Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management is of increasing importance for healthcare organizations wanting to ensure supplies availability while maintaining an appropriate cost structure. Supply chain optimization begins with the statistical assessment of supply demand. The supply chain optimization needs to consider demand volatility, supply lead times and lead time volatility, purchase cost, criticality of availability and the distribution methods to arrive at the best supply chain management model for your organization. In addition to the supply chain management model, the proper charging and relief processes play a critical role in the proper re-imbursement of supplies. Through this approach, clients have saved substantial expenses while simultaneously increasing the supplies availability using our supply chain management optimization techniques.

We can provide you with state-of-the-art supply chain management expertise through our healthcare supply chain management workshop.

If you would prefer to have one of our associates conduct the supply chain management optimization for you, then we can provide one of our supply chain experts to assess and optimize your supply chain.

Our supply chain management workshop contains the following topics that enable your trained associates to conduct the supply chain optimization:

• Supply chain fundamentals
• Hands-on supply chain simulation
• Supply chain physics
  • Little’s law
  • Performance characterization of supply chains in regards to throughput, cycle time, inventory / work in process and variation
• Appropriate action to variation in supply chains
• Demand assessment
• Basic statistics
• Inventory modeling
  • Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
  • Newsboy Model
  • Base Stock Model
  • Q,r Model
  • Profit maximizing models with economic or other constraints
• Stratification techniques and models
• Determination of appropriate management models
  • Manpower allocation
  • Asset allocation
• Supplier Consolidation
• Supplier Management

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