Integration helps streamline and automate the
school purchasing process for 5,254 IRIS Financial
customers
LONDON, April 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IRIS Software
Group (IRIS) today announced the availability of Amazon
Business e-Procurement for IRIS Financials. This integration will
enable more than 5,000 UK schools to purchase supplies directly
from Amazon Business through their IRIS Financials system, cutting
out a number of time-consuming manual steps.
Schools regularly purchase bulk items from Amazon Business, such
as textbooks, stationery, computers, whiteboards, safety equipment,
sports, music, art and science equipment, furniture, cleaning and
catering supplies and Special Educational Needs (SEN)
resources.
Available now, this collaboration allows purchasing teams to
launch Amazon Business's digital catalogue within their IRIS
Financials purchasing system. Offering full integration with an
existing Amazon Business account, purchasing teams benefit from a
familiar Amazon check-out process, prefilled purchase order lines,
automatic generation of purchase orders and approvals, and purchase
reconciliation.
"This is a fantastic collaboration, underlining IRIS Education's
commitment to the education sector, and showing how we continue to
innovate to help schools and trusts," said Simon Freeman, Managing Director for Education
at IRIS. "Being able to handle Amazon e-procurement within IRIS
Financials transforms the time intensive manual processes that are
performed daily. It removes the need to re-key information from
Amazon into a purchase order, alleviates the usual juggling between
applications to copy over information from Amazon to a purchasing
system and dramatically reduces the steps needed in gaining
approval for purchases."
"We're thrilled to be collaborating with IRIS to bring
streamlined procurement for thousands of schools around the UK,"
said Fabricio Pedroza, Country
Manager, UK&I at Amazon Business. "This collaboration means
we're able to offer UK schools and multi-academy trusts a wide
range of products through their existing IRIS Financials purchasing
systems, providing easy access to Amazon Business's digital
catalogue. Through automating admin tasks, and offering increased
visibility and an easier and improved purchase reconciliation, this
partnership will enable schools to focus on what's important: the
education and success of its students."
IRIS is focused on developing software solutions that
consolidate data across multiple systems, automate processes and
alleviate the unnecessary time-drain educational staff currently
face. With 30 years' experience in education management
solutions and a presence in 90 countries, IRIS has the broadest
education software suite in the UK, with 75% of MATs and 12,000 UK
schools and academies — including half of the schools in
England — now using its
solutions.
About IRIS Software Group
IRIS Software Group is a global provider of mission critical
software and one of the UK's largest privately held software
companies. IRIS provides software solutions and services for
finance, HR and payroll teams, education organisations and
accountancy firms that takes the pain out of processes and lets
professionals focus on the work they value. Through simplifying,
automating and providing insights on everyday mission critical
tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures
customers can look forward with certainty and confidence.
IRIS is the largest third-party online filer with the UK
Government. Ninety-one of the top 100 UK accountancy firms use IRIS
software. One in six of the UK's workforce is paid by IRIS payroll
offerings, and globally, six million employees receive their
payslip via IRIS software every month. More than 850,000 UK
employees are managed by IRIS HR solutions.
Over 12,000 UK schools and academies use IRIS, with four million
parents and guardians using IRIS apps to connect with their
children's school; 300 million messages are delivered between
schools and parents each year and over £15 million transactional
payments are processed every month.
IRIS is certified as a Great Place to Work® and recognised as
one of the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing, one of the Best
Workplaces in Tech and one of the Best Workplaces for
Women.
Follow IRIS on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
More information on its award-winning software solutions can be
found here.
For press inquiries:
Tory Waldron
IRIS Software Group
Tory.Waldron@irisglobal.com
Logo:
https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2376347/Iris_Software_Logo.jpg
View original content to download
multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iris-and-amazon-business-collaborate-to-help-simplify-school-purchasing-302125901.html
SOURCE IRIS Software Group