Aligning the supply chain with non-acute care settings

Supply chain leaders have worked tirelessly to optimize processes and improve care quality and costs. By extending these enhanced processes and advanced technologies into the non-acute space, health systems can see many of the same benefits in those facilities.

Couple this with a holistic approach to supply chain management—across the continuum of care—and you get the visibility needed for:

• A more effective and efficient P2P process
• More standardization over product selection
• A better understanding of costs
• Greater, more positive clinical impacts

Plus, any efficiencies and savings you achieve can help fund future investments and care delivery expansions.

We recognize that starting this initiative can be challenging. Your health system can start here to help ensure success:

• Get your hospital supply chain in order. Digitize and automate all processes to boost efficiencies, reduce costs, enable data-informed decisions and increase supply chain accuracy.
• Automate the last mile of P2P. Invoice and payment processes remain largely manual. This is costly—you spend money each time an invoice or payment is touched. Extend capabilities more easily into non-acute settings by implementing solutions that automate the full P2P process.
• Move to the cloud. Implement a cloud-based ERP system for scalability and standardization. This helps assimilate non-acute supply chain processes and data into a single platform for greater efficiency.
• Optimize your data. Data discrepancies at the source negatively impact the associated systems and processes. Take steps to cleanse and optimize your product data and implement processes for continuous updates.
• Safeguard facility access. Provide greater facility security by screening individuals for necessary documentation, vaccinations, etc.

The best (and only) way to reduce non-acute care supply chain complexities and costs is to control them. But you can’t do this without visibility.

When it comes down to it, data drives supply chain decisions—and results. Having advanced analytics for forecasting, demand planning and other countless initiatives can improve care quality while lowering costs.

With GHX, health systems like yours can leverage platforms and solutions that help you manage your entire P2P process in a standard way—and continuously improve item data to avoid missing savings and revenue opportunities. Overall, we can help you take a strategic approach to build a resilient, clinically integrated supply chain.