Higher Education
Procure the resources your institution needs to thrive
Higher Education
Procure the resources your institution needs to thrive
In higher education, purchasing is more than just a series of transactions and approvals. While controlling cost remains a priority, aligning suppliers and purchasing with institutional values, promoting brand safety, providing transparency and policy compliance are emerging as equally important.
To keep pace, colleges and universities must transform procurement away from transaction-based processes to trusted, integrated and personalized experiences that connect everyone with the resources they need to power education.
Spend
Management
Employ intelligent insights to influence buyer behavior
Curate trusted suppliers
Keep your brand
safe and secure
Reduce operational complexity
Eliminate friction points in the procurement process
Align with institutional values
Boost sustainable procurement practices
Increase visibility and compliance
View budgets and spend holistically
Secure
your data
Safeguard and protect
against risk
Integrate
systems
Synchronize the touchpoints that matter
Simplify the user experience
Make it easy and intuitive to browse, shop, and buy
“[With ESM], your workflows are more efficient.
Then you can focus more on the larger, strategic goals of the college.”
Julie Fisher, Controller, McDaniel College
Discover how ESM helps institutions connect people to the resources they need to advance education
Higher Education using ESM
In education we learn from the experience of others. Find out what institutions just like you are doing with ESM Solutions.
“ESM workflows guide users in every step from purchase to approval and receipt. Searching our integrated supplier catalogs, items are quick and simple to find, and can be purchased with ease. It’s that instant.”
“Ellucian Purchase is integrated tightly with our Banner Finance system using Ethos. This has helped us eliminate a lot of extra effort associated with dual maintenance of data, such as units of measure, locations, commodity codes, and tax codes. As a result, we have reduced errors and risks.”
