Australasian Universities Procurement Network (AUPN)

The Australasian Universities Procurement Network

The Australian Universities Procurement Network (AUPN) represent the Australasian and New Zealand higher education sector, who work together to improve excellence in procurement practice and in the skills of procurement professionals. The benefits of AUPN membership include:

Procurement benchmarking across the sector:
- Participation in the AUPN Excellence Program guiding members towards best practice
- Team capability development via the pQ Assessment and eLearning modules benchmarked against 20,000 global procurement professionals
- Access to standardised category taxonomy structure utilised for ERP/finance platforms
Opportunity to join the 2020 CIPS Awarded University Procurement Hub, delivering core procurement services by aggregating purchasing power across the participating universities
Peer collaboration:
- Established Working Groups and Best Practice Roundtables such as Modern Slavery, Travel and Facilities Management
- Networking and State-based collaboration groups
- Access to Sector Procurement Spend Data
Access to the online Community Portal:
- Procurement best practice toolkits, resources and templates
- Discussion boards and chat forums such as sharing economies, digital print, legal services, procurement consulting and expenses management systems
- Knowledge library, news reels and events calendar
Participation in the sector response to modern slavery legislation and involvement in the AUPN Modern Slavery Program
Monthly online workshops

AUPN Modern Slavery Program
The AUPN is leading a sector-wide collaboration to help member universities enhance human rights transparency and manage modern slavery risks in their supply chains and operations. This initiative supports compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) while reducing duplication of efforts and associated costs across universities.

By collectively leveraging our resources to assess risks, share best practice, and develop standardised systems for risk management and remediation, participating universities optimise transparency and accountability, strengthening our overall human rights commitment and impact.

Download a copy of the annual University Anti-Slavery Program achievements below.