ACCESSING SAVINGS: UNDERSTANDING GROUP PURCHASING ORGANIZATIONS (GPOS)

Group Purchasing Organizations commonly referred to as GPOs are collaborative entities that pool the purchasing power of various healthcare facilities. By leveraging their collective buying power, GPOs negotiate reduced prices with vendors on a wide range of medical supplies. This allows participating hospitals to achieve significant cost savings a

following manufacturing, the concluded product or service has to reach the end person. This is where distribution comes in. determined by a company’s business model, the solution can be routed via wholesalers to retailers or it could ship directly from makers to retailers – as well as consumers. During this phase of the supply chain, merchandi