Aquiire and NAEP Host Webinar Exploring Ways Real-Time eProcurement Drives Compliance and Value for Higher Educational Institutions
Prominent membership organization for higher educational procurement leaders partners with Aquiire to highlight the importance of real-time data within the transformation of purchase operations.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquiire, Inc., a leader in real-time eProcurement and supplier relationship management solutions, is co-hosting a live webinar with the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP) entitled How Real-Time eProcurement Drives Unprecedented Compliance and Value for Higher Educational Institutions on Tuesday, December 5, 2-3pm EST. The free webinar explores how untraditional procurement strategies and real-time data are delivering tremendous value for higher educational institutions.
The webinar is hosted by Sarah Woods, Educational Associate of NAEP, and Tulsi Zeidman, Aquiire Head of Strategic Solutions. They will discuss how real-time capabilities not only guide users towards achieving the most value for their spend budgets, but also help higher-educational procurement organizations streamline regulatory spend compliance and reporting, minimize end-user training on complex regulations, drive social responsibility, and increase stakeholder satisfaction.
Attendees will learn an "inside-out" approach to traditional procurement strategies, supplier engagement and capturing long-tail spend. Additionally, the webinar will explore how real-time data and automated processes are essential to transforming higher-educational purchasing operations to meet today's challenges. Webinar takeaways include:
- Why reshaping the traditional procurement business model realizes exceptional user adoption, purchasing compliance and spend transparency.
- How higher education institutions can automate, proactively manage and document federal grant purchasing activities to drive uniform guidance compliance, streamline reporting tasks in preparation for the Single Audit and ultimately avoid penalties.
- How real-time eProcurement delivers unprecedented operational efficiencies while maximizing the value obtained for each dollar spent.
A more detailed webinar description and registration is available on the Aquiire blog by clicking this hyperlink.
About NAEP
Since the 1920s, NAEP has been the non-profit professional Association primarily dedicated to serving higher education purchasing officers in the U.S. and Canada. NAEP's mission is to facilitate the development, exchange and practice of effective and ethical procurement principles and techniques within higher education and associated communities, through continuing education, networking, public information and advocacy. Members of the Association founded the E&I Cooperative Service as an important benefit of NAEP Membership. Currently, over 1,000 colleges and universities are Members. More information is available at http://www.naepnet.org.
About the Aquiire eProcurement Suite
Aquiire's intelligent real-time Procure-to-Pay suite brings the convenience and simplicity of the consumer shopping experience to the business user with unparalleled compliance and savings. Aquiire features patented, real-time B2B e-commerce shopping from a single search, advanced machine learning to improve search relevance and spend visibility, and cutting-edge supplier relationship management technologies to automate buyer/seller collaborations. Aquiire's best-in-class, intuitive user interface and real-time lower-price comparisons from alternative suppliers deliver previously untapped savings on indirect spend. The patented, real-time processing of structured and unstructured data also powers advanced capabilities like instant alerts, risk analysis, analytics and price/product compliance enforcement.
About Aquiire, Inc.
We are more than procurement thought leaders and disrupters. We are technology entrepreneurs, innovators, and collaborators. Aquiire's eProcurement SaaS platform was developed through real-world collaboration with procurement leaders from some of the largest global enterprises and public institutions. We believe procurement should move in real time, just like your business. More information is available at www.Aquiire.com. Twitter: @Aquiire.
Aquiire Downloads and Resources:
- Aquiire digital brochure
- Video: Aquiire Explainer Video
- White paper: Reshaping the Traditional eProcurement To Achieve Extraordinary Savings on Indirect Spend
- White paper: Top Ten Ways Real-Time eProcurement Matters
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