Strategic Sourcing

Over $750 million in leveraged spend and category expertise drives our results.

Our customers understand that delivering on our savings commitments begin with our strategic approach to sourcing. Our procurement team is dedicated to managing our customer's MRO spend. We have a range of expertise, resources, intellectual capital and tools no single company would ever invest in. In fact, prior to our VMS MRO program, many of our customer’s purchases are never sourced at all. VMS experts can help you achieve significant results across commodities that are typically under managed, while your internal resources can be focused on more strategic core activities.

Our dedicated strategic sourcing team works in concert with our category managers and our VA/VE team to integrate our structured sourcing methodology with deep category knowledge. This allows VMS to combine our insight into category specific pricing levels (nationally and regionally), market dynamics and cost drivers with leading sourcing tools and techniques such as; our global spend data warehouse capturing over 2 million transactions a year, should-cost price modeling, reverse auctions, and global price benchmarking to identify and realize significant savings for our customers.

To drive better results faster, our experts work with our professional buying team sharing real-time information about supplier performance, capabilities, contractual commitments, and transaction volumes to accelerate and improve sourcing results.

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