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New Research: Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and Consortia -- What You Need to Know

New Research: Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and Consortia — What You Need to Know

By Jason Busch on September 13, 2011

I’ll admit, for quite a long time, I found the philosophical concept of typical group purchasing organizations or consortia to be somewhat flawed. After all, any entity or intermediary that makes its revenue from suppliers tied to the …

Posted in Business | Tagged Consortium, Fortune 1000, Group purchasing organization, research | 1 Response

Broadlane, MedAssets and the Future of Healthcare Spend

Broadlane, MedAssets and the Future of Healthcare Spend

By Jason Busch on September 14, 2010

Earlier this morning MedAssets announced it was acquiring fellow healthcare GPO Broadlane. According to the announcement, MedAssets “has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire The Broadlane Group … Broadlane Gro…

Posted in Business | Tagged Broadlane Group, Group purchasing organization, Health care, Healthcare, MedAssets, Spend Management, supply chain | 1 Response

One Vote in Favor of Group Purchasing Organizations for Simple Categories

One Vote in Favor of Group Purchasing Organizations for Simple Categories

By Jason Busch on December 8, 2009

In the debate over group purchasing organizations (GPOs), I’m still
not entirely convinced that they represent a good investment outside
of a handful of select spend areas — at least for most companies.
After all, the payoff for doing sourc…

Posted in Business | Tagged BPO, Category Management, GE, GPO, Group purchasing organization, MRO, Outsourcing, procurement, rfp, Sourcing

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