The UPST offers several training courses to campus stakeholders to drive process, technology adoption, and compliance. We encourage you to review all the information on this page to ensure that you select the training that meets your need.
For your training needs, please contact us and we will work to make sure you get the training you require.
BuyWays & PeopleSoft Access
Visit the Accessing BuyWays and PeopleSoft page to learn more about the available roles and how to get access to BuyWays and PeopleSoft.
Weekly Office Hours
UPST holds weekly office hours where you can get all your procurement-related questions answered!
Representatives from various teams (Accounts Payable, Bank Card, Contracts, Requisitions & Purchase Orders, Supplier Relationship Management, and Travel & Expense) will be available to speak with you.
Please ensure you register & share with your colleagues!
Office Hour Registration - Select one or more sessions to attend.
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Coffee with UPST
Expanding & Innovating Experiences
The President’s Office is constantly thinking of ways to enhance not only campus experiences, but those of our suppliers as well. With this commitment in mind, we cordially invite you to an exclusive coffee session where we will reveal our newest advancements in electronic payments and introduce our newest member, Buddy the Chatbot!
Join us for an insightful session on Thursday, April 25th, from 12 pm – 1pm, as we explore the details of these exciting launches.
This month’s Coffee with UPST will focus on:
- Recipient Select Plus: Discover how this new electronic payment system promises expanded options (PayPal, Zelle, and ACH) and faster transactions for both domestic and foreign individual suppliers.
- Buddy, the Chatbot: Learn about the capabilities of our chatbot and witness how it works.
Register for Coffee with UPST!
Training Sessions
Learn how to create, edit, submit and approve travel expense reports in PeopleSoft.
Learn how to upload your bank card statement in BuyWays and reallocate bank card transactions in PeopleSoft.
For NEW BuyWays users to learn how to set up their defaults, and create and submit requisitions (catalog and non-catalog orders).
This training is required to gain access to BuyWays. Please select the "How can I get access to BuyWays?" accordion to find your campus-specific actions.
Learn how to approve a requisition, change request, voucher/invoice, bank card statement, contract request, and contracts within BuyWays.
Learn how to use BuyWays to submit a Supplier Request Form to add/update suppliers.
Learn the automated process in BuyWays of entering a change order request directly into a current purchase order, enter direct payments and blanket orders.
Learn how to submit a contract request within BuyWays, what information you need to have, and what documents you need to upload for a seamless contract request process.
Concur
Has your campus/department been enrolled in Concur? Looking for training?
Please visit the Concur Rollout site for Expense, Travel, and Approver training.
Quartzy
Quartzy, a lab supply management platform, launched its punchout catalog in BuyWays on Monday, March 4th. For more information, please use one of the following resources: