central purchasing and referencing
The tailor-made organisation of your bundled supply.
The massification of purchases is a considerable advantage, making it possible to obtain advantageous purchase prices to gain market share or consolidate your commercial margins.
Gouache Avocats assists you in the implementation of purchasing grouping mechanisms, from the choices of organization of the grouping to the purchase (central purchasing or referencing, choice among referencing methods), to the contractual implementation of these choices, in the drafting of contracts between suppliers and customers of the plant, in compliance with distribution and competition law.
Our method allows you to understand the challenges of grouping to purchase and to choose solutions in line with your economic objectives. Your contracts are customized based on the decisions we’ve helped you make.
You benefit from our support of our lawyers’ benchmarks dedicated to distribution and access to best market practices.
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Supplier-Customer Relations
Legal strategy for bundling on purchase
central purchasing or referencing
Should you prefer a model where you buy and resell to your members (central purchasing body) or a model where you negotiate terms of sale with suppliers who will sell directly to your members (referencing body)?
What are the impacts of these choices in terms of economic model, organization, responsibility?
In case of referencing, what legal qualification of the role of the plant and what does this imply for it?
How to increase and secure the revenues of the plant?
central purchasing or referencing
Should you prefer a model where you buy and resell to your members (central purchasing body) or a model where you negotiate terms of sale with suppliers who will sell directly to your members (referencing body)?
What are the impacts of these choices in terms of economic model, organization, responsibility?
In case of referencing, what legal qualification of the role of the plant and what does this imply for it?
How to increase and secure the revenues of the plant?
Supplier-Customer Relations
Drafting of affiliation contracts with the purchasing or referencing centre
You have chosen your procurement centralization organization strategy.
The contracts of affiliation to the plant in accordance with the choice of the legal qualification of the role of the plant (which determines its financing, its responsibility, and therefore its risks, but also its economic model) are to be drafted in a personalized manner to ensure the performance of your model.
You have chosen your procurement centralization organization strategy.
The contracts of affiliation to the plant in accordance with the choice of the legal qualification of the role of the plant (which determines its financing, its responsibility, and therefore its risks, but also its economic model) are to be drafted in a personalized manner to ensure the performance of your model.
Supplier-Customer Relations
Drafting supplier referencing contracts and single agreements
The result of the negotiation with the suppliers is formalized in a framework agreement.
Having a referencing agreement, so as to frame and standardize your modes of relations with your suppliers is essential.
The result of the negotiation with the suppliers is formalized in a framework agreement.
Having a referencing agreement, so as to frame and standardize your modes of relations with your suppliers is essential.