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Procure to Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning, Community Connections, Population/Community Health

Supply Chain’s Role in Social Responsibility, Community Health, and Sustainability

Social responsibility is an emerging area of importance for all health care supply chain professionals to understand and participate in. This webinar examines the evolving needs of communities, the historic role of hospitals as a community enterprise, and why hospitals and health systems are viewed by the public as an anchor of local life.

Best Practices for Operating at the Intersection of Cost, Quality and Outcomes

Capital Equipment, Products and Services Contracting, Purchased Services

Cost Savings Through Spend Control: The General Contract Policy

Uncontrolled and unchanneled spend through purchase order requests, P-Card use, or petty cash pose a major problem. In this webinar, we show how to limit contractual authority for the procurement of goods, services, and capital within your organization through the development of a General Contract policy that controls and channels almost every purchase through the purchasing department.

Analytics & Research, Financial Management, Logistics

Cracking the Bullwhip - See How Demand Variation Affects the Supply Chain

Increased demand can lead to reactive replenishment but triggers be identified and assessed before rushing to order. Take control of your inventory through proactive demand pattern identification to address issues and changes before they arise. In this webinar, experts discuss the data needed to predict usage patterns and trends, as well as best practices to improve inventory for high value and commodity products.

Analytics & Research, Benchmarking, Products and Services Contracting, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Value Analysis

Hospital Collaboration Pays Off Even for Implants

Yankee Alliance facilitated an Orthopedic Total Joint Collaborative in order to identify opportunities for quality improvement and cost reduction, resulting in documented savings of over $8M. In this webinar, the collaborative approach is reviewed as well as the methods deployed to achieve savings, including implant and reimbursement benchmarking, contract strategies, and perioperative supplies utilizing data analysis.

Change Management, Career/Professional Development

Creating a Culture of Teamwork: Managing Up for Highly Reliable Team Players

The engagement and alignment of employees accelerates achievement of quality, safety, service and operational goals. These tasks are easily stated but challenging to execute. Discover what leaders must do to create true employee collaboration through "managing up".

Analytics & Research, Distribution, Financial Management, Strategic Planning

Managing Supply Chain in Health Care Reform

This webinar discusses the health care supply chain, its strengths and weaknesses. It reviews best practices around the industry, including what Intermountain Healthcare has done with building its own logistics/distribution functionality. It will also present the implications of the future of the industry with the changing horizon that comes with the Affordable Care Act, including preparing to serve non-acute operations.

Change Management, Cost Management, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Leveraging Technology

Optimizing your Technology for Revenue Cycle Success: Implementing a New Technology – Part 1

In this three-part series, Lisa Tonkinson and Chris Wiekert discuss how the Revenue Cycle can impact your supply chain when embarking on a new software implementation or integration and what you need to know to plan ahead and optimize your technology effectively. Part one discusses the ins and outs of implementing new technology.

Presented by: Lisa Tonkinson, Principle, Patient Craft and Chris Wiekert, Senior Product Manager, Infor

Capital Equipment, Procure to Pay, Suppliers, Value Analysis

Reduce Costs through Strategic Collaboration with Suppliers

Although suppliers and providers may hesitate at a partnership approach, it is possible to collaborate on total cost of ownership. Learn from the diverse experiences of expert providers and suppliers in the field as they identify the variables that make a successful partnership, where pitfalls can happen, and steps to overcome challenges.

Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing, Leadership

Supplier Diversity: A Strategic Value Proposition

This webinar explains how supplier diversity can be a valuable investment toward sustainability. Presenters define supplier diversity and the associated specific designations and discuss the evolution of supplier diversity. Get a glimpse into how to build a business case for supplier diversity including the scope and benefits (CQO and Sustainability) for the supplier and purchaser, as well as the importance of executive support.