Case Study: Bloomfield College achieves stronger spend control and rapid user adoption with ESM Solutions' ESM Purchase

Bloomfield College migrates from Mercury Commerce to ESM’s eProcurement solution

Bloomfield College faced uncontrolled, hard‑to‑track purchasing across campus and needed to reduce off‑contract spending, consolidate vendor spend, and gain line‑item visibility. The college migrated from Mercury Commerce to ESM Purchase — a cloud eProcurement platform offered by ESM Solutions — after initially worrying about user adoption, since buyers had only recently become accustomed to the earlier system.

ESM Solutions implemented a free upgrade to ESM Purchase, bringing an ecommerce‑style interface, comprehensive order summaries, automatic PO transmission, Amazon integration, and cart‑transfer capabilities. The result was a seamless switch with little training required, faster order processing (replacing fax workflows), proactive order oversight, and a measurable “pattern change” in spend management as buyers are now required to use the portal — improving compliance, consolidating spend to contracted vendors, and increasing visibility.

Bloomfield College

Barbara Mormando

Director of Purchasing