Rising cost pressures, labor shortages and supply chain issues drive demand for GPOs

LBMC, a top business consulting and advisory firm in the nation, is experiencing record demand for its Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) offerings to accommodate clients’ needs to cut costs as they navigate record inflation, 全球波动, 材料/劳动力短缺. On average, GPOs save businesses between 10-25 percent on annual purchasing.

A GPO is an entity created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. 

LBMC采购解决方案的GPO has a strategically curated business and industry contract portfolio for healthcare companies, 法律, 金融, 专业服务公司, 独立企业, 特许经营权所有者, offering shared savings from pre-negotiated contracts with more than 3,100家行业领先供应商.

These significant discounts cover a variety of business needs, including:

  • 医疗/外科物资
  • 办公用品
  • 办公家具
  • 复印机
  • 旅行
  • 电子产品
  • 运输成本
  • 设备供应/服务
  • Information 技术 (IT) including equipment purchasing
  • 电信服务
  • 食品和餐饮服务用品
  • 专业服务, HR services, payment solutions, and more

Businesses are turning to GPOs to take advantage of savings not only through reduced prices negotiated into the purchasing contracts, but also saving time by standardizing and streamlining the purchasing process, custom options and even enhancing human resources and employee benefits.

“There is strength in numbers when you join a diversified base of 225,000 members representing over 70 classes of trade, and businesses need these cost saving opportunities now more than ever as they navigate this economic landscape,” 阿什利·帕特森, Vice President, Client Services, LBMC采购方案. “The purchasing power when you tap into a $69B combined annual purchasing volume allows clients to really benefit from negotiated pricing that translates into real savings for their organization. Because of the uptick in demand for our GPO services, we now offer two options: a premium, 精品风格, 采购解决方案, and our recently launched stand-alone 自主GPO.”

关于LBMC采购解决方案

LBMC采购方案 offers fractional procurement services as a boutique solution that removes scale as an obstacle for clients and a stand-alone self-service GPO. We help businesses better monitor costs, 报告费用, and provide spend analysis for any size company with or without purchasing or procurement teams. Full 采购解决方案s might include every activity involved in obtaining the goods and services a company needs to support its daily operations.

About the LBMC Family of Companies

LBMC is a top 32 accounting and advisory firm that provides complex, unique advisory and compliance solutions to over 10,在全国范围内拥有5000名客户. The firm’s broad range of services includes tax, audit & assurance, transaction advisory, cyber risk services, litigation & 估值, 医疗咨询, 数据的见解, 增长与创新, 人事及人力资源外包, 技术解决方案, 金融 outsourcing and procurement, and high net wealth planning and management for family offices and individuals. Primary industries include healthcare, 技术, 制造业, 私人股本, 专业服务, 和非营利性. LBMC is a top 3 firm in 纳什维尔 and a Pacesetter for Growth as well as a Top 5 Regional 会计 firm on 会计 Today’s 2022 Top 100 Firms list, and a 2022 Forbes Top 税 and 会计 Firm. LBMC is proud to be a national Certified Great Place to Work for two years in a row, with more than 750 team members across the U.S. and offices in 纳什维尔, 诺克斯维尔, 查塔努加, TN and 夏洛特, NC.