Company Profile –

Since 1997, Corporate United has been assisting the world's largest and leading companies realize the power of leverage and indirect spend savings on their bottom lines. Corporate United facilitates an unrivaled network and provides the services and resource flexibility companies need to manage their enterprise spend requirements.

Corporate United provides more than 100 Global 2000 companies across every industry sector with sourcing and contract management solutions. As the world's leading group purchasing organization, Corporate United helps members succeed by combining leverage, knowledge, and sourcing expertise to achieve more from supply chain efforts.

Since our inception, Corporate United has facilitated sourcing events resulting in 15 leveraged contracts across a wide variety of indirect spend areas; with new categories being added each year. We have implemented these agreements in hundreds of instances, driving millions of dollars in savings. Our commitment to ongoing contract management and supplier development helps Corporate United members identify millions more in post-sourcing efficiencies.

Our diverse member base extends across a wide range of industries, including aerospace, consumer and industrial manufacturing, chemicals, defense, financial services, health care, insurance, leisure, media and telecommunications. This unique structure affords our members the opportunity to share practices across industry sectors.

By combining commodity knowledge, strategic sourcing expertise, and ongoing contract management, Corporate United is able to provide the services and resource flexibility companies need to more effectively manage their enterprise spend requirements. In doing so, our members achieve more out of their supply chain efforts.

Power of True Leverage

Our membership represents combined revenues of more than $400 billion and an active employee base of over 1.2 million people. This vast network provides tremendous market clout and the ability to aggregate significant spends across any number of indirect categories; leading to substantial savings for our members. In the hundreds of cases in which our agreements have been analyzed against other contracts, Corporate United has demonstrated savings 97% of the time.

But leverage goes beyond savings. Our members enjoy the strength of Corporate United in all of their supplier interactions. Whether it is improvements in service levels, a direct line of communication to leadership, or rapid resolution of issues; Corporate United is able to advance our members' cause with all of our supplier partners.

Operational Efficiency

By providing our members with pre-negotiated agreements that are proactively managed throughout the contract life cycle, cost savings are realized in weeks rather than months; allowing our members to concentrate their efforts on other strategic priorities. The opportunity cost commonly associated with long sourcing processes is eliminated. Unlike other third-party strategic sourcing partners, we facilitate implementation to ensure the identified savings are realized.

Comprehensive Service Offering

Our portfolio of contract offerings provides a number of choices. Regardless of industry, our members can participate in leveraged contracts representing spends in the areas of Human Resources, Marketing and Communications, IT & Telecom, Facilities and Maintenance, Finance & Consulting, MRO, and Engineering & Laboratory. This portfolio continues to grow based on the needs of our members, who continue to drive the key decisions at Corporate United.

Corporate United also offers our members access to an elite list of approved consulting partners who rank among the leaders in the supply chain space and extend their services to our members at discounted rates.

Continuous Learning

Given the ever-changing supply management landscape, our members are easily able to go outside the walls of their own organizations and access the wealth of knowledge that is resident within the group. A number of formal and informal sessions are made available throughout the year to facilitate this process which includes, our annual SYNERGY conference, collaborative roundtables, best practice sharing events, category steering committees, informal networking, and member meet and greets.

Our interactive member message board provides individuals with access to hundreds of their peers throughout the group. This unique and powerful tool affords each member with the opportunity to interactive in what is rapidly becoming one of the most effective virtual learning and sharing communities in the supply chain space.

Member Advocacy

As a member-driven organization, our job doesn't end when a contract is implemented. We continue to work as an advocate for our member companies to ensure that our supply partners comply with current contract terms and conditions, remain vigilant in driving higher compliance, and seek improvement opportunities and methods to help reduce total cost of ownership.

These ongoing efforts to drive value out of our members' supply chains demonstrate Corporate United's commitment to help enable our members to optimize the performance of every one of our agreements.

Unique and Sustainable Value Proposition

Serving as an extension of your spend management organization, Corporate United is able to offer the unprecedented scale, category expertise, immediate savings possibilities, and access to a vast network of thought leaders to help in optimizing your procurement efforts.

The unique component of our group purchasing model is that with each new member that joins, our value proposition to the whole group becomes that much more compelling.

By joining the nation's largest and leading companies as they combine leverage, knowledge, and sourcing expertise to achieve more, you will enhance your own supply chain efforts.

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