The January NIS Procurement Training classes have been added to the calendar:

For a complete listing of courses, locations, and start times or to register for any of the NIS training courses navigate to this website: http://www.das.state.ne.us/nis/availtraining/

If you have trouble logging into the website, or have any questions on the scheduling of training, please contact Julie Dabydeen via email: jdabydee@notes.state.ne.us

Procurement - Full Scope

Wednesday, January 7
Thursday, January 8
Tuesday, January 13
Thursday, January 15
Tuesday, January 20
Tuesday, January 27

This training has been modified to best utilize your agency's time. We strongly encourage your agency to have the team of people doing Procurement attend the training together. We believe our training will be more effective if we get our information out to teams of people rather than individuals.

This course is two half day seminars.

The morning session is designed for NIS users and supervisors to learn about statutes and the process of procuring goods and services. We are opening this session up to about 20 people. During the morning session you will hear directly from DAS Material Division, State Purchasing Bureau on:

• LB 626
• DAS Material Division, State Purchasing Bureau procurement process
• Commodity purchases
• Entering and purchasing from a service contract will be fully demonstrated

The afternoon session is geared toward the actual users of the system. We have 12 work stations at which data is entered into the system. We encourage supervisors and those who may not actually use the system to observe and participate in the afternoon session. During the afternoon you will practice:

• Purchasing a commodity
• Generating a service contract
• Creating a purchase order from an existing contract
• Running and then viewing purchasing reports

The DAS Material Division, State Purchasing Bureau will have a representative at each training to help answer questions.

Web Based Training

Please remember, if you have not yet completed System and Reporting Basics Web Based Training please do so before attending classroom training. Web Based Training can be found at: http://www.das.state.ne.us/nis/availtraining/webbased.html. The only exception is for those taking the System Basics course.

The NIS Support Team
http://www.das.state.ne.us/nis/