UCT vendors

Non-preferred vendors

Buying from non-preferred vendors results in significant extra costs to the university in subsequent administrative processes. A minor saving for the department can be a significant extra cost to the university. The use of one-time vendors poses special risks and costs to the university.

To create a vendor on SAP

Where there is no preferred vendor for the items you need to procure and you plan to regularly use a vendor, you can request that the vendor be created on SAP:

1. Download and fill in form MM002 - Request for new vendor.
2. Send it to Master Data Section, Procurement & Payment Services, Room 1.13, 2nd Rhodes Avenue, Mowbray. If deemed valid, PPS will ask the vendor to fill in a vendor application form.

Vendors are judged according to the following criteria for possible inclusion to the database:

• financial stability
• VAT status
• BEE status
• payment terms and method
• conditions of sale
• resource and operational capacity
• trade references

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