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Hospitals
08.15.2019
Won’t My Patients and Nurses Revolt if I Sign a Beverage Deal?
“If I sign an exclusive beverage deal, won’t staff revolt? Everyone knows that some battles in life are just not worth fighting.” Some healthcare executives, upon first hearing about the lucrative opportunity a beverage deal can represent, are initially...
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07.31.2019
Five Things Your Soft Drink Representative Doesn’t Want You to Know
You probably like your main soft drink company rep. He or she is probably a good person. You are probably not inclined to challenge him or her in any significant way. Your companies are partnered, after all. You’re in a...
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07.9.2019
Attending HealthTrust University 2019 in Nashville? Here’s Everything You Need to Know.
HealthTrust University ("HTU") is only a few weeks a way. With more than 2,000 healthcare and supply chain professionals attending, this is the premier conference for networking with industry leaders, learning from your peers about new trends and best practices,...
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04.9.2019
Are The Savings Too Good To Be True?
“When you see numbers like this, it just feels too good to be true.” This sentence, expressed to me earlier this week from a newly engaged client, is one that I hear surprisingly often. Can you really save your...
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02.14.2019
What Happens When You Change Cola Suppliers?
For over 30 years, I’ve watched people agonize over whether or not to switch their beverage supplier. About half of that time, I was on the beverage company side, trying to convince restaurant operators to stay with or switch to...
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11.10.2018
Ensure That You Hit Your 2019 Savings Goals with a Beverage Deal
It's November. You have probably already settled on your primary strategies for achieving significant cost savings in 2019. But, like any savvy supply chain exec or CFO, you know that you need a cushion, a back-stop, a sure-thing, sure-fire way...
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07.13.2018
We Can’t Drink Juice Now?!
In case you missed this recent New York Times opinion piece published by three accomplished pediatricians, let me summarize it for you: Don't drink fruit juice and don't let your kids drink it, either. What?! That's right. Just don't drink...
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06.19.2018
When Is the Right Time to Start the Beverage Contract Process?
Our clients and prospective clients often ask, “How far in advance of the expiration date should I start thinking about the contract?” The right answer is “now”. If Your Contract Will Soon Expire: For a contract that will expire soon,...
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01.17.2018
Why Coke & Pepsi Care That the Healthcare Sector Now Employs the Most People in the U.S.
With so many troubling and consequential issues swirling about in the minds of hospital executives these days, I bet that you are not wondering about what beverage company executives think about the large and growing number of employees on your...
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01.1.2018
What are those “new beverage deals” that so many of your peers are talking about?
I suspect that you are skeptical (like all of our clients were at first) that you can truly save or make your company hundreds of thousands of dollars—especially just by partnering with us to negotiate a new beverage deal for...
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08.15.2019
Won’t My Patients and Nurses Revolt if I Sign a Beverage Deal?
By Tim Harms
“If I sign an exclusive beverage deal, won’t staff revolt? Everyone knows that some battles in life are just not worth fighting.” Some healthcare executives, upon first hearing about the lucrative opportunity a beverage deal can represent, are initially...
Read Full Post07.31.2019
Five Things Your Soft Drink Representative Doesn’t Want You to Know
By enliven
You probably like your main soft drink company rep. He or she is probably a good person. You are probably not inclined to challenge him or her in any significant way. Your companies are partnered, after all. You’re in a...
Read Full Post07.9.2019
Attending HealthTrust University 2019 in Nashville? Here’s Everything You Need to Know.
By Tim Harms
HealthTrust University ("HTU") is only a few weeks a way. With more than 2,000 healthcare and supply chain professionals attending, this is the premier conference for networking with industry leaders, learning from your peers about new trends and best practices,...
Read Full Post04.9.2019
Are The Savings Too Good To Be True?
By Tim Harms
“When you see numbers like this, it just feels too good to be true.” This sentence, expressed to me earlier this week from a newly engaged client, is one that I hear surprisingly often. Can you really save your...
Read Full Post02.14.2019
What Happens When You Change Cola Suppliers?
By enliven
For over 30 years, I’ve watched people agonize over whether or not to switch their beverage supplier. About half of that time, I was on the beverage company side, trying to convince restaurant operators to stay with or switch to...
Read Full Post11.10.2018
Ensure That You Hit Your 2019 Savings Goals with a Beverage Deal
By Tim Richardson
It's November. You have probably already settled on your primary strategies for achieving significant cost savings in 2019. But, like any savvy supply chain exec or CFO, you know that you need a cushion, a back-stop, a sure-thing, sure-fire way...
Read Full Post07.13.2018
We Can’t Drink Juice Now?!
By Tim Richardson
In case you missed this recent New York Times opinion piece published by three accomplished pediatricians, let me summarize it for you: Don't drink fruit juice and don't let your kids drink it, either. What?! That's right. Just don't drink...
Read Full Post06.19.2018
When Is the Right Time to Start the Beverage Contract Process?
By enliven
Our clients and prospective clients often ask, “How far in advance of the expiration date should I start thinking about the contract?” The right answer is “now”. If Your Contract Will Soon Expire: For a contract that will expire soon,...
Read Full Post01.17.2018
Why Coke & Pepsi Care That the Healthcare Sector Now Employs the Most People in the U.S.
By Tim Richardson
With so many troubling and consequential issues swirling about in the minds of hospital executives these days, I bet that you are not wondering about what beverage company executives think about the large and growing number of employees on your...
Read Full Post01.1.2018
What are those “new beverage deals” that so many of your peers are talking about?
By Tim Richardson
I suspect that you are skeptical (like all of our clients were at first) that you can truly save or make your company hundreds of thousands of dollars—especially just by partnering with us to negotiate a new beverage deal for...
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