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On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl discusses why you need to employ scientific management to uncover hidden supply chain expense savings – beyond price and standardization: “Supply chain expense optimization is the action of making the best and most effective use of supply cost expense management strategies, tactics, and techniques,…

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl why Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight: “A Strategic Purchased Service Plan has many similarities to a strategic planning process in that it is a systematic and defined planning process. Thus, this enables a healthcare organization to appraise the strengths, weaknesses, threats,…

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl argues why no stone should be left unturned with your value analysis program in meeting your goal of generating a bottom line for your system and no commodity group should be excluded from your value analysis agenda: “One of the missteps we observe with…

In the June 2023 AHRMM Power Up Podcast, Mike Schiller and Justin Poulin highlight trends, strategies and solutions from the field to advance the health care supply chain. In this episode, we delve into the issue of human trafficking and how it can be addressed in the healthcare supply chain. We also provide a preview…

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl discusses why wrong data isn’t the end of the conversation: “There is no doubt about it, statistics, benchmarks, and analytics can be off base or even completely wrong, but from our experience they can easily be revised with new information, a few minutes of…

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // Are your clinical teams utilizing the right product at the right cost, or are they using products that may have extra, but unnecessary features? With the constant challenges of supply disruptions, is it possible that the healthcare care supply chain teams may have actually over standardized products,…

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // What happens when “Fighting Dirty” meets supply chain? Can data from Sterile Processing Departments (SPD) be used to help supply chain be more effective and help reduce risks AND costs? What role does social media and digital networking play in the healthcare supply chain? Join this week’s…

This is the first in a series of AHRMM Power Up Podcasts with Mike Schiller and hosted by Justin Poulin, featured on the Power Supply podcast network. In this first episode we discussed: • High level Strategy – SCRC • Member Engagement – YPAC • On The Fringe Category – Vacutainer Tubes Tune in every…

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // What if 60-80 percent of items on your surgical preference cards were not actually needed? How much time does staff waste pulling supplies for cases that aren’t used, let alone the time it takes to return all these items back to the shelf? Can preference card optimization…