Healthcare :: Supply Chain Optimization


	Patient Safety		How can your organization look across an entire patient episode of care and view all supplies used to diagnose and treat a patient – including medications, orthopedic implants, and commodity products documented on the patient? How can you track supply usage (i.e., implants) across multiple patients, including ability to identify product recalls and notify specific patients

	Cost Reduction		Are you losing your competitive edge due to lower operating margins? Have you been diagnosed with the "multiple supplier syndrome"? How do you improve price controls? How can you institute accurate rebate programs? How can you reduce fulfillment costs? Are you challenged with managing multiple item master files? Do you know that there is a contract covering each purchase? Are you sure that each purchase is executed against a contract? Can you breakout the cost components of shipping and handling?

	Inventory Management		Do you rely on partners for inventory information such as levels, carrying costs, and demand cycles? Can you accurately forecast departmental and centralized inventory based on patient schedules and consumption? Is all inventory in the organization on a perpetual system?

	Financial Management		Can you track supply expense to the lowest unit level and be able to "drill down" to specific patient and supply item? Are you able to track, through one dashboard, status of active orders, including purchase order number, back order status, EDI status, receipts & shipping notice, invoice match and payment (including check number or EFT status); inventory on hand for various inventory locations across a facility or geography?

	Workflow Management		How do you effectively automate workflow-oriented processes from consumption to invoice matching?

	Change Management		What are the necessary changes that must be in place to ensure the successful fusion of your organization's cultural, process and technology infrastructure?
	The team at GLT can help you, as we have helped some of your peers, respond to these questions by applying an effective supply chain optimization model, resulting in improved patient safety, and optimized supply chain resources including labor, supplies, equipments, and facilities throughout the entire value chain.