When Avendra joined forces with BirchStreet Systems, our goal was to provide a centralized, online approach to managing a wide range of purchasing tasks and activities.
  
BirchStreet, the hospitality industry’s leading e-procurement and purchasing system provider, offers a web-based system that automates manual purchasing tasks, provides in-depth visibility into purchasing activities across the organization, facilitates streamlined commerce with suppliers, and enables integration with other processes and systems related to purchasing functions.

Benefits include:

• Increased visibility
  Purchases originate from one, central online location, with an audit trail of purchasing activity
  
  
• Increased savings and consistency
  Avendra-leveraged items are flagged for easy identification, leading to savings and consistency
  
  
• Increased control
  Order guides control purchasing behavior and keep properties buying the right products with specifications that are in-line with brand standards
  
  
• Avendra supplier support
  Avendra suppliers are already integrated with BirchStreet, providing a comprehensive solution from the start
  
  
• Stronger communications
  BirchStreet provides ordering approval controls, compliance monitoring and budget tracking
  
  
• Global view 
  Obtain a global view of all purchasing across the company, aggregating enterprise data in real-time
  
  
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P) functionality
  The comprehensive P2P solution provided by Avendra and BirchStreet increases cost savings, procurement visibility, control and has unlimited scalability