UVU’s objective was to improve and simplify the online ordering experience of its students, faculty and employees to better leverage the investment they’ve made in e-procurement and align it more with how e-commerce sites like Amazon operate. To do this, they wanted to create a virtual marketplace of key suppliers, fully integrated with their e-procurement platform. Their current practice of managing supplier catalogs and order forms created a usability and maintenance nightmare.

By using the Vurbis PunchOut service to punchout-enable both internal and external suppliers, UVU users could now shop internal and external supplier web stores without leaving the e-procurement system, and most importantly ensure contract pricing was applied to all purchases.

Tia Breck, e-procurement administrator at UVU, explains: