Drug & Alcohol Screening Services Market Procurement Intelligence Report

Business practices within Drug & Alcohol Screening Services market are heavily influenced by changing trends across the category as well as within the broader Clinical and Medical Support Services market. Buyers that have multiple locations under management are increasingly opting for a single supplier who can deliver the preferred solutions in a consistent manner across locations. Often suppliers with a physical presence across key geographies are preferred in such cases.

The growing need for highly skilled workforce specialized in Drug & Alcohol Screening Services is driving suppliers to increase compensation for experience professionals to retain them. This is inflating their OPEX and causing increase in procurement costs.

Companies that serve multiple markets are increasingly facing the dynamism in regulatory frameworks across countries. Coupled with increased costs across the value chain, suppliers are hard pressed to alter their business models and pricing structures to remain relevant in the market.

As a result, category managers need to closely monitor the Drug & Alcohol Screening Services procurement trends and identify changes required in their procurement environment for the category.

It has become imperative for category managers to remain as agile as possible in terms of their procurement practices. However, it is not always easy to quickly spot and implement alternative practices in a category like Drug & Alcohol Screening Services. To help quick decision making, this report advises on several procurement best practices that have worked well for category managers.

For example, Large organizational buyers can leverage their scale of operations to initiate competitive bidding between suppliers. Competitive bidding would enable buyers to have a better visibility of the market prices and may help identify suppliers that offer the most competitive price offering viz-a-viz other players.

Investing in benchmarking studies help category managers enhance their knowledge about market pricing or billing rates based on job roles and functions. This allows them to not only save costs but also negotiate with suppliers. For example, while negotiating on rates of bundled services, buyers can save significantly on a single service by cross verifying the rates quoted by suppliers against industry benchmarks.

Large organizations seek engagement with global category suppliers. However, they must try to achieve the right blend of regional and global suppliers in order to ensure the delivery at locations where global players do not have necessary capabilities.

Drug & Alcohol Screening Services procurement managers also need to proactively identify and mitigate potential risks that can arise in the supply chain or contracts for Drug & Alcohol Screening Services procurement. Some examples include: