This is a re-post. Original post from January 12, 2015 can be found here.

Roswell, NM, January 12, 2015 —New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), a state-supported military junior college, and Unimarket, an innovator in spend management solutions for higher education, have signed an agreement to implement full eProcurement and eInvoicing automation with integration to NMMI’s Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains finance system.

NMMI conducted a thorough search and selection process evaluating the features and benefits of the leading eProcurement providers and chose Unimarket as the one provider that meets all of their comprehensive requirements, including functionality, flexibility and cost.

COL Judy Scharmer, Chief Financial Officer at NMMI, says,

“One of NMMI’s strategic objectives is to employ the best available technologies to enhance sound fiscal policies and support the efficient use of personnel time. We think Unimarket’s eProcurement system is a significant step into NMMI achieving that objective. NMMI is excited about moving out of our antiquated time intensive paper process. Our users have been asking for an electronic solution for some time now and we finally found it with Unimarket.”

– COL Judy Scharmer, CFO at NMMI

Peter Kane, Chief Executive Officer of Unimarket commented,

“Unimarket is pleased to add New Mexico Military Institute as our first customer in New Mexico, reinforcing our continued national growth. This was a competitive and thorough, cross-campus process and we are delighted that once again a unanimous decision was underpinned by end-users preferring Unimarket as more user-friendly. The Unimarket solution has been built from the outset with ease-of-use as a key design element, as we firmly believe this drives adoption, which in turn drives value for the institution.”

– Peter Kane, CEO at Unimarket

The Unimarket eProcurement solution implementation will commence within the coming weeks and is expected to launch campus-wide by April 2015.

Author: Daniel Perry

About New Mexico Military Institute

New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) is a state-supported educational institution located in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. Known as “The West Point of the West,” NMMI remains the only state-supported co-educational college preparatory high school and junior college in the United States. Serving the educational needs of an international student population, the Institute has strict admissions standards that yearly result in an enrollment of approximately 1,000 students who come from 43 states, the District of Columbia, and 13 foreign nations.

NMMI grants High School diplomas and Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees. The Institute’s emphasis on qualities of honor, integrity, and responsibility, contributes to its unique educational philosophy.

For more information visit: http://www.nmmi.edu/

About Unimarket

Unimarket was formed in 2005 to deliver collaborative electronic procurement solutions for businesses using the latest technology to enable them to easily connect and transact with their suppliers in a single portal to save costs, improve efficiency, and reduce paperwork. The solution uses a multi-tenant architecture and is provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model.
The hallmarks of Unimarket’s solution are ease-of-use and an open-market philosophy of unlimited users and unlimited supplier connections delivered in a cost-effective manner. Having great technology is just the enabler so Unimarket takes a unique partnership approach with all their customers to ensure they get the most from their product on an on-going basis, including proactive assistance with supplier enablement, organizational rollout, best practice process improvements, and more.

For more information visit: http://www.unimarket.com/