The district selects ESM’s comprehensive purchasing platform to simplify workflows, improve transparency, and deliver an improved procurement experience for educators and staff.

Located in the hills of north-central West Virginia, Taylor County blends history, natural beauty, and strong community values to create an ideal environment for education. Its small towns, rich heritage, and welcoming residents foster academic excellence and student success. And as it strives towards improving educational excellence, Taylor County Schools has taken a significant step forward in transforming experience for users of its procurement services, selecting ESM’s Purchase, Contract, Supplier and Source capabilities, integrating purchasing directly  with WVEIS. This initiative is part of the district’s commitment to improvement, transparency, and to ensuring educators have seamless access to the resources they need to support student success. 

Advancing procurement for a stronger educational community

By taking a unified approach to transforming procurement for the benefit of all the schools in the community, Taylor County Board of Education joins more than 130 schools across six other districts in the state of West Virginia, including Berkeley County BOE, Mercer County BOE and Fayette County BOE, that have adopted ESM Solutions integrated with WVEIS integration to enhance and extend procurement operations and connect directly with the suppliers that matter to the schools. 

Taylor recognized the benefits being provided by ESM in other districts including: 

  • Seamless WVEIS integration ensures a unified and efficient procurement system that aligns with existing financial processes 
  • Key suppliers connected for day-to-day spend categories that help Taylor’s users easily purchase the goods and services they need to advance education 
  • Enhanced efficiency and transparency help Taylor County Schools to eliminate manual and extra steps, and to maintain compliance 
  • Future-ready solutions mean Taylor is ready with the flexibility adapt to change and to establish a sustainable approach to the suppliers that bring the best value and service to schools  

Strengthening community collaboration and impact 

Taylor County Schools joins a community of seven districts and more than 130 schools, enabling valuable sharing of insights and best practices and the opportunity to uncover new ways of working with shared and common suppliers to enhance services, in often rural areas and to enjoy the benefit that higher volumes of goods and services bring to logistics and pricing.  

ESM’s Supplier Relationship Manager, Natasha Brandenburg shares “we are seeing suppliers already responding favourably to the increase in digital (supply-chain) enablement”. Natasha continues “reducing the diversity of sales channels that a supplier needs to support at the schools, and focusing on a single secure, integrated, and direct digital connection, results in service levels improving. Suppliers can create new and tailored offerings for West Virginia, and improve value-for-money, creating a win for everyone.”        

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