Hospitals typically control supply costs through group purchasing organizations and supply chain networks like Vizient and GHX, which are built for hospital-scale contracts and volume. Outpatient and multi-site clinics usually need a lighter procurement platform that controls spending at each location. Order.co gives each clinic a catalog of approved products and vendors, sets budgets by location, routes orders for approval before they’re placed, and consolidates invoices from every vendor into weekly or monthly bills. Order.co AI also compares prices across a network of 40,000+ vendors, saving customers an average of 5% on products. Physical Rehabilitation Network uses Order.co across 141 locations, consolidating 85 vendors into one monthly invoice and saving about $3,000 per month.

With a procurement platform, each location orders its own supplies from an approved catalog, and the central team sets the rules instead of placing every order. Order.co routes each order through approvals by location, places orders with every vendor, and consolidates spend into weekly or monthly invoices broken down by location. Before Order.co, PRN’s purchasing coordinator collected orders from every location and placed them by hand. Now each of PRN’s 141 locations orders its own supplies.

Often, yes. A GPO negotiates contract pricing on high-volume commodity supplies. A procurement platform controls how each location orders, approves, and pays for everything, including purchases outside the GPO contract, like office supplies and one-off vendor orders. Many multi-site clinic groups use both: GPO pricing for contracted categories, and Order.co to manage ordering, approvals, and invoicing across locations.