easyPurchase and easySourcing connect classrooms, administrative offices and educational service agencies with their selected suppliers, to ensure the highest degree of efficiency in purchasing and bidding supplies and services. Our products are easy to use, quick to implement and provide a rapid return on investment. This is why over 4,000 educational entities are already using our products – making ESM Solutions the leader in procurement solutions for the education market.
ESM Solutions is the only e-procurement provider with proven, cost effective end-to-end solutions built specifically for schools. We enable School Districts, Buying Cooperatives and Educational Service Agencies to dramatically reduce both cost and time spend on purchasing and sourcing – so that schools can get back to their most important business – educating our youth.
easyPurchase™ Enterprise Manage the procurement process, from catalog search, requisition creation, online approval routing and release of electronic purchase orders to desktop receiving, and all with built-in reporting to easily extract information when needed.
easyPurchase Enterprise features hosted catalogs, punch-outs to supplier websites and catalogs created from awarded bids and quotes. All of these can be integrated with any financial accounting system, to be able to capture all transactional information and communicate with your general ledger, satisfying the most critical aspects of School District financial management.
easyPurchase™ DirectBuy Provide all of your users access to approved supplier content through our intuitive user interface. This ensures that all purchases made are price compliant while discouraging users from purchasing outside of the network.
easyPurchase™ Textbook Get consolidated buying power of your organization through the catalog and purchasing capabilities built into easyPurchase Textbook. With easyPurchase Textbook, buyers can search catalogs, view textbook details, build a cart and submit their order for approval. easyPurchase Textbook also supports State textbook adoption programs, providing quality materials to schools at a guaranteed price.
easyWarehouse™ Get a highly flexible, cost-effective warehouse management solution that integrates seamlessly with easyPurchase. easyWarehouse provides a user-friendly, menu-driven interface, designed to satisfy the requirements of virtually any warehouse operation. In addition to reporting, easyWarehouse supports four primary warehouse management functions:
easyForms™ Get a complete and easy-to-use forms presentation and management solution that gathers all of your business forms in one location where users can access them and administrators can manage them. easyForms also applies consistent business rules to the access, approval and management of the forms and archives them for future access.
easyPay™ Get automated processing of any payment for items such as: hot lunches, donations, after school programs, tuition, taxes, field trips and PTO dues. Parents, students and supporters can securely pay via credit card or electronic check.
easyBid™ Line Item Manage catalog creation, requirements gathering, and supplier publication and award.
easyBid™ Discount Solicit discounts off of supplier catalogs or categories.
easyQuote™ Capture the information required to publish a request from new or existing suppliers when you need evidence of competition.
easyProject™ Send requests for proposal (RFP), requests for information (RFI) or other sourcing vehicles, with electronic attachments, when your organization requires sealed or unsealed formal proposal management.