Multiply margin in indirect spend
Bring category expertise and governance to non-clinical spend to protect the margin siloed contracts quietly erode.
Your indirect spend needs governance
Indirect and purchased services consume significant non-labor dollars, but many health systems manage them in fragmented silos, reacting late with limited pricing intelligence. Vizient changes this pattern. We bring unified category expertise and comparative benchmarks to non-clinical spend, enabling you to capture margin systematically across contracts and renewals before value leaks away.
In practice
What better indirect spend discipline makes possible
$11M through centralized governance
Regional system consolidated vendors and centralized contracts, realizing $11 million in sustainable savings.
Data reveals hidden indirect spend leaks
Data analysis plus executive governance transforms indirect spend management from reactive to strategic systemwide discipline.
Pharmacy and indirect lead inflation surge
Three expense categories surge above 3%, requiring immediate strategic planning and real-time cost visibility.
Starting with manageable cost-savings strategies allows healthcare organizations to create momentum, build trust, and capture quick savings with minimal operational disruption.
Indirect spend inflation demands strategic control
Indirect spend comprises up to 25% of hospital expenses while inflation climbs nearly 4%, making disciplined cost management essential to margin protection.
Total hospital expenses
Approximately 20 - 25% of a hospital’s total expenses are related to indirect spend and purchased services
Projected inflation rate
We predict a 3.85% inflation rate on indirect spend and purchased services between July 2026 and June 2027
PRODUCTS
The capabilities behind the solution
Purchased services consulting and category expertise
Bring specialized healthcare procurement support to categories that are too important to manage only at renewal time.
Purchased Services Analytics
Use large-scale category data to compare pricing, identify outliers and build stronger sourcing positions.
Enterprise Spend Visibility
Replace fragmented contracts with enterprise visibility
Make non-clinical spend visible across facilities, vendors, and renewal cycles so leaders can find fragmentation and leakage before it compounds.
Category-Specific Expertise
Bring specialized expertise into hard-to-staff categories
Facilities, IT, food services, environmental services, and purchased services contracts can all carry meaningful savings opportunity, but many health systems do not have the internal category depth to optimize each one consistently. Vizient helps close that gap with healthcare-specific procurement expertise.
Sustainable Savings Strategy
Turn category insight into durable savings
Benchmarking and consulting matter most when they translate into stronger contracts, centralized governance, and savings that hold beyond a single sourcing event. Vizient helps leaders move from isolated wins to repeatable procurement discipline.
ASSESS YOUR ORGANIZATION
See your organization's performance in perspective
See how you compare and where to focus next.