OMNIA Companions, a private and non-private group buying group, introduced a serious growth of OPUS – the corporate’s free e-commerce platform that gives public sector and nonprofit companies entry to pricing and contract phrases throughout tons of of suppliers. OPUS customers can now purchase merchandise from eight new nationally acknowledged suppliers, streamlining the buying course of for the whole lot from workplace provides to industrial gear.
“Practically 5,000 authorities companies and nonprofits are utilizing OPUS to modernize their procurement course of and extra simply entry the advantages of cooperative contracts,” stated Todd Abner, OMNIA Companions Founder and CEO. “The user-friendly expertise and performance of our platform is fixing the staffing constraints and excessive calls for being positioned on shopping for organizations. They can get the services and products they want at trade main costs shortly, whereas nonetheless adhering to their compliance necessities.”
Discovering the suitable services or products throughout a variety of practical departments is usually difficult for procurement leaders. OMNIA Companions developed OPUS to treatment this problem, permitting organizational consumers to seek out something they want in a single place, with one login and one procuring cart throughout a number of suppliers.
Now, county governments masking almost 25 % of the U.S. inhabitants are utilizing OPUS, together with 1000’s of different metropolis governments, faculty programs and nonprofit organizations. OMNIA Companions continues to put money into bettering OPUS options to raised serve these clients, whereas additionally including notable new suppliers and product classes accessible for buy on-line beneath its cooperative contracts.
Eight new suppliers have made their catalogs accessible for buy in OPUS, representing greater than 4 million SKUs in additional than 90 classes, together with upkeep, restore and operations (MRO), protecting security gear for regulation enforcement and first responders, workplace provides and medical training provides. In whole, OPUS customers have entry to merchandise from roughly 300 suppliers.
New suppliers who at the moment are promoting on OPUS embody:
- ODP Enterprise Options (previously Workplace Depot Enterprise Options) – A distributor of workplace provides, furnishings, know-how, cleansing and breakroom services and products.
- International Industrial Firm – A nationwide distributor of business and MRO merchandise wanted to run companies and services.
- Grainger – A nationwide, broad line distributor of MRO services and products together with technical assist and stock administration.
- Lawson – A nationwide distributor of business, industrial, institutional and authorities MRO services and products.
- MSC Industrial Provide – A nationwide distributor of a broad vary of metalworking and MRO options.
- Pocket Nurse – A provider of medical training provides for nursing applications, EMS coaching, pharmacy tech and bodily remedy.
- Quill – A nationwide on-line retailer of important workplace provides for organizations together with paper, ink, toner, cleansing and breakroom provides, furnishings, know-how and customized printing.
- Safeware – A nationwide distributor of specialty merchandise for the safety of regulation enforcement companies, fireplace departments, rescue operators, hazmat groups and authorities entities.
“Including these category-leading suppliers is a serious step ahead within the worth OPUS delivers to clients,” stated Denise Woodside, OMNIA Companions EVP of Operations and Digital Technique. “Our world-class provider companions are dedicated to serving to us transfer the trade ahead with the identical fashionable know-how and shopping for expertise that all of us take pleasure in in our private lives.”
OPUS is free to all public sector and nonprofit companies within the U.S., and since it’s a web based e-commerce website, there is no such thing as a implementation or arrange and no subscription prices.
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