Procurement and spend management

Do more than just reduce costs. Empower your procurement and accounts payable functions to be strategic partners, improving service and reducing risk for your institution. Huron helps you transform your procurement and accounts payable operations across all related functions. Our spend management experts work side by side with you to understand your institution’s vision and goals and assess your current state operations. We also help leaders develop a clearly defined and actionable plan to evolve to an aligned, improved future state.

Travel is often an unmanaged area of spend and an inefficient function for both the traveler and central operations. By establishing or improving your managed travel program, you can drive savings and efficiencies and improve compliance and the traveler experience. With a technology-enabled travel management program, you have greater visibility into travelers’ locations, enabling quicker support during times of need. We help you with overall program improvement and the implementation and optimization of travel and expense technology solutions.

Education leaders must identify savings opportunities in order to reinvest those savings in their strategic priorities and advance their mission. Huron helps you realize savings and other benefits through proactive category management and strategic sourcing implementation. Our experts also partner with clients to establish or improve their strategic sourcing capabilities with a combination of classroom training and hands-on guidance.

The proactive management of a contract from initiation to award, compliance and renewal can lead to significant improvements in cost savings and efficiencies. Huron helps clients improve their contract lifecycle management organizations, processes and technology across all enterprise contracts. We help you optimize your organization and technology and streamline processes while balancing the appropriate level of risk management.

Institutions must optimize existing technologies to focus on continuous improvement and maximize return on investment. Huron understands the most successful technology implementations require business process transformation and change management to realize their full potential. Our spend management experts have significant experience across a broad range of technology solutions that span functional areas, including eProcurement, accounts payable automation, contract lifecycle management, supplier management, strategic sourcing, spend analytics, and travel and expense management.