Helping Purchasing Co-ops Better Leverage Technology

Dear attendee,

As part of the upcoming NCBA CLUSA Purchasing Conference, please help us better understand how your purchasing group is using technology to reach your business goals.

The results from this survey will be used to help foster conversation for NCBA CLUSA purchasing conference attendees, and the consolidated results will ONLY be shared back to all survey participants and Purchasing Conference attendees during the technology panel and WILL NOT be used for outbound marketing.

Please only reply once per organization. We thank you in advance for your participation!

- NCBA CLUSA & OrderWithMe.com

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* 1. In which of the following ways do you currently communicate information to your members? Please check all that apply:

Phone calls

Members-only intranet site

Public facing site

Ordering system

Tradeshow/annual member meeting

Other

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* 2. If you have a member intranet site, do you store your vendors’ price lists on this site?

Yes

N/A

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* 3. If yes to above, how do you maintain updated pricing from vendors?

Our staff maintains the price lists

We give vendors a way to maintain it

N/A

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* 4. How do you get vendor catalogs to members?

Vendors send catalogs to members

We provide digital PDF’s for members

We maintain live catalog data for members

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* 5. Do you offer your members a way to place purchase orders through you (i.e. a central ordering system) or do members usually place orders directly to vendors?

Yes (we offer central ordering)

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* 6. Do you consolidate payment from your members to your vendors (i.e. central billing)?

Yes (we offer central billing)

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* 7. Do you guarantee your members’ payment to your vendors?

Yes

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* 8. Does your group generally negotiate solely back-end rebates or do you also negotiate upfront pricing deals in addition to back-end rebates?

Just back end rebates

We also negotiate upfront pricing

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* 9. How quickly do you receive rebate information back from your vendors?

Real time reporting/daily

Within a week or two

Under a month

Over a month before we get full data

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* 10. Does your co-op have an electronic way to receive rebate information from your vendors or do you primarily rely on manual follow-up from your staff?

We get our rebate information electronically

Our staff has to manually follow-up to get reports from vendors

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* 11. Do you offer a trade show app for your members' Annual Meeting?

Yes

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* 12. Are there any other apps you provide, or have thought about providing, to members? If so, please describe what you offer/would like to offer.

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* 13. Do you receive your members sell-through data (i.e. data on how product is being sold through their business)?

Yes

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* 14. How do you get this sell-through data? If you don’t collect sell-through data, please write N/A.

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* 15. Do your supplier partners want you to provide better forecasting data from your members?

Yes, this would be very important

We already provide pretty good data

Not a major concern

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* 16. Do you offer your vendors electronic invoicing/electronic payment on your members' behalf?

Yes

No/ Not sure

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* 17. If technology were not a problem, what larger strategy goals would you ideally like to solve for your co-op?

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* 18. If you know the names of the technology provider/website that you use for the following parts of your business, please name them here in order to share them with other attendees:

Email platform to members:

Survey tool:

Members Intranet site:

Ordering software:

Rebate tracking software:

Member meeting / trade show app:

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* 1. In which of the following ways do you currently communicate information to your members? Please check all that apply:

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* 2. If you have a member intranet site, do you store your vendors’ price lists on this site?

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* 3. If yes to above, how do you maintain updated pricing from vendors?

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* 4. How do you get vendor catalogs to members?

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* 5. Do you offer your members a way to place purchase orders through you (i.e. a central ordering system) or do members usually place orders directly to vendors?

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* 6. Do you consolidate payment from your members to your vendors (i.e. central billing)?

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* 7. Do you guarantee your members’ payment to your vendors?

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* 8. Does your group generally negotiate solely back-end rebates or do you also negotiate upfront pricing deals in addition to back-end rebates?

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* 9. How quickly do you receive rebate information back from your vendors?

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* 10. Does your co-op have an electronic way to receive rebate information from your vendors or do you primarily rely on manual follow-up from your staff?

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* 11. Do you offer a trade show app for your members' Annual Meeting?

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* 12. Are there any other apps you provide, or have thought about providing, to members? If so, please describe what you offer/would like to offer.

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* 13. Do you receive your members sell-through data (i.e. data on how product is being sold through their business)?

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* 14. How do you get this sell-through data? If you don’t collect sell-through data, please write N/A.

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* 15. Do your supplier partners want you to provide better forecasting data from your members?

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* 16. Do you offer your vendors electronic invoicing/electronic payment on your members' behalf?

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* 17. If technology were not a problem, what larger strategy goals would you ideally like to solve for your co-op?

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* 18. If you know the names of the technology provider/website that you use for the following parts of your business, please name them here in order to share them with other attendees:

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* 19. Are there any of the above (or other applications) that you would highly recommend?

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* 20. What else would you like to ask of your fellow purchasing groups?