Oracle Financials and iProcurement update

Due to technical issues with Oracle Financials LIVE, some users have been unable to raise and approve orders in line with the current upgrade timetable. To allow work to be completed, the timetable will now be amended as follows:

•Thursday, November 27 – Oracle Financials and iProcurement will be available until 5pm

•Friday, November 28 to Tuesday, December 2 – System Unavailable

•Wednesday, December 3 – System available from 10amPayment of InvoicesPlease ensure that all invoices are entered no later than 5pm today (Wednesday 26 November). All invoices entered by this date will be picked up for payment in the scheduled payment run on Thursday 27 November.

The next payment run after this will be in the new system and is scheduled to run on Thursday 4 December (usual day) which will pick up all due Invoices at that time, producing cheques dated Friday 5 December, and BACS payments will hit supplier bank accounts on Tuesday 9 December.Raising of iProcurement OrdersOur apologies for the inconvenience and our thanks for your co-operation and assistance during the upgrade.