Case Study: University of Nottingham achieves IT procurement savings with KnowledgeBus

University of Nottingham - Customer Case Study

The University of Nottingham faced a major procurement challenge in its IT category, where daily purchasing of hardware, software, peripherals and consumables was complicated by a fast-moving market with frequent price and stock changes. To improve best value and reduce the time spent manually gathering supplier information, the university turned to KnowledgeBus, an online IT benchmarking tool.

KnowledgeBus provided management reports, forecasting, price and stock benchmarking, and automated alerts against trade guide data from thousands of manufacturers and products. The University of Nottingham said the tool helped recover its cost in one bulk purchase of 300 desktop PCs, could save up to 24% on prices paid and 20% of benchmarking time, and enabled buyers to keep supplier pricing competitive while verifying stock shortages in real time.

University of Nottingham

Jayson Tarr

Category Manager – Information Technology