Supply Chain Management Services for the Health Provider Industry

Health providers have a significant opportunity to improve and sustain operating performance by addressing their supply chains in a holistic manner. The traditional non-labor supply chain represents 40 percent of the typical hospital system's total operating expenses, with roughly 25 percent of supply chain expenses related to administration, overhead, logistics, ineffectiveness and inefficiency.

The supply chain is a critical process that can and must evolve. Health organizations need a supply chain strategy that identifies processes to be improved, the architecture for technologies and data, and competencies for their people. We believe that one size doesn't fit all. Depending on their situation and objectives, health organizations can adopt different types of supply chains.

Accenture has created a tailored program for members of The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM). Through our Supply Chain Academy, AHRMM members have access to award-winning online education. Read more about Accenture's Supply Chain Academy Solution.

Accenture's approach is designed to deliver high performance throughout your supply chain by enhancing collaboration, connecting processes across your organization and extending them to your partners, independent of specific procurement, distribution or outsourcing arrangements.

We can help you reduce the variability in your supply chain to improve your patient outcomes and therefore their satisfaction. And we can integrate your supply chain systems with your revenue cycle to help you capture charges.

Accenture can help hospitals succeed across all aspects of the supply chain:

• Education: Through our Supply Chain Academy, AHRMM members have access to award-winning online education. Read more about Accenture's Supply Chain Academy Solution.
  
  
• Assessment: We focus on clinical and non-clinical departments across the organization to identify opportunities in key product streams including operating rooms, cath labs, cardiology, nursing/commodities and purchased services such as dietary, housekeeping and equipment maintenance. We establish a value of opportunity portfolio and prioritize key areas for operational improvement to provide you with a road map for implementation.
  
  
• Contract optimization: We help providers implement a combination of national, regional and local contracts that help you understand when to use group purchasing organizations and when to contract on their own to drive the most value. The process entails a holistic approach across the entire organization with a specific emphasis on clinician involvement. We can deliver quantifiable, measurable savings that improve performance.
  
  
• Logistics: We help organizations evaluate their internal and external management flows. We examine the entire supply chain process, all the way from replenishment to internal charge capture.
  
  
• Supply chain enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation: Enterprise solutions integrated with the supply chain allows for greater magnitude of savings (stronger financial controls, reporting, etc.) as well as the ability to maintain savings over the long term. Accenture helps to define your processes, supply chain infrastructure and future vision. We offer a structured implementation approach, with experienced supply chain and enterprise solution resources who understand leading practice supply chain processes, and the impact of a chosen ERP package on these processes. We help you manage the risk associated with successful implementation.
  
  
• Content management: This is integral to data integrity and daily management of your supply chain, allowing visibility into management of product sourcing and utilization. Accenture provides leadership and team members to cleanse, aggregate and append attributes to enrich your item and master files (vendor, item and charge description), and deliver a comprehensive item master to the production environment.