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Whether on TV or Radio, Corporate United’s Clevenger shares insight about one of the industry’s premier events
May 5, 2011
Putting aside for the moment the fact that a light stand fell over during the live TV broadcast forcing me to rediscover my cat like reflexes from my hockey playing days, and causing my screen to turn a cavalcade of colors for a few moments, David Clevenger’s overview of what can reasonably be considered one […]
Synergy 2011 Celebrates 10 Years of Delivering Insight to a Changing Industry
May 3, 2011
Corporate United, the nation’s largest group purchasing organization, is pleased to announce its SYNERGY 2011 conference will be held May 3-5 at The Hotel Sax in Chicago, IL. SYNERGY 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of this industry-leading spend management conference. This event promises to bring together the foremost supply chain and spend management professionals for […]
Corporate United’s continued growth bucks the GPO trend in terms of 2010 study by delivering balanced value
January 27, 2011
Corporate United Achieves 17 Percent Growth in Membership, Expands Infrastructure by 15 Percent CLEVELAND, OH (January 27, 2011) – Corporate United, the nation’s largest group purchasing organization, announces significant growth in 2010, as it adds 26 new member companies and a number of key employees to its staff. Whenever I see headlines or press releases […]
Is Fragmentation Undermining the Purchasing Profession: IACCM’s Tim Cummins Believes It Is
January 12, 2011
For groups like contract management and procurement, there are no universal standards of practice. Unlike fields such as medicine, engineering and the law, there is no firmly established professional ethic or body of knowledge. And without this, they can never achieve sustainable professional status. Fragmentation clearly works against establishing such standards and ultimately proves inefficient […]
“Executive 100 Company” designation a manifestation of Corporate United’s successful origins
May 19, 2010
CLEVELAND — May 18, 2010 — Corporate United, the nation’s largest group purchasing organization (GPO), has been chosen by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine as an “Executive 100” supply chain thought leader for the fourth year. Supply & Demand Chain Executive selected Corporate United for the award for its role in preparing its member […]
The Modern Group Purchasing Organization: Leveraging Spend, Increasing Value
January 10, 2010
“In the United States, a group purchasing organization (or GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees that are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee. Some […]
Procurement Insights 
Is the traditional association dead? Not if you’re proactively evolving your curriculum like ISM!
March 19, 2012
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On the 28th of March I will have an opportunity to talk with ADR International’s Bill Michel about his organization recently being acquired by the Institute for Supply Management or ISM. For those of you who have followed both this blog and the PI Window on Business Show on Blog Talk Radio, you know that […]