Protects Your Margins
In retail, every cost you can’t see comes out of your margin. The goods you sell get a lot of attention, but indirect spend like store supplies, packaging, facility services, uniforms, and technology is often spread across hundreds of locations and suppliers. CenterPoint Group helps multi-location retailers cut store operating costs through group purchasing, strategic sourcing, and supplier consolidation, so every location buys the right products at the right price.
Trusted by 500 of fortune 5000 companies
Retail procurement isn’t one-size-fits-all. A grocery chain, a specialty brand, and an online retailer each spend
differently. Their indirect spend needs differ too.
CenterPoint combines group purchasing leverage with retail category expertise. Whatever your format, we help
you lower store operating costs and keep purchasing consistent across every location.
Standardize pricing and purchasing across regions with supplier programs built for a national store footprint.
Lower costs on bags, packaging, uniforms, and in-store supplies without compromising the brand experience.
Reduce shipping, packaging, and fulfillment costs as online order volume and carrier rates keep rising.
Spend
Without central contracts, the same box of receipt paper or cleaning supplies can cost very different amounts depending on the location.
Store purchasing spans P-cards, invoices and vendors. That makes it hard to see where money goes or which savings to pursue first.
Retail procurement teams are often small and focused on merchandise. That leaves little time to source facility services, MRO, uniforms, or telecom.
New openings, remodels, and seasonal peaks bring rush orders and off-contract spending. It’s hard to keep standards and costs consistent across locations.
Reduce Costs
sourcing expertise. The goal is to standardize purchasing across every location and lower
total store operating costs.
Consolidate purchasing data across stores, distribution centers, and corporate offices to find supplier overlap, price differences, and quick-win savings.
Get access to pre-negotiated GPO contracts for high-volume retail categories. You get enterprise-level pricing without running a full RFP for each category.
Cut down your supplier base, negotiate better terms, and lock in service levels that work for a national store footprint.
Roll out approved catalogs and preferred suppliers to every location, so store managers order on-contract quickly and easily.
Track pricing, supplier performance, and store-level compliance continuously, so savings hold up through seasonal peaks, openings, and growth.
Measurable Savings, From Day One
Retailers can’t wait months to see results. CenterPoint’s pre-negotiated supplier programs start lowering costs
as soon as they go live, with no lengthy sourcing events.
Our team keeps reviewing your spend and suppliers, so savings continue as your store network grows.
15-30%
Savings on Business
Supplies
Lower costs on paper, receipt rolls, and everyday essentials for stores and corporate offices.
20-40%
Savings on Select
Categories
Achieve deeper savings in high-impact categories like wireless, telecom, and connectivity services.
100+
Spend Categories
Covered
From facility services to packaging, access supplier programs across the categories that keep your stores running.
30-45Days
To Full Implementation
Roll out programs across your locations quickly, with savings starting from your first order.
Measurable Business Impact
improve supplier performance, strengthen procurement operations, and unlock long-term
savings opportunities.
Identify savings opportunities, improve supplier pricing, and strengthen contract value across procurement categories.
Gain deeper visibility into procurement activity, supplier performance, and sourcing opportunities.
Supplier OptimizationGain deeper visibility into procurement activity, supplier performance, and sourcing opportunities.
Modernize procurement operations through automation, AI-powered sourcing, and intelligent procurement workflows.
Reduce procurement costs, improve sourcing efficiency, and automate purchasing decisions with AI-powered insights.
Your Team
hands-on execution across sourcing, supplier management, procurement transformation,
and cost optimization initiatives.
Modernize procurement through AI-powered sourcing, automated RFx workflows, and procurement intelligence tools.
Strategic sourcing, spend analysis, supplier negotiations, procurement process improvement, and cost takeout initiatives.
Access negotiated supplier programs, aggregated purchasing leverage, and stronger commercial outcomes across procurement categories.
Critical Spend Categories
across high-impact indirect spend categories.
Smarter Procurement Performance
industries seeking measurable savings, operational efficiency, and stronger supplier
outcomes.
“I am happy to say that CenterPoint is one of AmeriHealth
Caritas
Family of Companies’ finest
business partners. They support our
business
supplies program throughout the United States with next
day delivery and prompt account
management.”
“We have utilized CenterPoint to help us audit and benchmark
our
Office Supplies purchases in North
America. They helped us improve
our overall
contract, find additional savings for this commodity, and
build on our existing good
relationships.”
“CenterPoint Group were extremely instrumental with regard to
the
facilitation of a very complex and
dynamic indirect spend RFP. Their
number
crunching, spend analysis and reporting capabilities are
invaluable services.”
“CenterPoint Group helped take my project to the next level.
They are
true professionals and I would
recommend them to anyone.”
What is a GPO, and how does it benefit my business?
A Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) combines the purchasing volume of its members to negotiate better pricing, contract terms, and service levels with suppliers. For your business, this means access to rates that would normally require far higher individual spend to qualify for. A GPO also handles supplier negotiations, contract management, and ongoing billing oversight, which frees your procurement team to focus on other priorities instead of vendor-by-vendor haggling.
What procurement categories does CenterPoint Group cover?
CenterPoint Group covers 60-70+ indirect spend categories through 300+ supplier contracts. The major categories include MRO and industrial supplies, office supplies, safety and PPE, wireless telecom, software and IT, packaging, hotels and car rental, janitorial, lab supplies, facilities, shipping, and human resources. If a category falls outside our existing contracts, our Sourcing Desk™ service can run a custom RFP to source suppliers for that specific need.
Does it cost anything to join CenterPoint Group?
No. There is no membership fee to join CenterPoint Group. Our service fee is embedded in supplier pricing, so members pay nothing out of pocket to access our pre-negotiated contracts and account management services. There are also no long-term contracts or purchase minimums required.
How quickly can a company start seeing savings after joining?
Most clients see savings within the first month. CenterPoint’s GPO contracts are pre-negotiated and ready to activate, so members can plug into existing supplier programs without waiting for a lengthy RFP process. Program onboarding typically completes in less than two weeks, and average member savings run around 20%, though specific results vary by category and current pricing.
Is there a minimum spend requirement to participate?
No. There is no minimum spend required to join CenterPoint Group. Members agree to use best efforts to source at least 80% of their related category spend through CenterPoint’s programs, but there is no dollar threshold or volume floor to qualify for membership or access pre-negotiated pricing.
powered sourcing, procurement consulting, and global purchasing leverage designed for
measurable business impact.