As Input Costs Climb, CoreTrust Delivers Its Spend Intelligence Platform as Affordability Infrastructure

Predictable costs for the office of the CFO and steady demand for supplier partners, backed by $7 billion in aggregated spend and long-term contracts.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreTrust, a premier strategic group purchasing organization (GPO) and spend intelligence platform with over 20 years of experience and $7 billion in annual aggregated spend, helps more than 4,000 member organizations turn indirect spend into predictable cost management and measurable savings. That capability is increasingly important amid persistent inflation.

CoreTrust augments internal teams by taking on the heavy lifting of category strategy, supplier negotiation, and benchmarking, converting aggregated, scaled indirect spend into immediate and measurable savings even as producer prices climb at their fastest pace since 2022.

“Aggregating $7 billion of spend across thousands of organizations gives our members buying power beyond what they could command on their own. When affordability is under pressure, that is the difference between protecting margins and absorbing every price increase,” said Vikram Suresh, CoreTrust CFO. “Our members use that scale to lower their cost of doing business, and our supplier partners reach the market more efficiently and at a lower acquisition cost - both matter more than ever today. This is ‘Procurement Driven by Purpose’ – and affordability infrastructure.”

Across multiple market cycles during the past two decades, CoreTrust has turned members’ indirect spend into a durable source of value, helping them adapt to secular shifts in cost and supply. Members have real-time access to a curated portfolio of market-validated supplier contracts, SME-led category guidance, and AI-assisted spend intelligence through its CoreTrust Experience Platform (CXP). These long-term, pre-negotiated contracts provide members stable, predictable pricing across 125+ spend categories, including IT, HR, and logistics, even as costs fluctuate. With every transaction, CoreTrust’s spend intelligence data compounds into a growing, proprietary asset – one that surfaces savings and opportunities across the network.

Building on twenty years of success, CoreTrust continues to extend its model into large, adjacent markets that remain underserved, including education through BuyQ, international through CoreTrust Europe, state and local governments, and faith-based organizations. CoreTrust is also continuously adding depth in categories where costs are climbing fastest, and where aggregated scale delivers the greatest savings.

For more information on CoreTrust, visit www.coretrustpg.com.

About CoreTrust

CoreTrust is a premier strategic group purchasing organization (GPO) leveraging $7 billion in annual purchasing power to secure price stability and operational leverage on indirect spend for more than 4,000 impact-driven members. CoreTrust provides pre-negotiated contracts and specialized solutions across key enterprise categories, including corporate services, facilities, technology, and logistics, delivering curated supplier solutions and actionable insights to accelerate value realization. Learn more at www.coretrustpg.com.