Sourcing
Simplify and streamline sourcing events—from creating RFXs to evaluating bids and awarding contracts—so you can make smarter, faster decisions.
Ellucian Banner and Unimarket
Our seamless integration with Ellucian Banner ensures an optimal procurement process.
Process improvements and cost savings are key to success. But achieving these goals can be impossible if your procurement software isn't aligned with your Ellucian Banner ERP.
Purpose-built eProcurement tools have emerged as the gold standard for managing and transforming procurement. But your chosen solution must be a great fit for the financial heart of your institution — its ERP.
That’s why so many colleges and universities using Ellucian Banner look to Unimarket’s best-in-class procure-to-pay solution when they need to power up their procurement process.
Unimarket has been an Ellucian partner for over a decade and more than 75% of our clients use an Ellucian ERP. We’ve built the experience our higher education clients trust and the solution functionality their institutions need.
From an intuitive marketplace to automated approvals and invoicing, Unimarket complements Banner perfectly. The combination simplifies purchasing, provides total control and visibility, and ensures your ERP remains the system of record.
Unimarket offers unparalleled value by forming a single end-to-end procurement solution with your ERP with minimal complexity, cost, and demand on resources.
We understand Banner
Our customers who use Ellucian Banner share why they choose Unimarket.
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Integration with Banner made easy
Software integrations can be highly complex and time-consuming projects. As a result, college and university IT departments with limited resources are reluctant to consider the introduction of new technology.
That’s why we developed Banner EasyConnect — a simple and cost-effective way to integrate the Unimarket eProcurement solution with your Ellucian Banner ERP.
Banner EasyConnect allows for a no-fuss integration that ensures a flexible, reliable, and seamless relationship with your ERP, enabling procurement, finance, and accounts payable teams to work more efficiently and effectively across the entire procurement process.
Delivered by our expert implementation team, there’s no need for a detailed system assessment and there's minimal burden on your IT resources.
We also support enterprise-level authentication through single sign-on and we can easily integrate with other solutions within your wider IT ecosystem for total harmony.
Once integrated, the Unimarket solution can be configured to your organization’s specific needs, from tailored approval workflows to the custom management of invoice exceptions.
Plus, because Unimarket is a cloud-based solution, all product updates and patches happen automatically and without disruption.
We work with Workato
We’ve partnered with world-leading integration platform Workato to simplify integrations and ensure customers realize the benefits of a simplified procurement process faster than ever.
The Unimarket difference
Ease
- Give your people a familiar marketplace shopping experience.
- Automate everything, from requisition generation to approvals.
- Save time and resources with a cloud-based solution that updates automatically and needs no installation.
Visibility and control
- Know how much your users are spending, what they’re buying, and from which suppliers.
- Ensure purchases are authorized before spend is committed with upfront requisition approval.
- Forecast with reliable data on historical and committed spend.
Savings
- Create buying power by directing spend to preferred suppliers.
- Save time and money by cutting out paperwork and automating processes.
- Onboard suppliers without the need for time-consuming, point-to-point integrations.
Explore our comprehensive suite of source-to-pay solutions.
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Resources for procurement professionals
Access eGuides, webinars and articles to help you optimize procurement in your organization.
eGuide
How to make the case for eProcurement
A step-by-step, practical guide to creating a compelling and data-driven business case for an eProcurement solution.
Webinar
Navigating the eProcurement process
Learn about the 7 questions to ask eProcurement solution providers to ensure you select the right platform for your organization.
Article
Understanding maverick spend
Explore some common problematic buying behaviors and how they impact your organization and uncover the challenges of decentralized procurement.
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