Ellucian Supplier Management

Optimize your sourcing strategy to ensure expedited delivery of goods and services.

Source With Agility and Efficiency

Create and launch sourcing events more efficiently with flexible tools and templates.

Improve Collaboration and Engagement

Create active relationships with evaluators and suppliers to deliver greater sourcing outcomes.

Create a Unified Infrastructure

Capture, monitor, and manage supply chain data for consistent control and accurate insight.

Reduce Costs and Mitigate Risk

Measure vendor performance spend against procurement purchases and reduce errors.

Ready to get strategic about sourcing?

At a time when every transaction needs to be strategically sourced, Ellucian is partnering with higher ed institutions to create a unified and collaborative supplier community. Ellucian Supplier Management provides the capabilities you need to launch and manage sourcing events, collaborate with suppliers, and deliver services to every stakeholder.

Onboard Suppliers With Ease

Invite suppliers to register online and submit their information for review and approval. Manage supplier approvals by automatically routing information to the appropriate parties.

Accelerate Supplier Engagement

Collaborate with suppliers all through a convenient portal enabling you to manage responses, view the status of events, and receive alerts and notifications.

Mitigate Risk and Fraud

Ensure the accuracy and reliability of your supplier data to reduce the risk of fraud and streamline payment transactions and procurement processes.

Source With Intelligence

Launch, publish, and evaluate complex events from a single platform. Establish evaluation and approval workflows to help your teams make pinpoint decisions. Award bids to a single supplier, multiple suppliers, or by line item.

Structure Bids for Greater Impact

Structure events that align with your specific sourcing strategy. Issue sealed or unsealed bids, assign weights and scores to sections, include line item bidding, and publish the terms and conditions your institution requires.

Simplify Evaluations

Gather and review requirements using assigned roles and committees, notifications, and communication workflows.

Features include

Align your sourcing strategies with your institutional mission

Onboard suppliers quickly and conveniently
Invite suppliers to register online and submit their information for review and approval. Manage supplier approvals by automatically routing information to the appropriate parties.

Accelerate supplier engagement
Collaborate more effectively with suppliers who can manage responses directly from your event, view the status of their response, and receive alerts and notifications—all through a convenient supplier portal.

Build a more diverse supplier community
And with better tools to manage supplier diversity, you will be more able to reach and exceed regulatory and institutional goals.

Mitigate risk and fraud
Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of your supplier data to reduce the risk of fraud and ensure more efficient processing of procurement and payment transactions.

Source more intelligently
Launch, publish, and evaluate even the most complex events from a single platform. Establish evaluation and approval workflows to help your teams make better decisions faster. Award bids more strategically to a single supplier, multiple suppliers, or by line item.

Structure bids for greater impact
Structure events that align with your specific sourcing strategy. Issue sealed or unsealed bids, assign weights and scores to sections, include line item bidding, and publish the terms and conditions your institution requires.

Simplify evaluations
Gather and review requirements more efficiently using assigned roles and committees, notifications, and communications workflows.

Drive more value
With new efficiencies and better collaboration across campuses and systems, you can work more effectively to manage costs and discover new opportunities for innovation and collaboration.

With Ellucian Supplier Management, bids and solicitations can be handled seamlessly online. When the college closed for the pandemic, we were able to continue processing those solicitations.

Roxanne Venegas, Purchasing Manager | Joliet Junior College

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