Buying Group

Problem

Many companies in the medical equipment business have difficulty getting favorable pricing from manufacturers on commonly used products. The problem is that their purchasing volume is not sufficient to warrant volume discounts.

Solution

This application was designed to aggregate orders and function as a real time buying group. Essentially, a buyer would enter an order. The system would notify all of the other group members who could join in on the purchase. The “buy” would run for a set period of time. When it ends a purchase order for the entire groups order is negotiated with the manufacturer – in real time.