Strategic Sourcing Team

We have assembled a team of professionals that are highly experienced and expert in the product categories they represent. This allows them to:

Identify, understand and appreciate the unique requirements of our individual customer locations; Define and implement item standards for clients that reduce costs, increase quality and create a homogenous environment across all client locations; Develop comprehensive Consortium Sourcing bid agreements using our cyclical bid process; Establish standards and conduct negotiations that fulfill unique requirements on behalf of individual customers; Utilize the full breadth of our client and supplier historical benchmark item data to make fully informed and sound economic sourcing decisions; Manage our supply base toward a set of shared objectives; and, Manage proposed price changes to the benefit of all of our customers.

CONSORTIUM AND CUSTOMER SPECIFIC SOURCING

Sourcing more than 2.5 million items across 52 commodity categories is just the beginning; we actively manage price points on behalf of our customers. Our team takes the job of managing our customer price points very seriously. As a result, over the last 6 years, our price points have outperformed the Producer Price Index for intermediate materials, supplies and components by nearly 40% to the benefit of all of our customers.

DSSI employs a comprehensive supplier management program that allows us to classify suppliers within one of four designations including Premier, Preferred, Primary and General. These supplier designations are achieved through consistent performance against specific criteria within the following categories:
RFQ Performance Financial Settlement Order Confirmations PO Promise Date Changes Shipping Performance Catalog Content Savings
Congratulations to our Premier Suppliers
Informs Inc.
Resistance Welding Machine & Accessory
Volk Corporation
Office Depot
Magid
Dayton Progress