How We Help
CPO Advantage helps our clients by getting to know their businesses. We assess the procurement processes and methods each client uses, and then provide a written proposal detailing how and where CPO Advantage can provide business impact by making the procurement process cost effective, efficient and convenient.
We help our clients in 5 ways:
Consolidation
CPO Advantage offers our clients a web-based utility to order products, stock inventory, and consolidate billing and product-tracking information. When supplies run low, the ordering process is as simple as clicking "order". No more phone calls, hunting for the best bargain, or having to manage multiple vendors.
Management
CPO Advantage manages our clients' entire supply lists. During our consultation process, CPO Advantage works with each client to understand which products are necessary to efficiently run the practice, and then we construct a user-friendly online catalog of these products. The catalog is uploaded onto a password-protected account in our system, enabling a product manager to reorder and restock items with ease through a secured web browser interface.
Savings
The savings CPO Advantage offers our clients is significant.
Beating your current prices
Due to our national network of suppliers and our unique model of operations, our prices are always competitive, if not lower than your current prices.
Controlled Markup on All Items
Part of what makes supply-management so frustrating is the markup on items can vary drastically, even with the same vendor. Clients may find they have been getting a great 10% markup on half of their items, however, the other half has been marked up drastically. Overall savings, when looking at the entire picture, can actually be quite limited and far closer to retail then one might imagine. CPO Advantage provides competitive pricing without the pricing games of so many suppliers.
Increased efficiency
CPO Advantage's easy-to-use online ordering system provides a single place to order, track, and pay for office supplies. Each account is tailored to client preferences around quality, cost, and availability.
Time
CPO Advantage provides clients with access to our online, easy-to-use, custom-ordering system. Here, the process of ordering inventory and tracking invoices is reduced to a few simple clicks.
Personalized Help
CPO Advantage is a privately owned company that prides itself in being big enough to offer superior savings, but small enough to know all of our clients by name. A client who forms a relationship with CPO Advantage can expect us to know its procurement needs inside and out. Our phones are often answered by Chris Ringenberg, the company's owner, or one of his senior executives, not by office managers, sales reps, or call centers. As we continue to grow, we commit to our clients to maintain that degree of personalized account management and organizational transparency.
Web-Based Ordering
By moving your supply ordering to the Web, you gain efficiency, transparency, speed, and ease-of-use. Phones and faxes still have their place, but the advantage of on-line ordering – aside from sheer convenience – is a full digital audit of all orders as clients place them.
