Corporate United • member benefits

Member Benefits –

As a Corporate United member, you have access to a number of valuable benefits that will directly impact your business and the bottom line. These benefits are what make Corporate United a strategic part of our members’ organizations.

Corporate United is committed to providing procurement professionals with all of the tools they need to conquer the challenges of sourcing and managing contracts and excel in their positions. Through a variety of services, we enable our members to leverage their spend to achieve lower total cost of ownership across a variety of categories.

We also provide ample opportunities for our members to network and share best practices they can leverage to drive support and functional alignment around their initiatives and deliver results and host seminars and educational sessions to help them stay abreast of industry developments that may impact their businesses.

As a Corporate United member, you’ll be sourcing with the best and the brightest. Among the benefits you’ll enjoy:

Lower total costs
We help you realize savings, often in excess of 20%, on non-strategic goods and services. Our contracts enable you to lock in the most competitive prices and best service quickly and easily.

Simplified and improved procurement process
With our in-house commodity knowledge and strategic sourcing expertise, Corporate United is uniquely positioned to identify and source critical categories of spend where substantial savings can be generated. By providing access to the best practices we’ve learned through sourcing hundreds of contracts, we enable our members to enhance the efficiency of their buying procedures and focus on other key business activities.

Best-in-class contracts
By leveraging our members’ individual needs for purchased materials, services and capital goods, Corporate United secures greater service levels and value-added pricing from suppliers and effectively assists companies in lowering their total cost of ownership across a wide range of spend categories.

Increased compliance
Our team of experienced sourcing professionals manage both external vendors and internal buyers to ensure that contracts are effectively implemented and enforced on an enterprise-wide basis.

More responsive suppliers
Corporate United is your tireless advocate in ensuring supplier accountability. Our members set terms and conditions, which Corporate United manages and maintains. We simplify the procurement phase and smooth the way for new suppliers and/or contracts to be implemented. The end result is an easier rollout that saves both time and money.

Greater control over data and knowledge
Corporate United performs the benchmarking and analysis necessary to help members better understand the marketplace and optimize their strategic sourcing efforts. We also help ensure that information and knowledge are retained and shared with internal staff.

Complete confidentiality
As the leading and largest group purchasing organization, Corporate United operates under a full disclosure model. We act as a third party, anti-trust firewall to protect our member companies. All member data used for analysis, benchmarking and contract maintenance is kept strictly confidential.