PEOPLE & OPINIONS
tion from a virtual or brick-and-mortar warehouse.
• Utilize the GPOs extensive cost and purchasing data, enabling the member facilitates to more effi ciently manage their product mix and purchasing.
• Bring new software/platform solutions to member facilities to improve effi ciency and communication, enabling waste reduction and cost recovery.
• GPOs understand scalable purchasing solutions.
• Utilize data visualization tools and artifi - cial intelligence (AI) to analyze purchasing patterns and to optimize those purchases. (This will require overcoming the data silo barrier listed below.)
• Enable competitive bids on capital equip- ment.
• Identify refurbished or reprocessed assets where appropriate.
• For very high-volume items with pre- dictable purchasing patterns, enter into tailored fulfi llment agreements directly with the manufacturer. This will require a self-distribution platform to realize the effi ciencies.
• Reduce staffi ng by leveraging a shared services model with the supply chain entity and GPO and outsource activities where appropriate
Barriers: • GPOs may have to “get out the way” and modify contracts and partner in new ways to facilitate these new initiatives.
• Data silos make it diffi cult to aggregate and utilize the existing purchasing history; data from member facilities must be available.
• Systems may not be in place to facilitate some of the initiatives mentioned.
• Supplier contracts need to be renegotiated. • Lack of resources to execute this strategy will lead to more outsourcing solutions and partnering.
It is a time of great change in the healthcare supply chain. This is a small subset of some of the ways that healthcare facilities are adapting to declining reimbursements and increasing costs in labor and supply chain. The rate of change is increasing and the sup- ply chain of today will look very different in two to three years. HPN
John Kupice is CEO of H-Source, a company that offers healthcare providers a private marketplace and software platform featur- ing extensive accounting, reporting, and data visu- alization to support supply chain via cost recovery, purchasing strategies, and asset management.
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