UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 14, Page 3
December 12, 1991
Units can track purchasing on mainframe

     Purchasing information is available online to University
personnel with access to the administrative mainframe. With the
Purchasing Information Query System, specific purchase requisition
and purchase order information- including item descriptions,
account encumbrances and payments on orders-can be viewed.
     Also available is Purchase Order With Check (POWC)
information, including vendor, check accounts and the date checks
cleared the bank.
     The new purchasing query is MINS restricted, allowing
personnel to view information related only to accounts to which
they have been given access by account administrators. Information
can be browsed by account code or selected by requisition, purchase
order or POWC number.
     All information is available online as soon as it is entered
by either the Purchasing or Accounts Payable offices, and these are
updated on a daily basis.
     Selected academic and administrative departments have been
using a test version of the system for the past six months.
     The version now available incorporates suggestions from many
of these users.
     Access to the query can be requested by account administrators
for departmental personnel by sending an e-mail request to Marianne
Ambler in Computing and Network Services
(Marianne.Ambler@mvs.udel.edu).
     For more information, contact Tory Windley at 451-8291.