Business Strategy Small User Saves 25 Percent from Direct Purchase
✍ Scribed by Willett, Robert E.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0743-5665
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✦ Synopsis
With almost no continuing effort, Elmhurst Memorial Hospital of Elmhurst, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has been saving substantially as it purchases natural gas. In the most recent year, said Peter J. Bartu, director of maintenance and engineering, "We had solid 25-percent savings." For Elmhurst, these savings are about $82,000 a year.
The savings required almost no effort on the part of the hospital. Bartu said: "Unless I'm out looking at different bids, different contracts and stuff like that, I maybe spend a couple of hours a month on the actual nominating procedure. When I'm actually reviewing contracts, rebidding, I may spend a couple of days on that." The hospital's marketers do the rest.
If this seems like very little work for such great savings, it is. Elmhurst's situation provides a case study concerning how a small-to-medium-sized institutional user can save a great deal of money with very little effort.