General Stores New Ordering System Announcement

To: General Stores customers
Subject: New ordering systems

As was mentioned in an earlier email, ordering changes will soon take place for our General Stores customers. If you order from General Stores and/or OfficeMax, please read the entire message.

Note: Pcard ordering from OfficeMax will not change. If you would like to be set up for OfficeMax Pcard ordering please email gary-anderson@uiowa.edu.

In May, our MIGS ordering system will be replaced by eBuy. eBuy will enable staff to order from the OfficeMax Web using their university account numbers. In preparation for eBuy’s release, training has been scheduled across campus. Click here for details.

In August our SIGS system for ordering items stocked at General Stores will be replaced by the Preqs application. You will be notified about training, which will be scheduled this summer.

To have access to these new ordering systems, complete the Preq Access Form: www.uiowa.edu/~purchase/purchase/P_Forms/RequesterForm_Stores.pdf
and submit it to UI Purchasing JoAnn Dolezal joann-dolezal@uiowa.edu or Chris Leichty chris-leichty@uiowa.edu by emailing a scanned document or via Campus Mail by April 24, 2009.

• If you are already a requester, update your information and complete the form to gain access to the General Stores Catalog for Preq ordering. This is for the new system that replaces SIGS.

• If you are a new requester please check the new requester check box and complete the form.

Our goal is for all General Stores customers to place their orders on-line. In the future General Stores will not accept faxed or paper orders. We will work with departments to make this transition as easy as possible.

Please refer to www.uiowa.edu/~purchase/purchase/eBuyAnnc.htm for more information including updates and training schedules.