Avendra, a procurement services company in the hospitality industrynwith more than $2 billion in purchasing volume, signed OB Sports Golf Management of Scottsdale, Ariz., as its newest customer. OB Sports Golf Management, a professional golf course management, development and consultation company with 27 locations, will be leveraging Avendra’s key purchasing programs including food & beverage, golf pro shop, rooms operations, engineering, administrative, spa supplies, and technology and telecommunications.
“We were very impressed with their unique ‘Discovery’ process,” said Orrin D. Vincent, founder and c.e.o. at OB Sports. “They sent a team to a handful of our properties around the country to evaluate our entire procurement process, at the property level as well as the corporate level, to better understand our needs. Through this process, they were able to design a procurement program that fit our needs, one that will provide savings and supply chain efficiencies both of which are critical in today’s highly competitive market.”