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Leading Practices and Tools
Through the course of HSRC-ASU research, we have identified leading practices for health care supply chain management. Key leading practices are listed here. Out of this work we have formulated leading practices into industry tools.
Leading Practices
Physician Preference Item Management-2008
- Employment of PPIM team members who can utilize strong relationship building skills obtained from prior employment as supplier representatives to better engage physicians in the PPIM process.
- Utilization of suppliers in the hospital to promote on contract product usage by physicians.
- Internalization of supply chain management, group purchasing, and performance consulting functions by the hospital system.
- Employment of strategic sourcing managers and specialists with advanced business backgrounds within the hospital supply chain management team.
- Development of internal information by the hospital supply chain management team on products and supplier companies which "counter-details" supplier provided information.
- Development of "crosswalks" by strategic sourcing managers whereby analyst data is used to develop constructs for internal use that compare different supplier prices for clinically similar items.
- Use of scenario-based sourcing whereby suppliers are provided with scenarios for contracting which allows them to weigh the benefits of standardization based vs. choice based sourcing strategies.
Tools
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