In-date medication expires on one member’s shelf while the same drug is short at another, a few miles away.
Reverse distribution returns cents on the dollar. Cash sits frozen in inventory that will never sell. Members absorb the loss quietly, and the association watches it happen without a practical way to step in.
A branded marketplace gives you a documented, reviewable way to help members move that stock instead of destroying it.
Sees the write-off
A recurring line item. Capital destroyed quarter after quarter, with no mechanism to recover it.
Sees the waste
In-date medication on its way to the destruction bin while another site runs short on the same SKU.
Sees the risk in every workaround
Every informal transfer carries undocumented risk. The workaround that fixes one problem creates a different one.