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That Value Analysis Was Developed Back In the 1940's After World War II as a Way to Find Lower Cost but Higher Quality Alternative products and methods. This was Due to the Lack of Material Resources At The End of The War.

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Savings Beyond Price -Weekly eNewsletter - January 28, 2009

Robert T Yokl - Healthcare Supply Chain Consultant Strategic Value AnalysisRobert T. Yokl

President & Chief Value Strategist

 

 

New Science for Bigger Savings

There is a new science for saving and operational excellence called “value analytics that can squeeze every LAST drop of savings out of your supply chain and make your operations even more efficient and effective than ever before.

At a time when every dollar saved is surely needed to hold back the red ink at your healthcare organization, if you aren’t employing this powerful technique to uncover new savings and leverage operational improvements you are missing out on a powerful transformational tool.

It comes down to this! Most hospitals, systems and IDNs are throwing darts at an elusive and moving target to find their best savings and operational improvements. And with meager results! This is because most healthcare organizations aren’t employing a scientific approach to identify their best opportunities.

That’s where “value analytics” comes into play.  It’s the art and science of measuring trends, patterns, and variations in your supply chain spend and operations in order to quickly identify savings and operational opportunities.

As an example, we recently found that one of our clients was trending unfavorable, by as much a $172,339, in their defibullator expenses. In another study, we found that a client of ours was generating too many purchasing orders for their size organization and therefore needed to reinvent their purchasing operations to reduce their operating cost.

It’s not an accident that we uncovered these anomalies in our clients supply chain operations. It’s because we employed “value analyticsto do the difficult work for us that never would be uncovered by the naked eye or even intuition.

That’s why I call “value analytics”  the science for bigger and better savings and operational excellence. This is where the future of supply chain management is going.  Is this the direction you are going too?

 

Your Partner In Savings Beyond Price™,

Robert T Yokl

Chief Value Strategist

Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare

Bobpres@strategicva.com

1-800-220-4274

P.S. If you would like a reprint of an article I wrote for Hospital Materials Management on “Value Analytics” that explains this new science in detail just e-mail your request (with your fax number) and I will promptly fax it to you. 

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out our new blog “Is Value Analysis a Numbers Game?!” that will help you understand how to turbo-charge your value analysis studies.  

 

 


You’ve got to attack unnecessary spending!

Just the other day, a material manager (MM) told me that she oversees 26,000 products, services and technologies, but has no way of knowing which are out of cost control at any given time.  As a supply chain professional, you know what that’s like.  You must hold your total supply cost to the absolute minimum—and doing this requires vigilance.

There’s no better way to be on the lookout for savings opportunities than with your own supply chain radar! The Utilizer™ Dashboard is exactly that! It will help you detect the waste, inefficiencies, misuse,    misapplication and value mismatches in your supply chain before they inflict serious damage to your bottom line.  Some of these misuses and mismatches are costing your healthcare organization anywhere from four to 11 percent in lost savings opportunities every month, quarter and year you continue to fly blind. 

This savings computes to 1 or 2 million dollars per 100 occupied beds.  So if you have 180-occupied beds, this could mean 1.8 million to 2.8 million going right to your bottom line—which isn’t small change when you consider that your price savings are disappearing every day.

 

Utilizer™ Dashboard is Fast, Easy, Efficient Radar—We Do the Heavy Lifting!

Because supply chain professionals have such limited time, it’s critical that when value analysis tools are employed, they provide a high ROI and require very little time and effort to be deployed by supply chain managers.  To our delight, that’s exactly how our new Utilizer™ works.  We do ALL the heavy lifting, and you reap all the savings. 

 

You Get More with the Utlizer™ Dashboard, Including Training in an

Award-Winning Value Analysis Program

When you use the Utilizer™ Dashboard, you aren’t just getting a software program and a “Best of luck,” from us.  We want you to succeed and see the value in this revolutionary program, so included in your purchase of the Utlizer™ Dashboard is a FREE Advisory Service that guides you through the implementation process to quickly and easily make your savings happen!

As a bonus, we will also train your value analysis team in our award-winning advanced value analysis training     program to smooth the road to change for you.  You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain, so give us a call today and start seeing immediate savings opportunities with the Utilizer™ Dashboard.

 

What People Are Saying about the Utilizer™ Dashboard

 “I thought the Utilizer™ Dashboard would      require more time—that I didn’t have—to manage it.  To my surprise SVAH, as promised, did all the heavy lifting and showed me where my savings were hidden, which actually saved me time. ”

 

“I believe that the Utilizer™ Dashboard is the right product at the right time at the right cost to drive out all of my supply chain waste.”

 

Quickly Schedule Your “Test Drive” Today!

Yes, call me to schedule my “Test Drive” today so I can see for myself the UTILIZER™  Dashboard in action and find out how I can take my supply chain to the next level of savings performance.

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