UCSF Supply Chain Management (SCM) recently hosted colleagues from University of California  Santa Cruz (UCSC) for a visit to UCSF’s Logistics facility at Oyster Point on Wednesday, October 29. Josh Martin, Doug Lang, and Gregg Edgar from UCSC Financial Affairs spent the morning receiving a tour of the warehouse and some in-depth briefings on UCSF’s “last mile” package delivery program and fleet electrification efforts, along with other logistics areas of interest. SCMers who participated in the visit included Justin Sullivan, Mel Maxwell, Andrew Clark, Charles Sabia, Mark Choi, David Grubbe, Andrew Alcazar, and Trevor Green.

The visit focused on the UCSF’s package delivery program, where SCM-Logistics provides “last mile” delivery for packages ordered by campus customers from UCSF’s preferred vendors. During the visit, the team discussed the history of the program, vendor agreements, systems, and the process that enables the SCM-Logistics team to successfully deliver of over 11,000 packages a month to roughly 2,500 unique delivery stops across the UCSF campus. 

The visit was a great information exchange among UC colleagues as UCSC explores the possibility of implementing a similar program on their campus. "We were so impressed with the efforts that the UCSF SCM team has taken to improve their campus logistics operation," said Gregg Edgar, Director of Enterprise Solutions at UCSC. "Such a great opportunity for us to learn as we work to improve logistics for UCSC." 

SCM invites everyone to learn more about the package delivery program at Package Delivery Program | Supply Chain Management.