SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION (SA) - “PATHWAY TO KNOWLEDGE”

LECTURE SERIES VI – INVOICE PAYMENT PROCESS

“HAS YOUR PAYMENT PROCESS DERAILED?”

SPEAKER: 

Mary Haak has 14 years service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  She began her career in NIH as an Information Technology Specialist, Office of Procurement Management (now OLAO) where she developed one of the most successful Electronic Commerce Programs in the federal government.  She currently serves as a Program/Management Analyst with the Clinical Center's Office of Purchasing & Contracts.  Mary's methodology for working Clinical Center's unpaid invoices served as the model for the Invoice Specialist role.  She assisted in the development of the training for invoice specialists, and works part time in Office of Financial Management to clear last-standing and complex invoicing problems.

TOPICS THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED:

·        Overview of the Invoice Payment Process

·        Requirements for a Proper Invoice

·        Requirements for Payment

       Buyers

       Requisitioners

       Finance

·        Holds & Disallowances

·        Reports & Troubleshooting

·        Questions and Answers

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: 

·        Simplified Acquisition staff including Purchasing Agents, P-Card Holders, Buyers and Approvers

·        All who are interested

TIME AND LOCATION:

This session is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 9:30am -11:30am, at the Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd -Conference Room A1-A2, Rockville, MD.  Be sure to bring your ID badge.

Click here to register. If you have any questions or need special accommodations, please contact Ms. Alfreda Mire via email at mirea@od.nih.gov or (301) 435-3904.

NOTE:

The Division of Simplified Acquisition Policy and Services has been spearheading lectures on various acquisition topics under its Pathways to Knowledge Program.  Lectures occur on a quarterly basis and count toward an acquisition individual’s (1102s, 1105s, 1106s), and NBS Approvers, PC-Holders and Card Approving Officials skills currency training requirement.  You are urged to keep paper records of your training, as well as to record your training in the Acquisition Consolidated Management Information System (ACMIS) at www.acmis.gov.   The ACMIS help desk number is (703) 805-2300 or via email at question@Pai.gov.   Your attendance at this and other Pathways to Knowledge lectures is strongly encouraged.