Materials Resource Management
Recent Service Engagements
Significant cost savings or waste can be experienced by healthcare organizations depending on how well the processes surrounding materials, purchased services, and other supply chain management are defined and optimized. The right balance of efficiency, customer service, and adherence to best practices must be sustained to achieve the benefits available. Purchasing arrangements, product acquisition practices, preference lists, transportation and storage, receiving and storeroom management, PAR levels, application of technology, etc., to name a few areas of opportunity, if not controlled and managed properly will have a tremendous effect on profitability and customer satisfaction. Both physicians and company management must be equally involved and committed to improve practices if the advantages are to be realized.
- Contract Negotiation
- Distribution & Warehouse Management
- EDI/Internet Purchasing Systems
- GPO Benchmarking
- Hospital Logistics Operations
- Inventory Management
- JIT/Stockless Programs
- Materials Management Strategic Planning
- Outsourcing Options
- Resource Allocation Management
- Supply Chain Assessments
- Supply Chain Redesign
- Supplier-Provider Management
- Vendor Product Selection Processes
Recent Service Engagements
- Conversion from traditional materials management model to a JIT/Stockless program for a major teaching hospital.
- Planned, developed, coordinated and implemented the consolidation of logistics functions into a single integrated support operation for several multi-hospital systems.
- Established regional materials management service organizations to support a group of hospitals within a specific geographic area.
- Developed an integrated healthcare delivery system to improve supply chain management practices achieving substantial savings.
- Negotiated contracts for multiple-facility hospitals including major supplier corporate partnerships, capital purchases, ancillary agreements, and other clinical services.
- Developed and coordinated multi-disciplinary corporate-wide efforts including value added teams, product standardization teams, and other initiatives to standardize goods and services, leverage system purchasing volumes and contractual commitments, reduce expenses and gain efficiencies.
- Negotiated and led the implementation of a risk-sharing agreement with a prime distributor, reducing annual surgical supply expense by $300,000.
- Developed a stockless replenishment program netting over $2.3 million in savings over a four (4) year period.
- Developed a risk-sharing agreement with a national supplier of therapy beds that reduced utilization and cost per day by over $400,000 annually.
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