Question

Select a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO). Identify the following:

locations

services

facilities

sites

Lastly, determine the criteria for membership.

Answer 1

A Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) provides different healthcare materials to the various goods and services which develops contracts with suppliers. There are a lot number of big and small businesses are joining GPO. GPO is now new concept of online marketing.

This strategy allows various organizations not only big industries but also small scale industries of buying in bulk amount by joining together through using a purchasing platform.

GPO allow to each businessman to reduce cast, faster procurement and less transactional cast.

The GOP should be selected on the following basis:

Location: Location is one of the prime important factor for selecting GPO, it should be near about so that you can get very fast delivery of the desired products. In case any query you can easy visit to the location.

Services: This is also important factor, it should be very clear what kind of services is being provide by the GPO. In the healthcare related field it must be avail the all kind of medicines and major and minor instrument.

Facilities: The GPO will provide the different facilities to their customers. There are several GPO which details about their facility. You have to choose who is proving product with better price.

Sites: sites are very important in GOP system but sites should be also inspected before selecting the GPO.

Membership: There are various benefits to member in the GPO system. The various companies give several discounts on the bulk amount to purchase of the products. Mostly these companies are provides their services through online. Companies try to attract the customers by giving them membership with various benefits such as discounts on medical supplies, nutrition, pharmacy and laboratory.