CPC - Concrete Products Cooperative, LLC

We as procurement professionals, focus on the concrete products industry. We use a disciplined sourcing process to develop buying strategies that provide best value to our members. Through continuing market research from a buying perspective, we have excellent insights to evolving market conditions and capabilities of suppliers who serve this industry.

For our membership we offer:

Supply agreements with key suppliers across a wide range of categories that provide outstanding potential for lowering operating costs. Once the member agrees to join a supply agreement, we commit their business to the commercial terms of the cooperative agreement and the member must ensure high compliance.
Benchmarking of member costs to determine supply categories offering best potential for reducing costs. These reviews are performed under confidentiality agreements to protect sensitive information.
Facilitate implementation of supply agreements with members to accomplish an orderly transition of business in a seamless manner.
Provide market intelligence to members each quarter to provide insights to supply category trends.
Bring leading edge concepts to our members to take advantage of the latest supply chain efficiencies. This includes working capital reductions, purchase-to-pay process improvements, integrated supply concepts, outsourcing opportunities, continuous improvement processes with suppliers through KRA goals and process improvement assessments.
Product/material application evaluations that go beyond price reductions by providing incentives for suppliers to reduce the applied cost of member companies.
Lifecycle cost analysis for capital equipment to determine optimum low cost.
External resource support from key suppliers to improve process costs.
Value-add services such as supplier performance reviews, vendor managed inventories and free consultative services on sourcing strategies.

We are dedicated to obtaining the best possible value from good suppliers. This goes beyond good products at attractive prices. We strive to provide opportunities to lower process costs, reduce inventories, improve quality and service, and bring the latest industry technological improvements that are available from suppliers to the concrete products industry.