Learn how top-performing pharmacies are cutting costs, managing shortages and improving efficiency with smarter purchasing strategies.
This white paper shares new insights from the 2025 Smarter Purchasing Report, featuring real-world pharmacy data and strategies that led to over $255 million in savings. With drug shortages, price fluctuations and staffing challenges on the rise, smarter purchasing has become critical for pharmacy success.
Pharmacies often focus on the Top 200 drugs but that’s no longer enough. This report explores how pharmacies that look beyond the Top 200 achieve deeper savings, uncover bulk discounts and stay stocked during shortages. It also highlights key challenges like vendor substitutions, reorder inefficiencies, incorrect GPO pricing and invoice mismatches that impact cost of goods sold (COGS) and operational efficiency.
SureCost’s unified platform empowers pharmacies to tackle these challenges head-on. By consolidating purchasing, monitoring compliance and validating invoices in one system, teams spend less time on manual tasks and more time on patient care. Whether you’re navigating the Inflation Reduction Act’s impact on drug pricing or addressing staff burnout, smarter purchasing helps you stay ahead.
Benefits users will gain after reading this content:
- Identify new opportunities to reduce pharmacy COGS
- Gain insight into purchasing beyond the Top 200 drugs
- Mitigate drug shortages with proactive vendor strategies
- Detect costly vendor substitutions and reorder trends
- Ensure GPO pricing compliance and invoice accuracy
- Automate manual purchasing and inventory tasks
- Improve financial performance
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