Common procurement gives better prices
Sourcing benefits customers in the form of competitive offers and ready-made campaigns. Sourcing helps ensure quality throughout the value chain. There will be progressive initiatives involving new added-value products and other value-generating initiatives such as labelling.
It does make a difference, of course, whether you buy four crates of plants from fifty different suppliers or buy 150 crates from only one. The example illustrates one of the basic reasons for creating the Sourcing group: a common, international procurement division of GASA GROUP aimed to generate benefits for all types of customer by providing competitive offers and readymade campaigns.
Sorcing thinks big
- Previously, we sometimes obtained 120 different prices, but today we can coordinate things, plan the flow of goods and thus get the best prices. Whereas in the past small wholesalers may have purchased only half a container-load, now they’re getting the products at a better price because we’re buying 100 container loads at a time, with considerable discounts - explains Jyri Pörsti, Category Manager for flowering plants.
Sourcing equals synergy
Sourcing is a fairly new concept at GASA GROUP but it has already generated the desired synergies. By focusing on customers, product development
and new products from all over the world, GASA GROUP can offer tomorrow’s blockbusters in the desired quantities. It is all about thinking innovatively and looking ahead, to ensure that our customers have the right products on their shelves and to enable growers to plan their production.
Poul Graff from the nursery Graff Kristensen sees GASA GROUP’s Sourcing initiative as a necessary and sensible step in the right direction towards safeguarding the future for Danish nurseries.
- As a development business, we’re in close dialogue with sourcing about which and how many new varieties to make. It’s nice to have shared
commitment, which actually means that our products are sold before we even start producing them.