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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.
Savings Beyond Price -Weekly E-Zine- January 25, 2007
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
Greetings!
How Going GREEN Now Makes Good Sense And Can Save Big Dollars For You!
It used to be that being eco-friendly was just for tree huggers, but now being socially responsible actually will help your healthcare organization’s bottom line in three different ways:
1. Reducing the thousands of disposables (replacing them with reusables or reposables) that you are buying -- by 25% -- will dramatically reduce your cost of acquisition and waste disposal cost.
2. Reprocessing every product that you can – Pulse oximeter sensors to sharps containers -- will save you 50% on your purchase price. Plus -- eliminate tons of disposable products from your medical waste stream.
3. Recycling the metals and plastics from your medical devices (spinal bits, blades and burrs, suture, etc.) that are rapidly filling our landfills will guarantee that you meet the EPA requirements and do away with fines.
With this said, Supply Chain Professionals are the gatekeepers for almost all healthy environmental decisions for their healthcare organizations. Therefore, it’s your job to seek out socially responsible products and services that will not only be safe, cost effective, but eco-friendly.
Your Partner in Supply Chain Savings,
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
P.S. If you are looking to fast track your savings opportunities for next year as opposed to trying to reinvent the savings wheel, why not take advantage of our F*R*E*E Supply Chain Savings Scorecard to help you identify where and how much savings you still can attain in your supply chain?
5 Little Known Secrets For Managing Multiple Value Analysis Projects, Objectives And Deadlines!
“How To Survive And Thrive In A High-Demanding Job”
One of the most powerful skills you can master is how to handle multiple priorities, identify and cut time-wasting activities, organize for efficiency, juggle people, paper and priorities while keeping your quality high while your productivity goes up.
As you know you and I are constantly facing too many deadlines and too many projects all of which need to be completed yesterday. Then a crisis comes about and our priorities change and we scramble to get everything done. That’s the life of a supply chain professional in today’s fast paced and unpredictable world and a consultant’s life too.
As a consultant I have survived and have thrived by managing multiple projects, objectives and deadlines everyday since it’s been my life’s work for 27 years. So I thought I would share with you my 5 little known secrets for managing multiple projects, objectives and deadlines you can put to work right away:
1. Planning Will Set You Free To Do More
We all hate the planning process, since it takes time out of our already “super” busy workday. Nonetheless, planning time isn’t a waste of time; on the contrary it’s the only way to save time when managing multiple projects. By taking time to organize your projects, set deadlines, assign staff to the project and agree on a course of action you have set in motion a process to avoid costly missteps, mistakes and blunders that will cost you even more time in the long run.
2. Getting Organized and Staying Organized
Now that you have a plan you need to get organized by selecting a team leader to execute your plan. Then stay organized by having daily, weekly, bi-monthly or monthly project meetings to review and update your plan.
3. Manage Your Multiple VA Projects With Ease
The effortless way I have found to manage multiple projects with ease is with project management software (you might want to check out our ValueNetCentral software designed for this purpose). It enables me and my staff to review the status of all of our client projects at one time then make midcourse corrections when necessary to keep us on track, on budget and on time.
4. Handling Competing Priorities
There are two ways of handling competing priorities (meaning the competing projects either need to be completed at the same time or are of equal importance): (a) negotiate with your management to change the due dates of your competing projects, or (b) obtain approval to add more resources (or overtime) from your management to complete both projects at the same time. There is no third option for handling competing priorities that I know of that won’t have an undesirable effect on your day to day operations.
5. Automate, Automate, Automate
We have found that the fastest, easiest and most effective way to handle the hundreds of details we all face managing multiple projects is to automate every aspect of our projects (surveys, databases, project status reports, training, dash-boards, etc.). This then frees us to do the hard work of the projects and not be bogged down by the details of each and every project.
If you want to be powerfully productive every single day, you need to master these and other skills so that the management of multiple projects, objectives and deadlines doesn’t get lost in the shuffle. This way you too can survive and thrive in a high-demanding job called supply chain management.
Highly Recommended…
If you would like to know ALL of the powerful strategies, tactics and techniques of supply chain project management (not just three), I suggest that you buy my Strategic Value Analysis® E-Book to learn how SVAH’s award winning Team-Based Project Management™ Model can revolutionize how you manage your cost and quality projects.
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