Procure-to-Pay

Central Procurement provides support to MUSCP, Carolina Family Care and University Medical Associates of The Medical University of South Carolina (UMA) executive offices, to include College of Medicine (COM) purchases for UMA. The mission is to provide support service to care team members for purposes of providing excellent patient care. Central Procurement is responsible for contract negotiations, sourcing and procuring all equipment, furniture, materials, goods and services through a centralized and cost-effective process.

Purchasing has the following specific functions:

• Accurately understand the needs of clinics;
• Assist clinics in preparing specifications for goods and services for solicitations;
• Contract appropriate vendors for goods and services;
• Use appropriate acquisition methods to select the best products and services to meet the standardization requirements of MUSCP;
• Negotiate contract terms and conditions and commit MUSCP for purchases;
• Maintain good communications and relationships with both suppliers and clinics to meet the terms and needs.

Information regarding specific areas of Purchasing responsibility and services:

• Materials and Equipment procedures and policies
• Vendor representative guidelines

How to create requisitions in ERP system

• MUSCP Billing and Instructions
• MUSCP utilizes Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) for some supplier invoice processing via EDI.
• Accounts Payable also uses a centralized email address (umaaccountspayable@musc.edu) specifically for receiving purchase order (P.O.)-based invoices.