Can GPOs Help Ease the Pain?

摘要

Procurement departments have rarely been under as much pressure to achieve cost savings for their companies, but as David Clevenger, a vice president with Corporate United points out, this is "complicated by the fact they are being asked to do this with fewer resources than they ever had before."rnHelp is at hand with group purchasing organizations (GPOs) such as Corporate United that provide member companies with sourcing, contract management and networking opportunities. Corporate United works with its 145 member companies to identifyrnhigh-quality suppliers,rnnegotiate group pur- chasing rates and serve as an ongoing resource to manage the supplier relationship.rnCorporate United serves a wide variety of ndustries, providing group agreements for products and services rang- ing from office supplies to material handling equipment management. While the size of its members vary, Clevenger says they typically have sales of about $4 billion and 12,000 employees.