Reducing Costs for Members

“Prime Advantage helped us to save a lot of money on direct costs compared to what we’ve been buying in the past. Also Prime Advantage Endorsed Suppliers are truly partnering with us so our engineers can meet their engineers and work together. You need that real commitment between the two companies so you can invite them to your facility, work hand in hand with your engineers, look at your product and not just sell your products but help design your next piece of equipment.”

- Bill Hickey
Executive Vice President, A. J. Antunes

“Prime Advantage has become our number one cost savings method.”

- Bob Larson
Procurement Specialist, Hatco Corp.

“You negotiate your own price for your company with Prime Advantage Endorsed Suppliers. Prime Advantage negotiates your rebate for you, so you are getting lower cost in the front as well as a rebate at the back end.”

- Margaret Goosby
Purchasing Agent, Franke Foodservice

“We’ve found immediate savings by working with Prime Advantage Endorsed Suppliers. We used to work with suppliers right outside our back door, but we’ve made switches to Prime Advantage Endorsed Suppliers that are from all over the country, Baltimore, Ohio and Texas…etc, bringing them all to the West Coast and we’re still saving money from it. It’s a great thing.”

- Lisa Catanzano
Purchasing Manager, The Montague Company

Ensuring Qualified Suppliers

“The Endorsed Suppliers within Prime Advantage have been quality suppliers. They are suppliers that have been brought in via the Members. I have more faith in dealing with a referenced supplier because it is an established relationship, rather than trying to find out on my own what the supplier is like. There’s definitely a huge benefit in that.”

- Bob Loftus
Materials Manager, Stewart Systems

“I think there are many ways that we benefit through Prime Advantage. Henny Penny has been able to discover new suppliers in various commodities and we’ve also been able to develop stronger relationship with suppliers. I think everyone comes out a winner.”

- Jim Shepherd
Senior Purchasing Analyst, Henny Penny

“Most of the Prime Advantage Endorsed Suppliers aren’t suppliers that show up in web searches, yellow pages or the Thomas Registries. I wouldn’t have picked those folks as somebody to contact to submit bid packages to but Prime Advantage opened doors and we’ve seen significant cost savings.”

- Kevin Hymers
Materials Manager, Novatec Inc.

Providing Additional Resources

“I think Prime Advantage is everything that is advertised. When I first met with my Prime Advantage Regional Account Manager, he laid it out just the way it is and my experience to this date is exactly what was promised.”

- Claude Juncker
Director of Purchasing, Pellerin Milnor

“Curt. G. Joa Inc. immediately benefited from becoming a member of Prime Advantage, through the addition of new suppliers into the mix. These suppliers gave us more competitive bidding for our products, helped us standardize on some items, increased our leverage with the existing suppliers, and brought new technical knowledge to our organization.”

- Dewey Stevens
Purchasing Manager, Curt G. Joa

Achieving Greater Networking Clout

“The savings are all great, but it’s the opportunities we gained with new suppliers that we may never have found. That is just as important as the savings.”

- Jim Shepherd
Senior Purchasing Analyst, Henny Penny

“If you are going to get cooperation between buyers and sellers, you really need to get top management involvement. So we realized first hand that’s something we would commit to and then very quickly we realized that’s something that makes perfect sense. I’m an Executive Vice President with A.J Antunes & Company and our Purchasing Manager works with me and it’s great that during the semi-annual conference meetings the two of us can spend quality time together and with his top 30 suppliers face to face.”

- Bill Hickey
Executive Vice President, A. J. Antunes

“Upon completion of our first Prime Advantage conference we found ourselves working on strategic alliances with these suppliers but also a large contingency of fellow buyers that became an immediate resource and reference to new technologies and processes within our profession.”

- Dewey Stevens
Purchasing Manager, Curt G. Joa

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