Procurement second purchase order

orders (in millions of

The Procurement and Travel Section and other units should be encouraged to prepare procurement plans and the use of blanket contracts expanded.

Subscriptions and standing orders

Goods and services were procured, and payments made, without following the established procedures for procurement and without issuing purchase orders

The mission assets module provides the link to the procurement system and includes procurement information such as requisition and purchase order numbers, original purchase price and the length of serviceable life.

Ex post facto purchase order.

The second purchase order, for 0.56 million litres, was funded through a different contribution advice form.

10. Simplified, generic, harmonized financial regulations for procurement have been developed by the Working Group on Procurement under the Task Force.

Procurement first purchase order

The management and staff of the Procurement and Logistics Division continue to focus on the reduction of procurement processing times for all functions, especially the processing times between the issuance of the purchase requisition and purchase order, the approval of purchase orders and the distribution of all documents to the suppliers.

(xii) Procurement services posting of procurement plans and upcoming procurement opportunities on the Division's website preparation and issuance of tenders presentation of cases to the Headquarters Committee on Contracts, including review of procurement procedures being proposed and conducted by offices away from Headquarters and peacekeeping and other field missions award of purchase orders and contracts and negotiation and execution of contracts for the procurement of goods and services

(c) Where requisitions are prepared by procurement staff they should be approved by project managers prior to processing and this approval should be formally evidenced (para. 31)

(a) Piecemeal purchases At ESCAP, 1,178 purchase orders were placed for nine categories of items in 1996 1997.

All requisitions are pre encumbered and purchase orders obligated electronically to ensure that funding is available before commitments are made.

For IDC Develop and review an overall hardware procurement plan and review first order of equipment

Develop and review an overall hardware procurement plan and review first order of equipment

UNOPS considers that this function, which allows changes to be made to payee details, is necessary in respect of its imprest system a generic purchase order is generated to authorize imprest account holders to make use of the funds, then, as the funds are used, individual purchase orders are processed for disbursements on the basis of the approved generic purchase order.

The current budget (2004 2005) increases in dollar terms again resulting in even larger procurement spending with a steady state in number of purchase orders to be raised.

Procurement and contracting

Annual procurement planning

174. Out of the 338 purchase orders issued, approval for 130 (38 per cent) was on an ex post facto basis, indicating that the purchases had been made without prior approval.

(b) The acquisition of vehicles under a global purchase order resulted in a lower cost per vehicle compared to the standard cost utilized in the budget

(b) Purchase order No. 9613 dated 20 October 1993, for 560,000 litres at 788,918 delivery period, 22 November 1993 to 15 January 1994.

Table 3. Cost effectiveness of procurement services in 2002

(b) Purchase orders processed

For example, the processing time for vehicles was reduced by 26 per cent, computer and prefabricated buildings by 30 per cent and generator sets and pharmaceutical products by 54 per cent.

(a) Purchase order No. 9085 dated 13 July 1993, for 1,015,000 litres at 1,505,558 delivery period, 13 August to 25 October 1993

10. The Advisory Committee believes that the staffing levels of the Procurement and Transportation Division, in proportion to the volume of procurement orders, are within an acceptable range.

173. The Board apos s review of the Tribunal s procurement system disclosed that although 338 purchase orders had been issued for the 10 month period ended 31 October 1996, adequate case files had not been kept by the Procurement Section.

This approach could also contribute to the achievement of the United Nations procurement policy goals of placing more of its procurement orders in a wider geographical area, including the developing countries.

VIII. Procurement, inventory management and disposal

In its procurement for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) (UNCHS), for 3 categories of stationery, 45 orders were placed in 1997.

I've put AlkaSeltzer down on my list.

Evolve standards of measuring efficiency in procurement

All purchase orders are subject to general conditions.

The Board recommended, and the Office agreed, that where requisitions are prepared by procurement staff they should be approved by project managers prior to processing and that this approval should be formally evidenced.

These include better procurement planning by requisitioning units, streamlining the procurement process in the Procurement Division and by the Headquarters Committee on Contracts and making necessary changes to the procurement framework, including regulations, rules and refinements in the Procurement Manual.

This total number (34) reflected the redeployment of two posts from the Procurement Division to the Accounts Division following the transfer of the invoice processing function.

Examples of possible indicators include turn around time of purchase order following requisition raised by the project manager or field office as a measure of efficiency and achievement of at least the level of discount identified in the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office catalogue for certain commonly procured items as a measure of economy.

Review requirements for the procurement of equipment to be purchased in 1998 and make recommendations as appropriate.

In addition, process efficiency should be factored in to the analysis, especially with respect to procurement cycles, such as the time lag between issuance of a purchase authorization and release of a purchase order or between the latter and the actual delivery of goods and services to end users.

As indicated in annex VI to the report, the volume of procurement orders processed by the Procurement and Transportation Division was 396.4 million in 1995, with 24 Professional and 37 General Service staff in the Commodity Procurement Section.

The new Chief Procurement Officer has introduced suitable and adequate measures that ensure the timely processing of requisitions.

15. Where requisitions are prepared by procurement staff they should be approved by project managers prior to processing, and this approval should be formally evidenced (para. 31).