eProcurement delivers many benefits for educational institutions looking to source more effectively and efficiently. E&I offers members a range of eProcurement options, from our no-cost online marketplace (coming soon) to platforms with varying functionality and integration capabilities.
Custom-built for education, these offerings are robust and scalable – perfect for an institution’s first entry into eProcurement and able to grow into an enterprise system supporting multi-campus purchasing requirements. But an eProcurement platform is only as good as the strategy around it.
E&I can help you drive your eProcurement strategy, including enhancing your punchout strategy and enabling more contracts.
Contract Enablement
Another way to control more spend is to enable specific contracts on your existing eProcurement platform. The more E&I contracts you have enabled, the more cost savings you can realize.
If you’re currently benefitting from using E&I contracts, but they aren’t enabled on your platform, you are very likely leaving money on the table. And if you have some of our contracts enabled, why not more? E&I has contracts with leading suppliers — let us help you get more of them enabled so you can drive increased cost savings.
E&I’s no-cost online marketplace is custom-built for smaller institutions and enables schools and universities to drive end-users to a centralized shopping experience where E&I’s portfolio of contracts are available in a secure purchasing environment.
We are currently conducting a limited Pilot Program with select members. Please stay tuned for additional information. For questions, or to learn more, please contact Cathy Boyd, E&I’s eProcurement Executive Advisor.
Serving as a private marketplace for business and procurement leaders and their users, EqualLevel, Sponsored by E&I connects schools and universities with our portfolio of supplier contracts in a pre-loaded, secure environment. You can also enable any number of your own supplier catalogs for even more flexibility.
An Easy-to-Use, Fully Digital Supplier Network
EqualLevel’s eProcurement platform allows organizations to quickly deploy a cloud-based, multi-vendor procure-to-pay marketplace that ensures compliance and can be accessed by anyone, from anywhere, at any time. Developed to maximize transparency, efficiency, and spend control, the platform enables institutions to provide universal access into a pre-approved, fully digital, supplier network.
Maximize Cost Savings and Efficiency
With EqualLevel, Sponsored by E&I, your users can shop easily and intuitively as they would on any ecommerce site. The savings and purchasing process are optimized by the EqualLevel Savings Advisor, a powerful and proprietary comparison tool built on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Approvals and workflows are easily configured, a full order history is always available and ready to export for review or audit purposes, and all documents from receive, to order, to pay, are available in one central location.
By digitizing the procurement process on this powerful, cloud-based platform, the shopping experience for your institution becomes fast, easy, and intuitive, leading to maximized cost savings and optimal operational efficiency.
