Value Proposition

Corporate United provides a unique value proposition to our members, including a number of attributes that make us different than any other procurement services provider;


Leverage

By creating the world’s largest virtual organization, Corporate United provides our members with the strength of a $500 billion enterprise. This leverage is applied to negotiations, supplier management, and ongoing total cost of ownership improvements, ultimately making every Corporate United member a “customer of choice.”

 

While this scale is the key factor in enabling Corporate United to negotiate favorable pricing, terms, and conditions for our members; the value of leverage goes well beyond initially identified savings. Because of our size, Corporate United is able to maintain visibility at all levels of our suppliers’ organizations, leading to more effective supplier management and development opportunities.

 

Knowledge

Corporate United facilitates an unrivaled network of spend management professionals who participate in a dynamic forum. By sharing best practices across industries and categories, our members are able to efficiently identify the practical information they need to improve their performance, while the information resident within the group is used to enhance our agreements.

 

A wide variety of high quality research options exist in the supply chain space, but when it comes to easily accessible information required to solve day-to-day issues, no forum provides as much value as membership in Corporate United. Furthermore, our committee-based sourcing and supplier management processes are positioned to take advantage of the massive amounts of experience and knowledge resident within our membership and extended network. 

 

Support

Resource flexibility is critical to our members’ spend management organizations, and by providing sourcing, implementation, and supplier and contract management services, Corporate United helps our members multiply their own efforts.

 

In this era of rising budget constraints and limited top-line growth opportunities, bottom-line improvements are a company’s best option to maintain margin. When limited resources threaten to impede those improvements, access to the Corporate United suite of products and services is an invaluable asset to our members.

 

Efficiency

The Corporate United model eliminates opportunity cost by providing our members with immediate access to leveraged agreements. This speed-to-market advantage is further enhanced by our contract management and implementation support functions, helping members to quickly realize identified savings.

 

Taking a “lean” approach to supply chain management is increasingly important to every major corporation, and Corporate United’s ability to accelerate our members’ access to savings is a benefit that can’t be replicated by any other approach. 

 

The application of collaboration across each of the four pillars of our value proposition makes Corporate United the most unique procurement services provider in the spend management space.

"An overall expenditure reduction of 15% plus improved terms and conditions with the same supplier! There is nothing like volume to get a supplier to sharpen their pencils."