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 collaboration to support member universities to meet the challenge of human rights transparency and risk management in their supply chains and contribute to the fulfillment of Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) reporting requirements. By working together, we hope to minimise the duplication of activities and associated costs across individual universities, including risk assessment, implementation of systems and remediation. We also hope that leveraging our aggregated buying power will improve our capacity to identify and action any modern slavery risks, and drive more effective changes through our supply chains. A summary of the AUPN Modern Slavery Program and 2021 deliverables can be downloaded below.