We at Cooper Professionals have been hard-at-work implementing our core business strategy- pooling the funds of Independent funeral homes to increase purchasing and contracting power. The support we’ve attracted from folks like you- providers with long-standing ties to their local churches and communities, along with active membership in professional associations- has helped us gain serious traction from major vendors of death-care products & services.
The Commander Initiative gave birth to a viable solution to reduce cost through volume purchases and cooperative networking. In the first year, The Initiative grew into a national network of leading independent funeral homes/funeral service providers performing a combined total of over 18,000 services per year. This network has continued with a commitment to the concept of cooperative buying of essential products & services needed to run our funeral homes. Major supplier and vendors have responded to our initiative. The formulation of our membership/vendor relationship network is proving to be a step in the right direction. We are constantly accepting and reviewing bids offering discounts and other preferred terms in return for our volume purchasing. Partners began purchasing from these pools in the second quarter of 2019 and continue to experience the power of collective spending.
