Supply Chain Management

Because as much as 45% of a hospital’s total operating expenses can go to supplies, drugs and consumables, it is critical to implement effective hospital supply chain management solutions that help you better manage processes and supply selection and use throughout the supply chain.

Only McKesson offers a comprehensive, consolidated approach to resource management that allows you to correlate your financial and clinical outcomes, to understand your true profitability and patient success. Our offering integrates traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications—financials, materials, HR/Payroll—with other mission-critical areas such as scheduling, point of use, surgical services and enterprise wide analytics. You’ll improve the day-to-day operational needs of your individual departments, while also gaining enterprise-wide efficiencies and information.

McKesson’s hospital supply chain management solutions streamline workflow and improve performance management, significantly reducing operating expenses through increased product standardization, more informed purchasing, tighter inventory management and an organization-wide view of your total supply spend. Armed with this critical information, materials managers can maximize contract and rebate attainment, conduct enterprise wide business modeling and work hand-in-hand with physicians to uncover further standardization opportunities.

Our hospital supply chain management solutions help you improve patient outcomes by ensuring continuity in care. They ensure the right products get delivered at the right time and for the right price. And they help maximize your service lines by improving charge capture and helping you determine profitability and outcomes by individual service line.

Benefits

• Improved decision-making
• Enhanced workflow within departments and throughout the enterprise
• Lower inventories and reduced stock-outs
• Reduced off-contract and off-catalog purchases
• Improved contract compliance
• Reduced write-offs
• Increased standardization
• Enhanced performance improvement efforts

Features

• Accommodates varying hospital supply chain management methodologies (including requisition, point of use, case carts, perpetual inventory, par level, stockless and consignment)
• Provides critical data on resource utilization, clinical outcomes and financial performance—by patient/procedure/physician
• Offers seamless information flow from the OR into your MMIS
• Gives physicians in-depth cost and efficacy data
• Provides each off-site location with its own receiving and requisitioning capabilities
• Supply Tracking provides updated supply location status within a healthcare system