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Purchasing

Purchasing is responsible for managing the acquisition of commodities and services.

Strategic Plan and Emphasis

 SFA1: Operational Excellence
o Improve the efficiency and productivity of operations through the use of technology,
innovation and continual business process improvement.

Future Goals in FY 2023-2024

 Integrate a third party payment processing company that will reduce/eliminate risk
associated with vendor onboarding and the verification process
 Improve SLA response times, and enhance internal support. Currently, SLA’s are not being
met 32% of the time
 Bring contract management across the city to once central location that will be self
service for our internal customers. Based on our internal survey this is one of the most
needed requests.
Prior Year Accomplishments for FY 2022-2023

 Played a vital role in the onboarding of Tyler Munis.
 Established SLA’s on contracts and purchasing requests.
 Awarded the Achievement of Excellence by the National Procurement Institute for best
practices.
 Held a training to discuss the functionality of VSS and Bonfire to external vendors.

Major Budget Items

2022-2023 2023-2024
 Addition of full Purchasing Agent position.  Addition of Contract Analyst position.

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