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Varis Overview

What is Varis?

Varis (formerly BuyerQuest) is consumer-like procurement technology with a marketplace of trusted suppliers, driving hard cost-savings and employee productivity. Partners and customers can create curated marketplaces that include their existing contracts as well as pre-negotiated contracts across complementary categories that aren’t currently being managed. Users have a one-stop shopping experience with one search and one shopping cart to find everything they need. Varis also helps organizations digitize and automate processes to increase finance and procurement efficiency. Despite this robust functionality, Varis can be implemented in a matter of weeks with little IT overhead or ongoing administration.

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Product Description

Varis (formerly BuyerQuest) is consumer-like procurement technology with a marketplace of trusted suppliers, driving hard cost-savings and employee productivity. Partners and customers can create curated marketplaces that include their existing contracts as well as pre-negotiated contracts across complementary categories that aren’t currently being managed. Users have a one-stop shopping experience with one search and one shopping cart to find everything they need. Varis also helps organizations digitize and automate processes to increase finance and procurement efficiency. Despite this robust functionality, Varis can be implemented in a matter of weeks with little IT overhead or ongoing administration.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Varis is reimagining procurement to change the way buyers and sellers connect, contract, and transact, making it simpler, less expensive, and more relationship based. It is easier to use and easier to implement than typical enterprise-class procurement solutions. Our technology not only enables individual organizations, but also empowers our partner community to build marketplaces to serve the needs of complementary technology users, association members, and customers.

Varis helps organizations manage a broader range of indirect spending categories by offering pre-negotiated contracts with nationally accredited high-quality vendors. These vendors are carefully selected to provide category coverage, meet SLAs for customer service, and provide options for diverse suppliers. Public sector organizations can also easily access sharable contracts competitively bid by lead public agencies.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
Cleveland, Ohio
Twitter
@BuyerQuest
1,271 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
10 employees on LinkedIn®

Brooke R.
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Director, Customer Operations @ Varis | Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Organization Planning and Development

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5.0 out of 5
"Great service!"
The variety of materials and supplies offered.
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Mike D.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great way to stay organized"
The dashboard helps to keep all your actions visible. There are even alerts sent to your email that allow you to take action, even from your mobil...
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"Amazing place to get the items you need!"
That fast shipping and great support that they have
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A one-stop curated marketplace to search all suppliers by keyword, category, or supplier. It contains your existing suppliers, complementary pre-negotiated suppliers, and sharable contracts for public sector organizations.
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Verified User in Construction
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What do you like best about Varis?

Every dealer at the same place make it so easy to compare between items and get the best bang for your bucks! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

I didnt find any disagreement yet by using this method. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time saving, comparing differents offerings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mitch F.
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Restaurants
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What do you like best about Varis?

The fact that I can go to one place to find everything that I need for the restaurant. It is a time and labor saver. I also like the fact that I have all my invoices run through corporate, and I do not have to manage sending payment to all the suppliers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

The only thing that I wish had more functionality is if the most popular items ordered by supplier showed up first. Other than that, the experience has been seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Varis:

Great product that save hours of work. It helps in consolidating all the suppliers in one location, and it helps saving time managing payments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have realized time saved when ordering products. I can order all the items at one time from multiple suppliers, instead of spending time searching multiple suppliers sites. I also save time managing payments. Since payments are handled through Supply Central and Corporate, it save time not sending multiple payments to multiple vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen T.
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Entertainment
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What do you like best about Varis?

I like that I can search across all suppliers, or narrow my search to a specific supplier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

The searches are good, but could be improved, so that better results show up. I have to be fairly specific on some searches. When I don't always know the exact item I am looking for, it is sometimes difficult to narrow the search enough so that I am not scrolling through long search results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Varis:

This is a worthwhile investment to allow many suppliers show products in one location, which makes the purchasing process easier for the employees who order them. It also streamlines the process of procurement for professional buyers by making access to suppliers easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am saving time and am more efficient in purchasing items for my company. Also, since the purchasing system on buyerquest has expanded since it's rollout, it is easier to find items, which before I would have to research on my own, and obtain quotes to have professional buyers do the purchasing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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2nd grade teacher
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What do you like best about Varis?

I like being able to compare prices and products for items that I'd like to purchase for my classroom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

Sometimes I can't find what I'm looking for because the item is listed under a different name. For example I was looking for different colored pocket folders and it took a while to find what I was looking for but I finally found some under portfolios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Varis:

If you are in the School District of Palm Beach County, I find the marketplace to be a quick and mostly easy way to get items that I need quickly and at a good price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can look at items from more than one vendor in one place instead of searching multiple websites. I also like that I can do a side by side comparison of products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Restaurants
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What do you like best about Varis?

The simplicity of searching by part number, or name. Billing is automatic, and shipping is quick with delivery tracking and confirmation! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

This is probably out of my control, but some items dont have images, so its hard to tell if its the right product, but im sure overtime you will have updated photos! However 95% of items that i have needed to order had a photo and was easy to track! Another option i would like is the option to "Cancel" an order. LIke maybe a 12 hr window, have the option to cancel. Also our store has numerous managers that order items, it would be nice to have access and see like a master purchase history that show which manager ordered what part and when, so we dont double order items. Hope this feedback helps! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of use billing wise! We no longer have to pay invoices, its all automated! And we save time by not having to call and describe to someone what you are looking for. Especially if you arent tech savvy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Varis?

I like the fact that supplier websites are quick and easy to transfer into SRM. This makes it fast & simple to get a shopping cart created in order to order small tool items & materials from vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

I dislike the fact that when KMP transfers the cart information into an SRM Cart that there is no option for me to select default settings on the cart, such as Account Assignment (WBS Coding), shipping address, notes, or anything else. I end up having to go through each line item on the SRM Cart and inputing this information. If there was a step to set Defaults up before every item hit the cart it would make this process so much faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Varis:

Use the Supplier Websites as they work the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes paying Invoices from the supplier vendors seamless with a GR. Other vendors are more difficult to get paid due to improper matching of the Invoice vs the PO & GR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kitchen Director
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What do you like best about Varis?

That I can order everything for my restaurant in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

It is sometimes difficult to find a small random part if I don't know the exact name of it. I actually have to go our old ordering site, look it up, copy the item number, and then find it on supply central Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Varis:

Works very well to create a system that can be used for a large company that is looking to streamline ordering processes across multiple platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

It definitely makes paying invoices on our end a lot more simple. We don't have to enter as many invoices on our end, since the system does it automatically for us now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kim R.
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Non-Profit Organization Management
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What do you like best about Varis?

The ease of one stop shopping. All goods and services needed can be purchased on one site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

Hard to search within a subcategories. A search in subcategory would make it easier and less time consuming to find a product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Varis:

I highly recommend BuyerQuest. It has simplified our ordering and allowed us more time to focus on driving sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time is valuable and BuyerQuest has simplified our ordering process and giving us some valuable time back. Also, we are please to have the ability for operator approval prior to placing orders. This keeps our budget on point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Varis?

My favorite thing was how simple it is now. Having nearly everything in one place. Even bringing in Partstown helped tremendously. I also like the way you can save thjngs without putting them in your cart by using the lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

I still had issues finding things on the webpage. Maybe I’m just not used to it yet. But having a commonly ordered tab would be beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ordering has just become easier and more likely to get done. It’s helped us become more consistent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Varis?

When you first open the page, its easy to click on vendors and you're automatically signed into a corporate account for checkout. Plus it's really nice to shop within multiple companies and complete one checkout. Very slick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Varis?

Flipping PO's is quite clunky. Would be nice to have an interface designed specifically for flipping PO's, rather than going through the 'cannot find what you're looking for' button.

On another note, I never use the search bar. Because it usually it doesn't give me the results I want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Varis solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's serving as a one stop shop for most STS needs. Which speeds up my day. Not having to enter card #'s, and having everything pre-loaded is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.