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 

A single marketplace for every stakeholder

Gain control of your institution’s spend

Optimize supplier performance

Manage supplier relationships to drive value

Procurement transformation

Scalable cloud solutions that connect communities

Create, manage, and monitor contracts

Improve compliance with better visibility

Source with agility and insight

Build a sustainable and diverse sourcing strategy

Optimize supplier performance

Manage supplier relationships to drive value

Procurement transformation

Scalable cloud solutions that connect communities

Create, manage, and monitor contracts

Improve compliance with better visibility

Discover how ESM helps institutions connect people to the resources they need to advance education

Higher Education using ESM Solutions

In education we learn from the experience of others. Find out what institutions just like you are doing with ESM.
“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.”



carmen taylor
purchasing manager
Central Community College
“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.”
Stephen Chambers
principal analyst
Pima Community College
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