This cancer has been finding its way into academic purchasing offices. Researchers could use procurement cards to buy what they needed with their grant money, n

This cancer has been finding its way into academic purchasing offices. Researchers could use procurement cards to buy what they needed with their grant money, now administrators are chipping away at this to force people to use shopping portals that directly enable this. It almost never saves money, and the extra time and delays associated with it probably cost money overall, yet its of critical importance to purchasing admins that everyone use this nonsense so they can get their kickbacks.