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Gas was $3.66/gallon last year. It's $4.52 now. If your team negotiated it down to $3.95, is that a "savings" — or does ...
09/01/2026

Gas was $3.66/gallon last year. It's $4.52 now. If your team negotiated it down to $3.95, is that a "savings" — or does it not count because the price is still higher than last year?

In an environment of tariff shocks, freight volatility, and sticky services inflation, cost avoidance — stopping price increases before they land — can matter as much as a clean savings win. Savings is winning a negotiation. Avoidance is changing the terms so you don't have to keep winning the same one.

In his latest blog, Michael Braunschweiger, LogicSource Chief Client Value Officer, breaks down why CFOs need to value avoidance alongside savings — and why the companies that don't will keep discovering what they should have prevented.

🔗 Read the blog: https://logicsource.com/procurement-cost-savings-vs-cost-avoidance-ebitda-protection?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46266&utm_content=LSI-MI-3PA-ProcurementCostSavingsVSCostAvoidance
🔗 See how LogicSource drives sustainable EBITDA improvement: https://logicsource.com/services/

For much of this year, the expectation was simple: as supply chains stabilized, cost pressure would ease with them. That...
08/27/2026

For much of this year, the expectation was simple: as supply chains stabilized, cost pressure would ease with them. That's not what we're seeing.

Construction input costs are still up 7.1% year over year. Far East ocean rates remain more than 230% above February levels. Health benefit costs are climbing past $18,500 per employee. Availability has improved — but availability was never the only driver of cost.

What's emerging instead is fragmentation: pressure that no longer moves in one direction but builds unevenly across categories, each shaped by its own regulatory, labor, or capacity dynamics. That makes blanket cost strategies less effective and category-level visibility more essential than ever.

Our Q3 Sourcing Trends report breaks down where that pressure is building, with strategies from 200+ category experts and $200B+ in pricing data to help leaders stay ahead of it.

🔗 Download the report: https://logicsource.com/lp/sourcing-trends-q3-2026-indirect-spend-procurement-trends-report/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46261&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-SourcingTrendsQ3
https://logicsource.com/lp/sourcing-trends-q3-2026-indirect-spend-procurement-trends-report/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46261&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-SourcingTrendsQ3
🔀 More quarterly sourcing analysis in our Report Library: https://logicsource.com/logicsource-analysis-sourcing-trends-reports/

In most large health systems, non-clinical spend has no single owner.IT sits with one team. Marketing with another. Faci...
08/26/2026

In most large health systems, non-clinical spend has no single owner.

IT sits with one team. Marketing with another. Facilities, staffing, and professional services, each negotiated on its own. The result is fragmented leverage and contracts that rarely get benchmarked against the broader market.

WellSpan Health, a 250-location system across Pennsylvania and Maryland, decided to change that. Working with LogicSource, it treated more than $300 million in non-clinical spend as one opportunity instead of a set of separate administrative tasks.

Cross-industry benchmarks replaced healthcare-only comparisons. Embedded experts ran the negotiations and RFPs. Department leaders kept control of their vendor decisions.

Year one: $7 million in savings.
By year three: over $35 million annualized, reinvested where it matters most.

🔗 Read the full whitepaper: https://logicsource.com/lp/wellspan-health-procurement-transformation-and-cost-savings-in-healthcare?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46260&utm_content=LSI-HI-CS-HealthProcurementTransformation
🔗 See how we can do the same for your health system: https://logicsource.com/healthcare/

Supply pressure is easing. That doesn't mean cost pressure is.Even where availability has improved, supplier concentrati...
08/21/2026

Supply pressure is easing. That doesn't mean cost pressure is.

Even where availability has improved, supplier concentration, new regulations, and fast-moving AI adoption are creating risk that varies category by category. For CFOs and CPOs, that means balancing near-term savings against supplier continuity and data control — while fuel, tariffs, and capacity keep total costs unpredictable across logistics, print, and packaging.

Our Q3 Sourcing Trends report breaks down the market dynamics across the indirect categories we manage, with actionable strategies drawn from 200+ category experts and $200B+ in pricing data to help protect margins and profitability.

🔗 Download the latest report: https://logicsource.com/lp/sourcing-trends-q3-2026-indirect-spend-procurement-trends-report/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46255&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-SourcingTrendsQ3

We're honored to share that LogicSource has been named to Inc. Magazine's 2026 list of America's fastest-growing private...
08/19/2026

We're honored to share that LogicSource has been named to Inc. Magazine's 2026 list of America's fastest-growing private companies for the fifth consecutive year.

The credit belongs to our clients. Being trusted to manage their indirect spend, and to keep delivering on it, is what puts a company on a list like this. Thank you to the finance and procurement leaders who rely on us, and to the people at LogicSource who deliver for them, day in and day out.

🔗 Read more about the award here: https://logicsource.com/logicsource-inc-5000-fifth-consecutive-year
🔗 See the full Inc. 5000 list here: https://www.inc.com/inc5000/2026

When's the last time your benefits program went through a competitive RFP?If the honest answer is "not recently" — you'r...
08/13/2026

When's the last time your benefits program went through a competitive RFP?

If the honest answer is "not recently" — you're not alone. But with Medical & Rx costs up ~52% since 2015, and premiums rising 6–10%+ annually, the cost of staying on autopilot keeps compounding.

Brokers are essential for benefits expertise. But procurement brings something different: independent market discipline, broader supplier options, and pressure on fees and rebates that a broker-only model can't always provide.

Our latest whitepaper breaks down why benefits planning needs to be procurement-enabled and how organizations are capturing 2–10% in annual expense reduction, without sacrificing employee experience.

🔗 Download the whitepaper: https://logicsource.com/lp/procurement-planning-in-employee-health-benefits-planning-process/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46247&utm_content=LSI-MI-WP-ProcurementPlanningEmployeeHealthBenefits
🔗 See how our proven approach can unlock savings in your organization: https://logicsource.com/services/

Most health systems apply real supply chain discipline to clinical spend. Non-clinical categories tend to get far less a...
08/06/2026

Most health systems apply real supply chain discipline to clinical spend. Non-clinical categories tend to get far less attention, even though they can reach roughly 20% of revenue.

Software licensing sits with IT. Agency contracts sit with marketing. Staffing agreements sit with HR. Each is negotiated in isolation and measured against a healthcare-only frame of reference, which quietly caps how much value the benchmark can reveal.

WellSpan Health took a more deliberate approach. Working with LogicSource, they began evaluating non-clinical categories against retail, finance, and manufacturing standards rather than hospital peer data alone, then built an embedded partnership model to act on what that data showed. The result was more than $35M in annual savings within three years, with no impact on clinical care.

Chris Maher, Managing Partner at LogicSource, breaks down how the model worked in The Journal of Healthcare Contracting.

🔗 Read the full article: https://logicsource.com/healthcare-supply-chain-cost-reduction-wellspan-health/

🔗 Explore how our healthcare practice drives margin improvement: https://logicsource.com/healthcare/

Say you're planning a big trip. Do you use AI to lock in the flights, hotels, and reservations before you leave — or jus...
08/04/2026

Say you're planning a big trip. Do you use AI to lock in the flights, hotels, and reservations before you leave — or just pull it out at each stop to sort things as you go?

Obvious. You want the plan set before departure.

Most companies are doing the opposite with procurement AI. They've aimed it downstream — invoice matching, PO processing, payment workflows. Useful work, but it only speeds up decisions already made. By the time spend reaches that layer, pricing, scope, and terms are locked.

The leverage is upstream, at source-to-contract, where supplier economics are shaped, and commercial risk is negotiated. Or as Jo puts it: AI downstream optimizes the mechanics; AI upstream improves the economics.

In his latest blog, Seed, LogicSource Chief Strategy Officer, makes the CFO case for starting upstream.

🔗 Read the blog: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LEKuCmjvmAyZXGQzirwcpy8K_u3e_3EVMQdMxNX3ba4/edit?tab=t.0 =h.nybn6yyi234u

🔗 See how LogicSource drives sustainable EBITDA improvement: https://logicsource.com/services/

A vendor contract sits in negotiation for six months. A capital request cycles through committee after committee. Everyo...
07/30/2026

A vendor contract sits in negotiation for six months. A capital request cycles through committee after committee. Everyone knows the decision needs to be made — and still it waits.

LogicSource advisor Mark Van Sumeren calls this the absence of a forcing function: governance that was never built to bring a decision to a close. His argument is that the delay isn't a failure of leadership — it's a failure of structure, and it quietly consumes the capacity health systems can least afford to lose.

Nowhere is that more measurable than in non-clinical spend. Contracts left open, suppliers never sequenced, categories no one owns — this is where the missing forcing function shows up directly on the P&L.

In his latest article for The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, Mark Van Sumeren makes the case for governance that makes time visible and accountability unavoidable.

🔗 Read the full article: https://logicsource.com/importance-of-governance-framework-in-healthcare-system-leadership/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46233&utm_content=LSI-HI-3PA-GovernanceFrameworkinHealthcareSystemLeadership
🔗 See how our healthcare practice brings that discipline to non-clinical spend: https://logicsource.com/healthcare/

Cost savings can be easy to find. Making them last is harder — and that's where most indirect spend optimization program...
07/20/2026

Cost savings can be easy to find. Making them last is harder — and that's where most indirect spend optimization programs fall short.

Over the span of our engagement with McGraw Hill, the partnership turned a cost-visibility initiative into an embedded governance model — giving leadership enterprise-wide visibility, bringing procurement into decisions earlier, and building discipline that outlasted the original scope.

Our latest whitepaper breaks down the full engagement and lessons that transfer to any organization managing indirect spend.

🔗 Download the whitepaper: https://logicsource.com/lp/mcgraw-hill-procurement-cost-optimization-operating-discipline/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46223&utm_content=LSI-MI-WP-McGrawHillProcurementCostOptimization
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