University of Leicester - the latest Science Warehouse customer

Oct. 12, 2010 - PRLog -- Leeds, United Kingdom – September 30, 2010 – Science Warehouse, a leading provider of web-based purchasing solutions and one of the fastest growing companies in the UK e-business sector, today announced the University of Leicester as a new customer. The University joins a rapidly growing customer community involved in research and life sciences that have chosen Science Warehouse to streamline order processing and deliver intelligent spend management.

The University of Leicester is a leading UK university committed to international excellence through the creation of world changing research and high quality, inspirational teaching.  It won University of the Year in 2008-2009 and has been profiled by The Times Higher Education  as “elite without being elitist.” The University has 23,000 students and a turnover in excess of £230m per annum.

Science Warehouse will provide the University with a powerful and highly user-friendly interface for purchasing backed up by vendor catalogue enablement and intelligent spend management. The solution will be fully integrated with University’s SAP back office system and purchasing card solution for seamless spend control.

Gary Hague, Deputy Director of Finance at the University of Leicester said “All universities are under increasing pressure to deliver more for less. As well as offering benefits for individual staff, the Science Warehouse solution will help us to become more efficient and will deliver substantial spend savings “

Richard Thomas, Purchasing Manager at the University of Leicester, said “We have been impressed by Science Warehouse’s track record in implementing successful e-procurement at other UK universities and look forward to working with them as we roll out the solution across the University of Leicester.”

Dr David Hames, Chairman at Science Warehouse, said “We are delighted to welcome the University of Leicester as the latest member of our Higher Education community. They join us at an exciting time of growth in our company.  We look forward to working closely with them to help deliver a high quality staff purchasing experience and significant efficiencies and savings.”

The University of Leicester joins a growing number of leading European research organisations using Science Warehouse solutions.

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If you would like further information please contact:
Sonia Ali
Science Warehouse
Telephone: +44 (0)113 384 4200
Email: sonia.ali@sci-ware.com
URL: www.sci-ware.com

University of Leicester
URL: http://www2.le.ac.uk/

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Science Warehouse is a leading provider of on-demand procurement and catalogue solutions. It helps customers deliver efficiency savings, procurement control and intelligent spend analysis.