In some cases, the business has already identified the source, and the strategic supply group negotiates the contract and manages the relationship.

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You sign up, you go to your local pharmacy and Medicare negotiates group prices.

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Naya Jeevan negotiates and buys group-health plans from insurance companies at below-market rates and leverages corporate distribution networks, supply chains, and human resources to distribute, market and co-finance the plans.

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Over the next five years his company plans to increase its number of beds to 30, 000, making it the largest private-hospital group in India and giving it more bargaining power when it negotiates with suppliers, thus driving down costs further.

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