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We all know how many arguments we have lost in the past on our savings proposals and how frustrating it can be when that happens. We also know that we are on the right side of the argument, but we can’t understand why our customers can’t see what is obvious to us. How can we turn this situation around so that we win more arguments than we lose?
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I would like you to look around your healthcare organization and ask yourself “Who’s in charge of your purchase services?” I can assure you, if you are honest with yourself, the answer is – nobody!
The reason for this circumstance is that this function, at most healthcare organizations, has been outsourced to your department heads and managers with disastrous results. We have seen department heads sign purchase service multi-year contracts that have cost their healthcare organization hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, due to benign neglect. -
Most healthcare organizations, in some shape or form, are employing value analysis analytics to uncover their hidden supply chain expense savings. Yet, we have found only a few who are using comparative value analysis analytics to benchmark to identify their utilization misalignments in real-time against their peers
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Are you selecting your value analysis team leaders and members by chance, by their title or by their influence in your organization? If you are, and most hospitals, system and IDNs have been doing this for years, then you are missing an opportunity to have the most motivated, disciplined and creative people on your value analysis teams.
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This podcast is geared towards dispelling what we feel are the 5 Biggest Myths that people believe about healthcare supply chain utilization management. This will help clear up the misconceptions and misunderstandings while allowing you to gain a new level of what Supply Utilization Management means to you and your supply chain. Don't ignore the high value and impact that healthcare supply utilization can make for you.
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As more healthcare organizations prepare for the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act more pressure will be placed upon supply chain professionals to save even more in less time. With this said, we though we would talk about in this podcast the 5-Rock Solid Value Analysis strategies and tactics that we have found can give you a big leap forward in savings. Your Co-hosts for the show are Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO and Robert W. Yokl, VP Operations of Strategic Value Analysis in Healthcare
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In this podcast we show you how cost management yet ever more challenging and sophisticated in many respects does not necessarily need for you to make your job harder. We will show you four strategies to make your cost management job easier while still achieving higher levels of savings in less time with minimal effort.
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Value Analysis Analytics is a new and different strategic approach that helps takes yours hospital expense reduction and value analysis efforts to a whole new level of savings beyond price. The concepts are sound and forward thinking but more importantly they are proven and tested over a 15 year period in development and use at our client hospitals. Learn how these Value Analysis Analytics are revealing savings that organizations never thought possible before.
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In this new year of 2011 Robert T. Yokl, President & Chief Value Strategist and Robert W. Yokl, VP-Operations for SVAH wanted to give you a podcast that will set the stage for what you need to do to truly max out and wring the towel dry on your supply chain savings. We will share with you the necessary strategies and tactics that you will need to employ to take your organization to a whole new level of supply chain savings beyond price and standardization.
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There is Gold in Them Thar Hills--Maximizing Your MMIS Systems for Greater Savings. In this podcast you we will outline the strategy for maximizing your greatest assest in your healthcare supply chain operations which is your Purchasing/Materials Management information System.
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This podcast is taking one of our sayings Purchase Price is Just the Tip of the Iceberg a bit further in detail. We will dispel the popular thought and mindset that Value Analysis is the only tool that you need in order to attack your costs below the waterline. We will give you a more defined examples of how with this below the waterline mindset you can open up a whole new world of savings for your organization that you never imaged was there before.
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There is a critical need for healthcare organizations to realize the value of a new generation of incentive programs that will help you keep your supply chain teams working on all of your special initiatives in order to maintain your bottom line. We can no longer believe that just because we pay managers and staff a salary that we will get 100% effort and participation on the value analysis and other special project teams that the end results are so important to your hospital's bottom line.
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Rising Product Costs Must Be Counter Balanced by Other Savings Strategies. Find out how much more is really there for you to drive out of your supply chain. Learn how to get your organization on-board to making the savings beyond price happen. Learn how to quickly cover your price shortfalls for the short and long term bottom line results. Find out the best bang for the buck strategies that you can employ today to save beyond price.
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80/20 Rule for Healthcare Supply Chain Savings
This podcast is geared towards helping you align your efforts and focus towards the supply chain savings opportunities that will give you the best bang for your buck as far as effort to return on investment. We will highlight the major functions of supply chain savings and detail out all the major supply chain savings areas and why and where you need to focus your efforts for the highest supply chain savings return possible. -
The Supply Chain Hall of Fame is now a Reality!
Today we have a special interview with Jamie Kowalski, president, and Rick Dana Barlow, managing director, Bellwether League, Inc. which is a new organization that has as its mission to recognize the unsung supply chain heroes in our healthcare industry. -
11 Strategies to Save Big in 2008 is a replay of a No Cost Webinar from January 9, 2008. The Webinar really got some great feedback from our registered participants that we thought we would open this one up for everyone to listen to. Hopefully we can help you kick off 2008 with some great strategies for you to use as a guide for making savings happen in the new year.
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In this Podcast we will discuss a daily challenge that Supply Chain Managers and Value Analysis Coordinators face, that is at what point do we or don't we take action on a savings or savings opportunity. Is it a dollar threshold? We will go over all the factors that are involved with deciding when we attack a savings and when we do not. Plus, we will go through a few examples of hospitals and how they go about working with these challenges to achieve maximum results.
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New Rules, Systems and Models for Long Lasting Savings Performance!
Isn’t It About Time You Re-Think, Re-New And Re-Invent Your Value Analysis Model To Do The Hard Work That Is Required In The 21st Century!
It’s been 21 years since value analysis 1.0 emerged as a best practice in healthcare. This stratagem has led the way to some of the most important breakthroughs in supply chain cost management in the last decade. Nevertheless, if you are really honest with yourself, it isn’t getting the job done in the 21st century.
In years past, just putting together a value analysis committee or team(s) assured you of generating a variety of savings (mostly GPO savings) that just happened unimpeded and unrestricted. I hope you have realized by now that the time has passed when you can make these easy and effortless savings continue to flow, surge and gush without changing how your value analysis committee or team(s) is organized, structured, selected, trained, measured, motivated and controlled. - Visa fler
