Case Study: Brown University achieves 20%+ sourcing savings with Vendorful

How Brown University Realized 100% Roi in Only an Hour

Brown University turned to Vendorful to modernize its strategic sourcing process. The university’s team had been managing RFPs and other sourcing events with Word, Excel, and email, which created manual busy work, slow cycle times, and limited collaboration across campus stakeholders. Brown initially adopted Vendorful to make RFP handling more efficient, and later expanded usage as its sourcing needs grew.

With Vendorful’s eSourcing platform, Brown was able to run self-service RFPs and reverse auctions with point-and-click simplicity, stakeholder collaboration, and data normalization. Reverse auctions were set up in less than 30 minutes and ran in 30–60 minutes, delivering savings of 20%+ on purchased products; in fact, the savings from each event more than covered the cost of Brown University’s Vendorful subscription, producing over 100% ROI.

Brown University

Cindy Chadderton

Strategic Sourcing Category Manager