Data Sheet: Ellucian Experience Cards for Procurement

But so are supplier and purchasing decisions that align with institutional values, promote brand safety, and provide the transparency needed for policy compliance.

As education institutions adopt new technologies to manage costs, drive efficiencies, and support their mission, technology environments grow increasingly complex. That’s why institutions must shift their focus from transaction-based purchasing to trusted, personalized experiences that make it easy for everyone to browse, shop, and buy.

Ellucian Experience Cards for procurement transform how educational institutions manage their non-payroll spend and purchases.

With realtime, actionable insights and pre built experiences, institutions can promote trusted suppliers, knowing they are both brand safe and brand secure. Through SaaS-enabled and certified integration, with Ellucian Banner and Colleague ERPs, institutions can access holistic views of budgets and spend to promote purchasing integrity and safeguard against risk.

There’s a growing expectation for institutional purchasing processes that are consumer oriented, mirroring the intuitive, seamless experiences employees are accustomed to.

Buyers increasingly seek interfaces that are not only functional but also user-friendly, with simple, streamlined buying pathways.

Ellucian Experience provides pre-built cards for procurement that are flexible, making it easy for institutions to tailor purchasing process. Mobile-ready, Ellucian Experience cards for procurement are built for the way people work.

A QuickBuy capability learns buying behavior, enabling the purchase and repurchase of common items, eliminating endless searching.

Streamline the purchasing experience by making it easy for employees to browse, shop, and buy. Ellucian Experience enables customizable cards and views, providing users with the ability to add, remove, and highlight what matters the most, such as classroom materials or scientific supplies.

Exchanging data across solutions reliably and efficiently can be a significant challenge for institutions. Without a simple way to reconcile data stored in their finance system with purchasing data, an institution’s ability to understand, manage, and trust information about budgets and spend can be compromised.

Ellucian Ethos integration connects procurement with Banner Finance and Colleague Finance, giving institutions greater control and better insights into their budgets and spend.

Because purchasing data is synchronized with finance, institutions can surface consistent, reliable, and meaningful information from multiple sources in real-time, giving buyers visibility into their budgets so they can commit spending with confidence.

With scalable governance built-in, institutions can easily monitor and maintain identity and access management across all of the Ellucian Spend Management app .

Using the Ellucian Ethos platform, Ellucian procurement offers pre-built, certified integration with Banner and Colleague to power consistent and reliable data exchange. This out-of-the-box integration not only speeds up the implementation of Ellucian Purchase and Ellucian Supplier, but also simplifies ongoing maintenance.

Decision-makers gain immediate access to insights through real-time, synchronized data integration. Finance leaders can improve control and visibility of budget and spend activity to consolidate purchases, reduce costs, and minimize errors.

Replacing outdated systems and retooling manual, paper-based processes drives
efficiency and transforms purchasing operation.

As institutions adopt new solutions, their technology environments grow increasingly complex, introducing concerns about sustainability and scalability into the future.

Ellucian’s Experience Cards for procurement deliver the advanced technology, tools, and services that institutions need to transform and personalize the path to buy.

With advanced cloud services, AI, and automation underpinning Ellucian’s Spend Management apps, institutions can rest assured that their investment in best-in-class, SaaS-enabled capabilities will not only serve them today, but will scale with them for years to come.