UC Davis recently completed its annual certification of buildings and facilities with completed state capital projects and deferred maintenance related to California Senate Bill 820.

The PDF forms used to justify an airfare upgrade and to justify exceeding the lodging rate limit have been replaced by a more streamlined process within AggieExpense. Airfare and lodging expenses are governed by UC Policy G-28.

The new fields are viewable in the expense line when selecting Airfare or Lodging expense types.

Please note the update outlined below applies only to Davis campus departments and School of Medicine/School of Nursing, not to UC Davis Health or UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Health and ANR should continue with their current processes.

Last year, the UC Davis School of Medicine received a grant to pilot a National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Modular system and show proof of its capabilities.  Supply Chain Management partnered early on to assist with procurement, service and storage needs to ensure that the demonstration schedule was met.  

The current Administration recently announced significant tariffs that will impact nearly all trading partners of the United States.

Considering the uncertainty this creates, it is imperative that we take proactive measures to mitigate disruptions. 

The most effective and actionable step is to prioritize the use of UC systemwide contracted suppliers whenever possible.

Beginning Monday, March 31, a new webform will be used to make requests for Carve Outs to UC’s Covered Services policy. 

The form requires much of the same information previously requested, but is simplified in the following ways:

In a recent letter to the UC Davis community, Chancellor May requested leaders to continue to review the need for travel in their units and reduce travel and other expenses as much as feasible.

Need office supplies, toner, or printer cartridges? The ODP catalog in Aggie Enterprise has you covered!

Office supplies available from ODP include writing supplies, files/folders/binders, storage items, calendars and planners, labels/label markers, mailing supplies, presentation boards, tapes/adhesives, and arts and crafts supplies.  

ODP also offers a wide variety of toner and printer cartridges.  Purchasing these items from ODP provides multiple benefits, including: 

PaymentWorks will be a new supplier portal for streamlining the supplier onboarding process. Implementation is scheduled for Monday, March 10, 2025.  This new platform will replace the current vendor add process completed in Aggie Enterprise. Suppliers will onboard with PaymentWorks, and then the vendor data will be transmitted to Aggie Enterprise.

A new way to pay honoraria and research subjects will be implemented on Monday, February 3rd, 2025. 

Candex is the name of the supplier platform that allows one time payments for these types of transactions.  On the Aggie Enterprise Requisitions screen, a Candex tile will be available in the All Punchouts section, and allow employees to process honoraria and research subject payments without the need for the payees to be in the university supplier database.