Purchasing & Contracting

1. Purchasing & Contracting May 2013 Finance Workshop

2. Topics • Avoid Being Scammed • Online Ordering

3. Avoid Being Scammed • Know who you’re dealing with • Say No to high pressure sales tactics • Ask for literature to be mailed to you • Purchasing & Contracting never recommends suppliers “cold call” you • Use an authorized PPS Purchase Order or ordering system. • Too Good To Be True? It probably is…

4. Too Good To Be True, cont’d • I found a camera online. What a deal!

5. After review on the internet… “I told them cancel the order.  I  also emailed them to cancel the order. I thought I was done with them but they had my credit card number.  Six weeks later I receive an email that my order was shipped and they charged my account.” “They... called to "confirm" the order, once that was confirmed they proceeded to push accessory products at me.” “I was lied to! Billed for items I didn't want under false pretense and customer service is worthless.” www.gooddeal!.com

6. Questions?

7. Online OrderingeCommerce • How Far We’ve Come • Where we’re at • What’s next?

8. How Far We’ve Come

9. Where we’re at

10. What’s Next? Options: Private Marketplace KCDA Blanket Purchase Orders Standard Purchase Orders

11. Questions?