Articles
Products and Services Contracting, Procure to Pay, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement
A Question of Ownership Aligning Processes Between Accounts Payable and Supply Chain
By AHRMM
In many organizations, the relationship between supply chain and accounts payable is strained due to lack of clarity and ownership. This webinar discusses ways to form a collaborative, streamlined, and process-driven approach to reconciling purchase order errors, facilitating purchase order matching, and creating positive outcomes for departments and vendors.
Change Management, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Building Trust and Collaboration Between Providers and Suppliers
By AHRMM
In this session, Dennis Black and Dennis Orthman share their experiences and best practices to improve and expand the provider-supplier relationship.
Career/Professional Development
CMRP: What I’ve Gained. What You Can Gain – Part 2
By AHRMM
AHRMM members discuss why they chose to earn their Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) Certification and the rewards they have gained personally and professionally.
Cost Management, Strategic Planning, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement
Day in the Life of CQO: Examples from the Field
By AHRMM
A panel of health care industry leaders shares their insights and experiences in creating a best-practice supply chain that supports the intersection of cost, quality, and outcomes within their institutions.
Procurement, Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Inventory Management, Lean/Six Sigma
How Inventory Redesign Strengthens the Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
By AHRMM
Developing a clinically integrated supply chain can lead to organizational savings, a decrease in ordering of supplies outside of the supply chain, and can help return nurses and other clinical professionals back to their primary focus of patient care. This webinar explores what is needed for the successful development and implementation of a clinically integrated team that performs value analysis across a variety of facilities under one system.
Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Financial Management, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Product Disruptions Are Impacting My Business Continuity
By AHRMM
Business continuity ensures that an organization can continue to operate in the event of a serious incident or disaster and encompasses strategic planning and preparation. In this webinar, a provider, a supplier, and a distributor discuss their roles and how they work together to develop and implement product continuity plans for a disaster or emergency.
Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Reimbursement
The Value Cycle
By AHRMM
In order to compare baseline costs to savings and determine areas of compliance risk, supply chain professionals need to work closely with their revenue cycle colleagues maintaining the chargemaster. This webinar explores how supply data elements in your item master and chargemaster play a role in negotiating payments, in disbursing across the continuum of care, and in assessing variations in clinical practice.
Suppliers, Cost Management, Procurement
Webcast: What Hospitals Use as a Basis for Decision Making
Brent Petty, executive industry consultant, Healthcare Lexmark International, discusses what forces are currently affecting health care and the platform hospitals use for decision-making criteria.
Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Advancing Supplier Relationships: A CQO Imperative
By AHRMM
This webinar takes a deep look at industries that have evolved successful and meaningful supplier relationships to advance shared value among a network of suppliers. We will examine the Honda/Toyota experience of working among their suppliers and discuss key tools of collaboration, including barriers and partnership takeaways based on current provider supplier relationships.
Change Management, Suppliers, Career/Professional Development
Webcast: Building Trust: 10 Commandments of a Trusting Relationship
By AHRMM
The intersection of CQO is patient care, Deborah Rey presents ten commandments you should adopt if they're not already part of your values both professionally and personally.