Best Buy Business: Education Case Study

Use it or lose it. That’s the challenge many school districts face when it comes to utilizing fiscal budgets and grants. The challenge for this school district was finding a partner to secure their specific educational technology needs before they lost their funding. Not only did they need a massive quantity of commercial and consumer tech, they also needed a partner with the infrastructure, project management skills and relationships to deliver the products. All this while meeting procurement parameters and a seven-week timeline. And the clock was ticking.

When a school district representative walked into a Best Buy store looking for iPad covers, the store’s General Manager quickly identified the client had an urgent and complex business need and connected her to the dedicated Best Buy Education account team. To meet the challenges, scope, timelines and budget of this project, Best Buy Education quickly went to work on the following:

• We engaged key manufacturing partners to negotiate the best pricing.

• We secured inventory and confirmed availability for on-time delivery.

• We engaged our contract, legal, financing and supply chain teams to deliver project support.

• We leveraged our OMNIA Partners contact to expedite school procurement guidelines.

Every phase of the process was project-managed to gain and avoid miscommunications that can happen with large-scale and quick-moving projects. This provided a single point of contact for the client, providing transparency and confidence that the project was hitting milestones and deadlines.