, one-step processing center where all procedures needed to make a payment are handled in a single process. The project has resulted in a significant reduction in paperwork (some 10,800 fewer typed purchase orders in the first seven months of the program), a decrease in invoice processing time (payments to suppliers are processed within forty-eight hours), and improved customer service.

Complete Project Description (pdf)

 

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