Ensuring efficient operation

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SFIVET/Salome Oechslin

In 2019, the Services Division once again focussed primarily on streamlining and standardising SFIVET processes. Examples of optimisation in SFIVET’s core divisions included the introduction of an electronic accounts payable workflow, the development of a new concept to manage SFIVET finances, the implementation of various digitalisation projects at all three of SFIVET’s campuses as well as successful introduction of a new project management application and corresponding training courses for SFIVET staff.

The Services Division also revised SFIVET’s procurement processes. It established a uniform procedure for the procurement of goods and services to facilitate the correct application of public procurement legislation. Each SFIVET division now has a trained procurement coordinator who handles all purchases over CHF 50,000.

Finally, Services Division staff lent support to the Swiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO), which conducted an audit of SFIVET activities in 2019. The SFAO analysed the cost-effectiveness of SFIVET’s training courses for vocational school teachers by comparing the cost of these courses with the costs of similar courses at three universities of teacher education in the German-speaking region of Switzerland. In its report, however, the SFAO noted that the costs stated by the various universities of teacher education were not consistently comparable.