SAASB

Searching for Small Businesses for Federal Subcontracting Plans

By Staff Writer - February 19, 2020

**UPDATED**

On February 19, 2020, Heather Perry, Sustainable Procurement Program Manager and campus Small Business Officer explained the transition from Gateway Supplier Class Flags to UC's contracted Supplier Diversity database, Supplier.io Explorer, as your trusted source to validate and search for small and diverse vendors. Whether you're a Contracts and Grants Liaison, department purchaser for a federal contract, or are looking to support the UC's Economically and Socially Responsible spend goal, this tool will assist you!

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Money

Undergraduate Resource Reporting

By Staff Writer - September 12, 2019

**UPDATED**

On 8/28/19, Julie Portillo, Fiscal Manager, Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships, Andrew Height, Fiscal Analyst, Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships, and Steve Kriz, Assistant Director, Accounting Services, discussed Undergraduate Resource Reporting ("UGRR"). UGRR is the campus process for requesting payments to current undergraduate students for a scholarship, or any resource other than wages. They reviewed the policy and process as well as important changes for the 2019-20 academic year.

Topics included:

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SAASB

New Commodity Codes for Categorizing Purchases in Gateway

By Staff Writer - July 29, 2019

**UPDATED**

On July 29, 2019, Kathleen Yabsley, Gateway Systems Manager, discussed the new commodity codes, with detailed descriptions for categorizing purchases, that were added to the Gateway commodity code list. Accurately categorizing purchases allows us insight into how we spend UC funds, and in turn we can negotiate better discounts to redirect the funds for use in education and research.

[View the presentation deck]

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UCPath

Navigating Fiscal Close with UCPath

By Staff Writer - July 23, 2019

**UPDATED**

On July 18th, 2019, Jim Corkill and Leslie Griffin presented a discussion about navigating fiscal close with UCPath. Topics included prioritizing General Ledger issues, General Ledger FYE 6/30/19 challenges, General Ledger management plans for FY2020, assessment rates for FY2020, and more.

UCPath Functional Users* can review a recording of the session and copy of the presentation deck here: https://ucsb.app.box.com/folder/82385126609

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