Removal of NHS Supply Chain Catalogue from Oracle

Dear System User,

Last year, the Procurement department took the decision to place the ‘Stock’ NHS Supply Chain catalogue on our Oracle purchasing system. It was in the hope that this would provide a better procurement process for wards and department end users in the fact that all procurement requisitions, both stock and non-stock, could be placed using the one procurement system.

Over the past few months it has become evident that this process has caused many issues to end-users. In particular national and global supply chain issues have led to many product lines within NHS Supply Chain showing with delivery delays, suspensions, out of stocks and product lines being discontinued. Unfortunately the NHS Supply Chain catalogue through Oracle does not show this information to end users, which we fully appreciate has caused some operational issues and frustration to end-users when you are under the assumption that products have been ordered and are due and expected for delivery.

Therefore the Procurement department have taken the decision to remove the NHS Supply Chain Catalogue from Oracle as of Monday 23rd May 2022, and will return to using the two separate purchasing systems – NHS Supply Chain directly (for stock products) and Oracle (for non-stock requests). Links to both systems are on the Trust Intranet page ‘Clinical Systems and Apps’. By doing this, end users that use the NHS Supply Chain system will have live information on stock product availability and alternative options to out of stock and discontinued product lines.

Over the past few weeks our system team have been checking through and ensuring that the two procurement systems are updated and end user details, department details and approval hierarchies are set correctly. New users to NHS Supply Chain will have been contacted by our team and will received log-in details and training materials for the NHSSC system in preparation of the move back to separate systems.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused to our system users.

Should anyone have any queries, please contact our Procurement System’s team via e-mail on: stsft.oracleteamdistribution@nhs.net

Our system team will also be trialling the running of a number of on-line MS Teams training sessions and general procurement system Q&A sessions which users are welcome and encouraged to attend. The dates and links are listed below.

Wednesday 25th May

10am -  Procurement Systems Q&A – Please click here to join

2pm  - NHS Supply Chain System training – Please click here to join

3pm  - Oracle Non-stock System Training – Please click here to join

Friday 10th June

10am – NHS Supply Chain System Training – Please click here to join

11am – Oracle Non-Stock System Training – Please click here to join

2pm – Procurement Systems General Q&A – Please click here to join

Thanks,

Ian Graham

Deputy Procurement Operational Manager