How to Increase your Health System’s Spend Visibility (Spend Visibility Part 3)
To truly reap the benefits of spend data, health systems must take action to clean and structure all procure to pay (P2P) data. Follow the steps outlined below to gain true visibility at your hospital. [blockquote author=”” link=”” target=”_blank”] Read Parts One and Two of our spend visibility series now to discover the benefits […]
Is your Health System Achieving Clear Spend Visibility? (Spend Visibility Part 2)
Insight into spend visibility is essential for decision-making within finance and supply chain in health systems. Clear spend visibility provides information for leaders to make supply decisions, evaluate their procure to pay processes and gain insight into usage and product waste. The benefits of spend visibility are endless, but health systems and hospitals struggling to […]
Why Health System P2P Leaders Need Spend Visibility (Spend Visibility Part 1)
How much can finance and supply chain leaders gain from spend visibility benefits? The answer is almost endless, but it comes down to better decision-making. When data, especially dark data, takes on the form of graphs and diagrams, leaders obtain insights rather than simply numbers filled in columns and rows. Suddenly it turns into potential […]
How to Map your Health System’s Procure to Pay Processes
Health systems lose millions each year due to process inefficiencies and errors throughout the procure to pay (P2P) process. Most of these lost funds are preventable, but teams are content, in a state of denial, or misunderstand the process. To bring awareness and begin to prevent leaking dollars, begin by creating a procure to pay […]
Why your Health System Needs a Contract Repository
Thousands of suppliers are actively utilized in every health system often managed by a limited amount of staff. That’s why organizations must create a centralized contract repository in order to properly manage their contracts and set their Supply Chain up for automation and success. What is a contract repository? A contract repository is simply a […]
5 Areas for Health Systems to Implement Supply Chain Automation
To keep up with the changing world and future world events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems must adopt leading supply chain automation. Automation can ease workflows, bring insight into current operations, create resiliency, and future-proof healthcare’s supply chain. Automate Supply Chain Data Infrastructure Data is dispersed between several different supply chain systems including […]
Navigating the Complexities of Your Health System’s Pharmaceutical Procurement
The Challenges of Pharmaceutical Procurement Managing the pharmaceutical procurement process for a large health system is a complex and grueling process. Why? Because it is commonplace for these organizations to purchase from multiple manufacturers and distributors – resulting in excess of 100 accounts. With so many pharmaceutical accounts to manage, it becomes difficult to know […]