FMA’s buying group through Prime Advantage gives your company access to pre-negotiated discounts and rebates on over 100 categories of raw materials, goods and services that your business uses everyday. Prime Advantage is the only buying consortium in the industrial manufacturing arena that offers group buying leverage to reduce your costs, the flexibility to use our tools in concert with your current purchasing strategies, and the variety of categories to save across multiple cost centers with quality suppliers.

Buying Leverage: Impact your bottom line directly

• Endorsed suppliers offer discounts on indirect goods and services comparable to those that Fortune 500 companies enjoy - and they treat Prime Advantage Members as a large national customer, with all the corporate level contacts and services that such status brings.
• Endorsed suppliers offer rebates based on group purchasing volume over and above your negotiated pricing. Endorsed suppliers win your business on the quality of their services and the competitiveness of their pricing - Prime Advantage then makes your best deal better with group volume based rebates.

Flexibility: You control your buying decisions

• You know your company's products best - so you choose where Prime Advantage benefits your company most. We have at least two Endorsed suppliers in each category and over 100 categories, giving you maximum flexibility when choosing which Endorsed suppliers to work with.

Variety: Realize cost reductions across multiple cost centers

Get endorsed suppliers cover more than 100 categories of goods and services

• From highly engineered components to commodities used throughout your organization.
• From all types of everyday supplies to special services.
• View our Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers by category.
• Tier 1 Members are subject to a $10,000 one-time initiation fee and have access to Prime Advantage's entire list of suppliers. Tier 2 Members have access to the most popular suppliers in the metal forming and fabricating industry and pay a one-time $1,000 initiation fee.

Quality: Members drive the process

• Endorsed suppliers must be top tier national providers with a proven record of services and competitiveness to become one of two Endorsed suppliers per category.
• Endorsed suppliers and their Prime Advantage programs must be approved by at least two Member-based committees before becoming endorsed.
• Endorsed suppliers are constantly reviewed by executives for their ability to meet Members' demands.

Take advantage of a multitude of additional benefits

• Prime Advantage's semi-annual conferences and committee participation provide cross-industry networking, best practices, and benchmarking opportunities.
• Prime Advantage's Endorsed suppliers all have the national reach to help you consolidate your vendor base regardless of your current geographical or organizational challenges.
• Prime Advantage allows you to consolidate payments to your suppliers and realize process cost savings.

Contact Jill Klug, director of membership, for more information.