Highlights of the new and improved features of Strategic Sourcing are presented in the presentations below. Click here to view Release Notes.
Release Date | Highlights | Download Presentation |
January 2025 |
• VIM: Added filter criteria for viewable / not-viewable items in the VIM. Added functionality to mark items as viewable and not viewable. • Insight Dashboard: Set the "Mark Item as Applicable/Non-Applicable" popup. • Rebate Management: Created rebates for contracts and contract items. • Fixed bugs with non-viewable items reappearing on VIM after contract end date updates and deletion of requisitions with a status of Sent to MMIS-PO Requested. |
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September 2024 |
• VIM: Showed all Vendor IDs in View by Corporation, All Views in a LOF or Favorite List, the corporation in a LOF and Favorite List, UOM. • Requisition Management: Implemented updates to prevent non-catalog ordering for inactive items and item master items. Added an Expense Code applicable to all Punchout items. • User Management: Updated the User Management Widget to display only enabled users. • Contract Management: Made the Contract Type column viewable, added functionality to display Price Difference and Percentage Change, and included the Primary Item Description for approvals. |
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July 2024 |
• New Vendor Summary Report: Updated to select and inactivate/activate overpayment and allow to inactivate specific line's overpayment. Added "Overpayment Status", "Inactive Reason", and "Date Modified" columns and allow filtering on these column. • Value Analysis Project: Added the "Select Non-normalized Items" and "Select Normalized Items" step in the grid/list layout in the "Select Item" form. Added the ability to filter data by period and Corporations, Cost Centers on Item table. |
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January 2024 |
• Requisition Management: Improvements to Copy Requisitions, and the Punch Out Process along with some General Enhancements. • Insight Dashboard: Change the default vendors from Top 20 to “ALL Vendors”. Added a New Export; Spend Under Management. • Contract Management: Items that are on an Expired Contracts, not associated to Organization Items and have no spend, will be hidden in the VIM. The items will be available in Contract Item View. |
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September 2023 |
• PO Line, PO Cover, and Receiving Comments will be displayed in Requisition Management for ASCS/Veradigm customers only. • MIMS Requisitions will display two types of comments: Standard Notes and User Comments. • Additional data elements in Requisition Management Formulary Override Report: Cost Center Name, UOM, Include FL3/FL4. • Attachment workflow improvement: Attachment process will repeat until successful. • New Export tab on New Insight Dashboard: Active Distinct VIM Items and Distinct Items by Zone. |
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June 2023 |
• Performance Improvements for these Processes: Contract Matching Approval, GL Load, VVM/VMM, Requisition Report, Duplicate Item Resolution. • Contract Management: Price Discrepancy View - approve and reject all will use filter criteria. • New Receipt Information for Requisition Outbound Integration - for Veradigm customers only. |
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March 2023 |
• New Status Not Purchased in 2 years for items listed in the Matrix, VIM, Favorite Lists, and New Non-Catalog. • A new setting to set priorities for HPG Contract Feed. • New Approval Path Icon. • Resolve Duplicate Item & Item Loading Process Improvements. |
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December 2022 |
• New Check Request Module for Coupa users only. |
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October 2022 |
• Requisition Management: Purchasing Inbox updates. • Insight: new Price Variance Report. • Data Management: Special Character handling enhancements. |
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July 2022 |
• Requisitioning: Performance Enhancements. • VIM: Ability to show Charge Code in the VIM. • Matrix: Restrict access to the Matrix. |
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January/February 2022 |
• Contract Management: service vendors; contract matching approvals. • Insight: dashboard logic; vendor summary exports. |
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October 2021 |
• New Sent to MMIS Requisition Status. • Enhanced allocation approval workflow. • Enhanced Approval Inbox workflow. • New Insight design - Vendor Performance Summary. |
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June 2021 |
• Refined the VIM search results sort order of formulary levels within formulary groups. The House icon (inventory indicator) is now accurate for the corporation selected on the left panel, improving the accuracy of inventory items selected by users in a multi-corporation environment. Additional indicators have been added to the VIM filter. • The GTIN in VIM Item Detail is now a hyperlink to the GTIN on AccessGUDID. • MSS can be configured to allow for cost allocation on requisition line items. Allocated cost can be approved by the impacted cost centers. |
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March 2021 |
• VIM filter for Contract information more accurately filters for "Under Contract" and "Not Under Contract". • Improved Contract Management performance when adding or editing contracts in Contract View. Contract processing icon add to alert users, and lock contract to further edits until processing is complete. • Computer-Based-Training courses can now be downloaded from the Learning Center for use in your Learning Management System (LMS). • In the Learning Center, What's New includes release highlights and links to MSS Quarterly Training presentations and recordings. |
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January 2021 |
• A new View option on Favorite List Management screen provides a list of the corporations and cost centers associated with the list. • New Requisition Formulary Override Report added to Requisition Management Standard Reports. • User default information is now included in the User Management export file. |
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September 2020 | • Ability to add duplicate items to a requisition in Requisition Management. | |
June 2020 |
• Contract auditing has been added to the Contract View in Contract Management. • Quarterly Business Review Reports can be exported from Insight. • Integration to Allscripts Point of Use Supply. |
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March 2020 |
• Improvements to Requisition Types allows for customer defined codes for alternate approval paths. • Additional fields on the requisition header to capture project and sub-project codes. • Contract auditing has been added to Load Data in Content Management. |
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January 2020 |
• Ability to edit new non-catalog items in the Approval Inbox. • Ability to add items using Organization Item ID in the Approval Inbox. • ASCS Only – Contract header on contracts created w/o items are now integrated to ASCS. |
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September 2019 |
• Manufacturer catalog number column has been added to the Requisition Cart and Review Order dialog box for LOFs and favorite lists. • Revenue Codes are included with HCPCS codes in VIM. • Additional edit capabilities in the Contract View for loaded contracts, local agreements, and future dated contracts. |
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June 2019 |
• Ability to export contract spend details using the Export feature in Contract View. • Insight export file format changed from .csv to .txt. • Ability to exclude items from Applicable Spend in Insight by expense code. |
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March 2019 |
• Ability to restrict users from ordering from the VIM. • Ability to delete requisitions created by other users. • ASCS Only – ability to update ASCS par forms from the VIM. • Ability to export Insight reports for specific corporations. |