Connected Commerce for Education
With strict guidelines for budget and purchasing compliance, educational institutions are faced with pressure to find suppliers who can meet their procurement requirements.
Organizations who implement technologies that make it faster and easier for educational institutions to purchase – all while being in compliance – will earn the opportunity to win new business and gain more wallet share from existing customers.
TradeCentric for Education
Integration is key for convenient and compliant purchasing, but not all organizations within the education industry have the technical expertise or resources to build connections with their trading partners. Leading organizations are partnering with dedicated software providers to enhance their technical capabilities, eliminate backlogs, scale operations, and empower their teams to accomplish more, faster.
B2B Connected Commerce in Education
For university bookstores, technology stores, and print shops, efficient procurement is essential. TradeCentric’s tailored B2B Connected Commerce solutions enable seamless procure-to-pay automation, enhancing bookstore efficiency.
A large university in Virginia leverages eProcurement to streamline purchasing for faculty, enhancing spend oversight and standardizing procurement procedures across campus.
Educational institutions leverage TradeCentric’s eQuote solution to better manage significant daily purchases and optimize supplier deals. This streamlines custom and off-catalog orders to minimize administrative workload, enhance accuracy, and save time.
Coupled with TradeCentric’s Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) solution, buyers gain valuable order insights like order number, date, tracking number, shipment method, shipping address, and included items, further enhancing procurement efficiency.
School Health Doubles Revenue via Seamless Migration to New eCommerce Platform
School Health wanted to improve its eCommerce experience by providing procurement integration capabilities to their customers. The company also sought to increase revenue from existing customers through its eCommerce platform and to attract new business with this newly integrated procurement ability. TradeCentric helped achieve all these goals, ultimately increasing revenue by more than 110%.
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“Over time, an increasing number of customers were asking for eCommerce automation features like PunchOut catalogs. We saw integration and automation as an opportunity to build stronger relationships with our customers and attract new customers.”
eCommerce Manager
School Health
Education Connected Commerce Integration FAQs
Everything you need to know about our products and packages.
Use a partner to establish an integration layer that normalizes cXML, OCI, EDI, and API formats into a single reusable pattern. The TradeCentric Platform handles mapping, transformation, testing, and monitoring so you enable new districts quickly without rewriting connectors. Centralized alerting and change control keep integrations stable as buyer systems evolve.
Ensure third-party integration providers encrypt data in transit and at rest, in addition to compliance with enterprise-grade security requirements including ISO27001, SOC 2 , PCI, and more. The TradeCentric Platform supports enterprise security controls and vendor risk reviews, helping suppliers meet district and university requirements. Standardized data handling reduces exposure while preserving full transaction traceability.
PunchOut integrations places your contract catalog and pricing directly inside district and university procurement systems, removing friction and enforcing compliance. This makes your products the default purchase path, improving conversion and renewal odds.
Automated POs apply line-level validation to catch unit-of-measure, ship-to, contract, and price mismatches before orders reach your system. That prevents costly rework and returns while giving stakeholders a clean audit trail.
Procurement teams can restrict purchasing to approved items and prices, and route requisitions through budget and policy approvals. Integrating POs and invoices enables three-way match and a complete audit trail across campuses and departments.
Finance leaders can expect savings to come from fewer manual touches, fewer errors and disputes, and faster approvals that reduce DSO. A simple model: minutes saved per order and invoice × labor rate × automated volume, plus improved first-pass acceptance and higher compliant spend. TradeCentric Invoice Automation and PO Automation deliver buyer-compliant documents that accelerate cash and lower write-offs.