Case Study: Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana achieves rapid procurement optimization and 95% spend visibility with ESM Solutions

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Customer Case Study

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, the largest public college system in Indiana with more than 200,000 students, faced a mandate to optimize procurement college-wide and boost virtual collaboration. Their previous eProcurement solution was costly and cumbersome, so they selected ESM Solutions’ spend management platform—integrated with Banner by Ellucian—to deliver a user-friendly, ERP-connected procurement system with stable pricing and flexible features.

ESM Solutions deployed the full solution in under six weeks, enabling 2,300 active users (with a single administrator), onboarding 12,000 integrated/converted suppliers and 5,000 supplier workflows, and establishing 14 preferred non‑catalog suppliers. The Banner integration automated purchase orders and budget checking, increased transaction volume and visibility, routed 95% of spend through the platform, and produced measurable gains in on‑contract purchasing, reporting, and procurement efficiency.

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana

Andy Williams

E-Procurement System Administrator