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Charles Sturt University Launches Full Procure-to-Pay Suite with Unimarket
Australian School Rolls Out Unimarket Solution Across Its 15 Campuses and Locations
Auckland, New Zealand – 22 May 2017 – Charles Sturt University (CSU) officially launched a full suite of procure-to-pay
solutions through Unimarket this month, implementing tools to help streamline and automate the university’s spend
management and procurement processes.
With 15 campuses and locations throughout New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory,
award-winning Charles Sturt University is Australia’s largest regional university and has more than 40,000 students. CSU
selected Unimarket through a competitive bid process, ultimately choosing Unimarket for its comprehensive capabilities,
ease of use, and ability to integrate with the university’s existing finance system.
CSU currently utilises the Banner enterprise resource planning system (ERP) for finance management, but needed a
solution for their procure-to-pay processes, from sourcing to contract management to procurement workflow and invoicing
automation. Unimarket not only provided a full-suite solution, but also seamlessly connected with CSU’s existing ERP
using its proprietary middleware and unique community-sourced integration.
“Charles Sturt University has had eProcurement as a strategic objective for some time,” said Adrian Whiting, Director,
Strategic Procurement at CSU. “The University performed extensive due diligence in reviewing the various solutions and
providers available in the market, and ultimately unanimously selected Unimarket for its easy-to-use, unified platform
of procurement tools. In our time working with the system, we have been very pleased with the capabilities of
Unimarket’s technology, flexibility of the integration with our Banner finance system, and excellent customer service.
We look forward to realizing the full benefits and value of the Unimarket procure-to-pay eProcurement solution.”
“We’re delighted to go live with our eMarketplace and eProcurement solution across all Charles Sturt campuses
simultaneously to manage 100% of the University’s spend,” said Peter Kane, CEO of Unimarket. “We were able to utilise
our extensive experience with our Banner customers in the United States to integrate with CSU’s ERP. The implementation
has been a great team effort with Charles Sturt, which reflects our commitment to serving as a true partner to our
customers, and we look forward to demonstrating the value that a fully integrated suite of procurement solutions on a
single, easy-to-use platform can provide.”
Unimarket has been providing its cloud-based, unified suite of spend management solutions to Higher Education customers
since 2007, first in New Zealand and then throughout the U.S. and Australia. Starting with Griffith University in 2012,
Unimarket has been working with Australian Higher Education institutions to improve their procurement processes,
delivering greater value to universities and their suppliers. The Unimarket solution extends beyond Higher Education as
well, with customers in Australasia in the government, health, and financial services sectors. Charles Sturt University
and Unimarket will showcase the solution in a case study at the HES Finance and Procurement Conference on the Gold Coast
in August. To register, go to: http://www.hes.edu.au/events/finance-and-procurement-conference/. To learn more about Unimarket’s unified suite of procurement tools, visit http://bit.ly/2gc014o.
About Unimarket
Unimarket’s cloud-based source-to-settle system brings spend management into one place in a simple, easy-to-use
solution. With 12 years in eProcurement and a multitude of Higher Education customers across the globe, we understand
what institutions need and how to best get them to their goals. Unimarket was built on a single unified platform, and
employs efficient, user-friendly technology to bring together buyers with suppliers, streamline processes, and deliver
real value. But Unimarket is more than just its innovative procurement technology: we aim to provide software that our
users love to work with, and to be the company that our customers love to do business with. Find out how Unimarket can
make your procurement process easier at www.unimarket.co.nz.