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Trident (News - Alert) Technical College, a public, multicampus community college based in South Carolina, has gone live with SciQuest’s Express Solution for Higher Education.

Thanks to SciQuest’s solution, Trident Technical College will now be able to work closely with other higher education institutions in South Carolina to consolidate procurement resources.

Officials with SciQuest said that Trident Technical College and participating institutions intend to use SciQuest solutions to pool their purchasing power to create a Consortium Community to drive cost savings and gains in purchasing efficiency.

“Trident Technical College is facing the same issues faced by so many institutions of higher learning – to cut costs and find ways to stretch the dollars they do have to deliver the best educational experience,” said John Fabris, vice president of higher education at SciQuest, in a statement.

By working with some of the largest and most prestigious schools in the world to automate critical business processes, SciQuest has developed a deep knowledge of the unique requirements of educational institutions.

“This allows us to work with schools like Trident Technical College to turn spending into a source of strategic saving,” Fabris said.

Company officials said SciQuest’s Express Solution for Higher Education, which is being integrated by Ellucian with the college’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, Colleague by Ellucian, is a stand-alone source-to-settle eProcurement solution pre-configured for quick implementation and minimal IT support.

According to company officials, SciQuest’s Express Solution for Higher Education, which is designed specifically for the unique needs of academic institutions, empowers schools to gain control over and enhance procurement strategies, delivering a seamless purchasing experience to every user on campus.

Earlier this month, SciQuest and eMolecules, creator of one of the industry’s most powerful compound sourcing platform, announced a partnership to make available eMolecules’ catalog of in-stock molecular building blocks within SciQuest’s Enterprise Reagent Manager (ERM)  platform. 

ERM users can now directly and seamlessly purchase in-stock molecular building blocks via eMolecules’ market-leading database.