Purchasing Tools

CSE-IT provides and maintains software to assist departments in streamlining their purchasing processes. These tools provide additional features to enhance University-level processes and tools.

What’s Included

• Support and maintenance for purchasing workflow tools (known as ePurch or the CEMS Purchasing Tool) and the associated intranet applications.
• Support and maintenance for the Chart of Accounts application, which is used to support the purchasing tool.
• Support for units outside the College of Science and Engineering will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis

What’s Not Included

• [Coming Soon] New feature development for these tools
• Departments are responsible for establishing and documenting their purchasing processes

What You Need to Do

• For issues with the purchasing tool or chart of accounts, contact csehelp@umn.edu