True" good afternoon and welcome to the e-procurement for requesters webinar for DV HDD. My name is Darkness Cottenham, a procurement training specialist here at DOAs and the State Purchasing Division. My contact information is on the screen, and my email address is Dornan.Scott@dysg.govt. My phone number is 404-463-4044. What we're going to do today is go over some eprocurement benefits or basics, as well as how to create a requisition and how to manage a requisition. The webinar should last for about two hours. We will have a question and answer session at the end of the webinar, and you can ask your questions by typing them in the questions field on your screen. I will read your questions out loud and answer them verbally. So let's get started. After this course, you will be able to create a requisition, create favorites, create templates, preview the requisition approval, and manage requisitions. Let's first talk about some eprocurement basics and the benefits that you get from the system. First, eprocurement automates the requisition initiation process. It reduces the distribution of hardcopy requisitions and provides an easy system for tracking requisitions. Once you create a requisition, you're able to go back into the system to find it. A major benefit for the state is that it enables easy analysis of spend data. For example, you can easily see what goods or services are being requested and bought. It also reduces the cycle time for approving requisitions and the potential for lost requisitions. Once you've created a requisition, it increases the visibility of where that requisition is in the process. It also easily links the requisition to a purchase contract. Now let's do an overview of eprocurement and the roles in Team Georgia Marketplace. The first role, which many of you will have,...