Inside Teachers College’s E-Procurement Transformation
Founded in 1887, Teachers College (TC) is one of the oldest schools of education in the world and the largest in the US.
While the College is affiliated and works closely with Columbia University, it has its own president and trustees, as well as an independent procurement department overseen by Driton Tony Shala.
Tony has spent two-and-a-half decades in procurement, working initially as Head of Administration and Procurement at OSCE, the largest security organisation in Europe.
From there, he took up a similar role with BNP Paribas, one of the region’s biggest banks.
But having spent 18 years in corporate procurement, Tony decided it was time to truly test himself and head in a different direction. In 2015, he became Procurement Manager at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University in New York City, the first and largest graduate school of education in the US.
When Tony first arrived, all procurement activities were carried out manually. In the ensuing years his primary focus has been the transition from manual to electronic, while building out the capacity of the institution when it comes to procurement procedures.
“That’s one of my strengths: to help institutions build their e-procurement platforms and start using them,” he says.
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