News

July 20, 2021
Suppliers who receive BearBuy purchase orders are required to submit invoices through Transcepta, the University’s e-invoicing partner. Transcepta helps streamline invoice processing and facilitate faster payment. More than 8,000 suppliers are registered to submit invoices through Transcepta. 


July 20, 2021
The state of California announced a ban on state-funded travel to five additional states: Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia.


July 16, 2021

On July 26, BearBuy will be updated with minor improvements to continue on the path of streamlining, simplifying and modernizing the user shopping experience.



July 16, 2021
BearBuy supplier Thermo Fisher Scientific has temporarily discontinued some chemicals and reagents. Read more to see the list of items and alternative suppliers.


July 16, 2021
An expanded Agilent product portfolio is now available to the University of California research community through Neta Scientific, Inc. See full article for more information.


July 16, 2021
BearBuy production downtime will take place between Friday, July 23, at 6 p.m. through Sunday, July 25, at 9 a.m. to upgrade from release version 21.1 to 21.2. To avoid delays, please complete all BearBuy requests prior to the system maintenance. BearBuy will be available on Monday, July 26.


June 11, 2021

In order to better track and manage our chemical and other hazardous materials purchases, three new commodity codes have been created and the existing Chemicals Commodity Code (00025 Chemicals-5220



June 11, 2021

In July, UCSF will introduce ChemCentral, a chemical management program that delivers commonly used chemicals to researchers and assists in managing inventory at safe levels.



June 11, 2021

In preparation for fiscal year end close, all BearBuy Match Exception Handlers and Voucher Approvers should approve/reject all vouchers pending in their queues.



June 2, 2021

Don't Just Think Local, Vacation Local

By Carol Tady, Communications & Customer Response Supervisor



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