Consulting for multi site DSO’s
Consulting Services for Dental Service Organizations (DSOs)
At Dentstock, we understand the unique challenges faced by Dental Service Organisations (DSOs) in today’s competitive landscape. Our comprehensive consulting services are designed to help you strategize, consolidate, and achieve significant savings on your supply expenditures. With a structured, risk-free approach, we ensure that you only pay when you see results.
Our Two-Phase Consulting Process
Phase 1
Distributor Request for Proposals (RFPs)
In this initial phase, we work closely with you to identify the best distributors for your needs. Our thorough RFP process involves:
Analyzing Past Orders:
Selecting Optimal Partners:
Phase 2
Consolidation
Reducing Complexity:
Maximising Efficiency:
Consulting Services Offered
Formulary Creation and Consolidation:
Procurement Software Implementation
Performance Tracking
Ad Hoc Special Projects
Strategic Supply Cost Control for DSO Organisation
A growing DSO organisation faces increasing pressure to control supply costs while maintaining consistent clinical standards across multiple locations. Dentstock supports this challenge by helping DSOs reduce dental supply spend through group purchasing and procurement support that scales as the organisation grows.
By utlilising your full pruchasing power and structuring your procurement across sites, Dentstock enables a DSO organisation to access improved pricing that individual practices cannot achieve alone. This approach allows leadership teams to benefit from stronger supplier terms without changing the products clinicians already trust. Clear pricing agreements across sites reduce fragmented buying behaviour and ensure purchasing decisions consistently support overall cost-saving objectives.
Rather than asking practices to shop around, Dentstock negotiates pricing upfront so DSOs can rely on agreed supplier terms with confidence. This simplifies procurement decisions across locations and helps ensure that all sites benefit equally from collective purchasing power.
Consistent Procurement Support Across Multiple Locations
As a DSO organisation expands, maintaining consistency in procurement becomes more complex. Dentstock provides procurement support that helps organisations buy more efficiently without adding operational burden to local teams. Guidance is focused on supplier choice, pricing clarity, and avoiding hidden costs that can erode margins over time.
Through access to stronger negotiated pricing and a unified ordering environment, DSOs gain visibility into purchasing activity without adding to their team’s workload or admin . Leadership teams can see how purchasing aligns with agreed supplier pricing, helping them keep savings on track while allowing practices to order the products they already use.
Many DSOs achieve sustainable cost reductions by maintaining access to dental supplies in the UK through stronger commercial terms and standardisation. This approach ensures clinical standards are maintained while supporting predictable spending as the organisation continues to grow.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Dentstock Bring to DSO’s ?
A Dental Service Organisation (DSO) exists to take operational pressure off clinical teams. In reality, procurement often becomes one of the biggest hidden problems DSOs carry.
As groups scale, purchasing fragments. The same products are bought at different prices across sites. Supplier numbers grow unchecked. Ordering becomes inconsistent, time-heavy and hard to control. Spend visibility disappears just when leadership needs it most.
At Dentstock, we provide consulting services. Seeking our advice helps DSOs determine the right suppliers, benefit from better pricing through negotiation and tackle complexity by purchasing consolidated products from multiple sites. We follow a dual-phased approach, where we identify the right distributors to cater to your needs and leverage your combined purchasing power to imrpvoe costs without compromising on your clinical choice and its quality.
Does partnering with Dentstock create additional tasks for my team?
It’s actually the opposite. DSOs benefit from reduced administrative tasks by seeking the assistance of Dentstock. From procurement strategy to software to place orders on and fewer supplier interactions, we perform everything to save teams precious time.
What role does Dentstock play in keeping dental supplies within budget for UK dental groups and DSOs?
Dentstock acts as a procurement partner for UK dental practices and Dental Service Organisations (DSOs), helping them control the cost of dental supplies without restricting clinical choice.
We improve how dental supplies are sourced in the UK by centralising purchasing, negotiating pricing with suppliers, and removing price variation across sites. This gives DSOs clearer visibility over spend, stronger buying power, and far greater budget predictability.
Through Dentstock’s procurement system, practices order dental supplies and more at pre-negotiated rates, manage suppliers in one place, and reduce unnecessary duplication and overspend. The result is tighter cost control, less administrative burden, and procurement that scales as groups grow.
Can DSOs make significant savings on dental supplies by taking the help of Dentstock?
Of course, DSOs can save money. When they partner with Dentstock, we act on their behalf and leverage the collective purchasing power of multi-site organisations for price negotiation. Our practices include examining past purchasing data, selecting optimal partners and consolidating formularies to lower administrative overhead whilst keeping your dental supplies in the UK within budget. Frequently finding savings of 15-25% from current spend.
Is it necessary to abandon current suppliers to unlock benefits at Dentstock?
Of course not. DSOs can always continue to partner with your existing suppliers. We work to align within your current focuses but can also help you evaluate the true costs of your current supplier.. Under our guidance, we uncover hidden value from your current suppliers while benefiting from better payment term and more efficient operations.
What Our Practices Are Saying About Us
Ordering used to take up a lot of my time. I would have 3-4 different tabs open at all times, individually comparing prices and availability for everything we needed. It was a job I never really looked forward to.
Lucy O’Donnell
Before working with Dentstock, our purchasing was very time consuming. I was ordering from multiple suppliers and spending a lot of time comparing prices myself.
Daniela Bartic
We have been working with Dentstock since they started, and what we have found is that not only has our ordering gone down in price, but it’s also become more efficient.
Dr. Sam Jewthwa
What I liked about Dentstock was that you took my order history for the last three months, from all the different suppliers, looked at each item and showed me what I would have paid for the exact same orders with yourselves.
Dr. Yusuf Alshafi
Working with Dentstock has been super; it’s streamlined our ordering process and saved us both time and money. Between clinical supplies and card fees we’re saving over £10,530 a year, a huge difference for the practice.
Dr. Jennifer Bianchi
We’ve had a considerable amount of savings from Dentstock and using a platform, it’s easy to use and tracks and monitors all of our spend.