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.