Finding a Supplier

To find a supplier for your needs, your first step should be to review the Strategic Supplier page. A Strategic Suppliers worklet is also available in Workday. 

SPCI can help you identify a supplier for your purchasing needs.  Contact the office at [email protected] if you need assistance. The University encourages the use of Local and Diversity Suppliers. 

To search for suppliers that are registered as small, minority-owned, women-owned, disadvantaged, veteran owned and local business enterprises, use the links provided through the University’s Supplier Diversity at Brown page.

Brown also encourages departments to consider the use of products and services that impact the environment less than competing products.  SPCI has an Environmental Awareness policy that provides additional information on this important topic:

Workday also contains a reporting feature to search for suppliers already in Workday by the category of services/products they provide.  To access the report, someone with the role of Financial Coordinator can run the “Find Supplier” report in Workday and select a category from the dropdown menu to see suppliers that are already active in the Workday financial system. Local and Diversity Suppliers can be identified using this report feature.