Modernize Procurement for Higher Education
Empower your institution with trusted supplier intelligence to streamline sourcing, reduce risk, and protect your mission.
Due diligence, supplier intelligence and monitoring at scale
Colleges and research institutions rely on diverse supplier networks spanning construction, labs, and research partnerships, each with complex regulations and evolving ESG priorities. Craft’s Supplier Intelligence Solution simplifies due diligence and monitoring at scale, ensuring partner integrity, financial stability, and compliance so you can focus on advancing academic and operational excellence.
Uncover foreign affiliations, conflicts, and influence
Protect against financial instability and compliance risk
Promote ESG and safeguard institutional reputation
Customer Spotlight
“We have limited team resources to spend going to multiple places to find supplier data. Craft gives us a single supplier intelligence source of truth to expand our visibility into strategic sourcing and due diligence, making our category managers far more efficient and effective.”
CPO, Public Research University
Streamlined Intelligence, Measurable Impact
One Platform to Protect Funding and Ensure Compliance
Streamline supplier risk, ESG reporting, and due diligence across your institution and research ecosystem with Craft.
Protect Funding
Protect Your Research & Grant Eligibility
Stay eligible for federal research funding and safeguard access to critical grants with transparent, trusted supplier intelligence.
- Proven supplier intelligence procurement and supply chain teams can trust
- Comprehensive Data Fabric with validated insights beyond self-reported surveys
- Deep visibility into foreign ownership, affiliations, and associations (UBO, patents, licensing, blocklists, politically exposed persons, etc.)
- Automated portfolio checks to flag benchmark violations and compliance risks early
Ensure Compliance
Ensure Compliance With Confidence
Meet ESG, sustainability, and ethical sourcing requirements with comprehensive, audit-ready supplier data.
- Intuitive, AI-integrated supplier profiles and portfolios
- Comprehensive risk scans across ESG, financial, cyber, and regulatory dimensions
- Curated alerts tailored to your compliance priorities, never miss what matters
- Collaboration workspaces to streamline documentation, reporting, and cross-department sharing
Save time & effort
Save Time Across Every Department
Simplify due diligence and accelerate workflows with a single platform for procurement and compliance teams.
- Easy-to-use, intuitive platform designed for higher education procurement teams
- Automated portfolio scans to surface red flags at scale
- Quickly respond to changes in supplier health with curated alerts
- Downloadable company profiles, project tracking, and team collaboration tools to speed reviews and reporting
Whitepaper
Addressing Procurement Challenges in Higher Education
Procurement leaders at higher education institutions are grappling with an array of unprecedented challenges shaped by financial constraints, regulatory requirements, and evolving institutional priorities. Understanding these challenges is the first step towards developing effective solutions.