In 2021, despite having an end-to-end PunchOut system in place, the City of Sioux Falls’s procurement department was still processing thousands of purchase orders annually. Frustrated with the inefficiency of their system, procurement officers set out to find a best-of-breed eProcurement […]
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McKinsey Recommends SLED Digitize Procurement, Payables to Optimize Public Sector Savings
Every year the state, local and education (SLED) procurement market spends a staggering $1.5 trillion dollars annually on goods and services. In 2018, after analyzing more than 700 procurement efforts, management consulting firm McKinsey & Company concluded that at 28 […]
Read moreeProcurement Platform Automates Cooperative Purchasing
The Interlocal Purchasing System, better known as TIPS Purchasing Cooperative (TIPS), selected EqualLevel to help automate and streamline purchasing for its members. The TIPS eProcurement system allows TIPS members to easily access the cooperative’s approved suppliers within a single, intuitive marketplace […]
Read moreHow Cooperative Marketplaces Optimize Savings for Agencies
Recently, leading cooperatives have recognized the need to create one-stop-shop transactional marketplaces for their members. Cooperative purchasing organizations like Sourcewell, E&I, MHEC, AEPA, and TIPS have announced or implemented cooperative marketplaces to help their members reduce price discovery, order processing […]
Read moreNational Procurement Institute Honors EqualLevel Customers
EqualLevel is pleased to announce that five of its customers have been honored with the prestigious 2022 National Procurement Institute Achievement of Excellence in Procurement Award. About the NPI The National Procurement Institute (NPI) is a non-profit organization that serves […]
Read moreEqualLevel Launches MyFunds for K-12 Supplemental Funds Management
As school districts began to see the importance of allocating funds for teachers for classroom supplies, EqualLevel saw the need for districts to have a tool for supplemental funds management. EqualLevel’s MyFunds solution for automates funds distribution, encourages on-contract purchasing, tracks spending, […]
Read moreCooperative Purchasing Organization Launches eMarketplace to Simplify Procurement for Members
Cooperative Purchasing Organization MHEC, New England’s Premier Purchasing Consortium, has launched their new eMarketplace, the i-buy marketplaceâ„¢. The i-buy marketplaceâ„¢ simplifies purchasing for MHEC members by enabling them to buy from multiple contracts utilizing the same shopping cart and interface. […]
Read moreSchool Districts Realize $600K in Procurement Savings with AI
Maverick spending is costing schools significantly each year. EqualLevel developed the EqualLevel Savings Advisorâ„¢ (ELSA) to thwart this overspending. ELSA combines the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically identify in real-time the lowest price for an item, or the […]
Read moreeProcurement Solutions Provide Real-Time Information
The role of procurement in education is evolving, and the pandemic provided a glimpse into one of the key drivers of this evolution–the importance of a procurement solution that provides real-time information. For much-needed supplies, such as personal protective equipment, […]
Read moreAgencies Move Away from Full Suites in Favor of Best-of-breed Solutions
In the past, public sector organizations utilized a single unified software solution, also known as a full suite solutions, for their operations data. Despite the efficiency and uniformity of these systems, full-suite solutions have shortcomings. Today, organizations are moving away […]
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