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Savings Beyond Price

Strategic Value Analysis in Healthcare's Utilizer Dashboard

 

Did You Know...?

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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You've Heard it All and Seen it All Before...Except for This!

“Now that most hospitals are closing the front door on their price savings,
they are still leaving the back door open on their utilization misalignments
where their greatest savings can be achieved.”

Conventional Supply Chain Strategies Have Reduced Price Savings To Barely 1% to 2%, But Utilization Savings Now Represents over 6% to 10% of NEW Savings From Total Supply Budget!

How Do We Find Where Our Utilization Misalignments Are In Our Supply Chain Which Represent As Much As 6% to 10% of Total Supply Spend? 

You Can Have the Best Prices In Any Product Category But If Your Staff Are Purchasing the Rolls Royce Products Inside Your Best Price Contracts Then Your Overall Cost Will Still Be High!

Well, you can roll the dice and hope you guess right.  Or, you can have a power tool like the Utilizer™ Dashboard that will enable you to quickly, easily and efficiently find ALL of your utilization misalignment savings at one time – every time!  

It’s just that simple, straightforward and clear-cut!  We can make this very bold statement since SVAH has been saving money “beyond price” for healthcare organizations for 21 years now and we have learned a few important lessons along the way.  Here they are:

1.                  Price savings are quickly disappearing from the landscape, but these savings are only the “tip of the iceberg” representing only 1% to 2%  at the most -- for your healthcare organization.

2.                  PPI capitation and construct buying schemas are being (or will shortly be) employed at most healthcare organizations so where is the new savings coming from in this category of purchase?  But you still must manage and monitor the overall costs of the PPI initiatives after the contract is signed.

3.                  Standardization savings is fizzling fast at ALL hospitals, systems and IDNs because your GPO requires that you standardize on your product lines to leverage your buying power with them.   Additionally, we are also seeing where standardization is actually causing supply utilization misalignments and therefore costing you more money than you are saving.

4.                  Custom contracts are still in play for very large healthcare organizations, but this tactic will shrink shortly once these outliners are under contract.  

WHAT’S LEFT TO BE SAVED? Yes, You Guess Right the Biggest Lesson we have Learned in 21 years is: “The only Thing Left in the Vineyard for you to Harvest savings is your utilization misalignments (or the wasteful and inefficiency consumption, Misuse and Misapplication of Your Products, Services and Commodities) That Are Now Ready to Yield High ROI Fruit.” That’s What The Utilizer™ Dashboard is all About; Making the Savings Happen Beyond Price.  

 

Utilizer Allows You to Manage Your Total Cost of Purchase Price, Utilization Misalignments and In-Use Cost

Don’t Spin Your Wheels Chasing Illusive Savings When You Can Have All of the Savings Come to You

Most hospitals, systems and IDNs we talk to have “hit the wall on price savings”, yet they continue to try to grind out a few more dollars every year the hard way, without a compass, blueprint or roadmap to guide them to where their big, robust and super-sized savings reside.   

Why not make your job a whole lot simpler, easier and hassle-free by having all of the savings come to you by employing our Utilizer™ Dashboard to ferret out these hard to find and illusive savings for you in less than 60-days. 

Think of it this way! If you don’t have a utilization management tool to pinpoint, with certainty, where your big, robust and super-sized utilization savings reside, you are missing an extremely important power tool in your toolbox.

When you consider that a hospital, system or IDN can have 8,000 to 48,000 or more products (in 176 categories of purchase) in their MMIS system, where do you get started probing for these hidden savings?

The good news! With our new Utilizer™ Dashboard you will have the exact tool that you have been searching for to quickly uncover all of your utilization misalignments.  That’s our promise to you!

Key Features and Resources Benchmark Services Spend Managers Utilizer Dashboard
Global Hospital Utilization Yes No Yes
Departmental Supply Utilization Yes No Yes
Purchase Service Expense Utilization  No No Yes
Commodity Supply Utilization Service Line Only No Yes
Product Specific Supply Utilization No No Yes
Inventory Utilization Yes No Yes
Best Price Analysis No Yes - Some are GPO Specific Only Yes -  GPO Neutral
Product Standardization Opportunities No Yes Yes
Savings Project Management No No Yes
Supply Savings Knowledge Management and Training No No Value Analysis Leader Web
Hands on Control Over Data No Limited Yes
Fully Customizable and Scalable Limited Limited Yes

 

Utilizer Dashboard Allows You to Focus on the Right Things, with the Right Tool to Achieve the Highest ROIs Possible!

Have Piece of Mind That Your Entire Supply Chain Savings Opportunities Are Visible to You and Under Control!

  • Accelerate Cost Reductions

  • Maximize Cost Avoidance

  • Eliminate ALL Waste and Inefficiency in Your Supply Chain

  • Fuel Your Value Analysis Teams with High ROI Savings Opportunities

  • Immediately Know When Costs (Utilization and Price) Rise in Any Product Category in Your Supply Chain

Have Your Entire Supply Chain's TOTAL COSTS Right At Your Fingertips


SVAH does all the heavy lifting, you view the Robust Savings Results

Robert T. Yokl, President

Realizing that Supply Chain Manager's time is becoming more and more valuable a commodity in this day and age, I wanted to make sure that we created a software program that brings a high ROI with very little work for you the Supply Chain Manager.  When we developed this latest version of the Utilizer Dashboard, I specifically had our staff programmers configure the program for SVAH to carry the heavy work load of setting up and maintaining the Utilizer

With the above in mind, that is exactly how the software works, SVAH does all the heavy lifting while you can your valuable time focusing on the HIGH Return on Investment savings opportunities that the Utilizer Dashboard will reveal to you.  Even though we do all the heavy lifting, you still have full control to make any change to the software's data or configuration, I call this the ultimate in customizability. 

You Have Got to See the Powerful Utlizer Dashboard to Believe How Incredible it Really Is!

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