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Inaugural membership- Purchase Order Management

As members of the Purchase Order Management consortium, our designer members have access to one “go-to” source for all of their purchasing needs. Additionally, as members, they receive the pricing that we receive.

They will have the benefit of
    - one centralized location to get all pricing, send all payments, and get reports on all orders
    - a company with established credit accounts with many showrooms, vendors, and manufacturers
    - credit history and open accounts that can generally give you preferred pricing
    - the use of a professional staff to purchase, track, arrange shipment, and manage payments for all orders

As members of the design industry ourselves and as operators of a small interior design firm, Gibson Design Management understands what it’s like to be in the designers' shoes. In our own design firm, we have seen what works and what does not when it comes to ordering, tracking, and billing. We know which technology to utilize and which systems to implement in order to make sure that the project runs smoothly and efficiently. We know what to do to make sure that our members make as much money as possible on their orders. Why go through the trouble of recreating the system when you can utilize a system that’s already been built, tested, and approved?

Membership in GDM’s Purchase Order Management consortium is both more cost effective and more time efficient than hiring a new employee or performing the tasks themselves. With a new employee, you have to pay salary, provide benefits, pay additional taxes, provide computers, phones, and space, as well as invest time in training and management. When they manage their own projects, they are losing valuable billable hours. They could be selling more goods, finding more clients, and working on more projects instead of spending hours placing and tracking purchase orders.

As we learn more from our members and other designers in the industry, we will introduce additional memberships to best serve their needs.  We look forward to making our members' businesses more efficient and more profitable.