Tag: Purchased Services

Setting Expectations for Courier Services Providers

By: Vakhulaa Parthasarathy
Date: April 4, 2019
Category: Supply Chain
Filed under: Courier Services, Freight, Outsourcing, Performance Benchmarks, Purchased Services

Recent mergers and acquisitions have resulted in a complex process of integrating individual care sites into an organization’s central network system. With an emphasis to reduce overhead and operating costs, hospitals should focus on centralizing their freight spend to generate cost savings. Organizations are generally aware of inbound and outbound shipment costs related to courier […]

Tips for Managing Relationships with Suppliers and Service Providers

By: Jake Jenkins
Date: March 27, 2019
Category: Supply Chain
Filed under: compliance, Contracting, Purchased Services, Suppliers, training, Vendor credentialing, Vendor Management

Managing vendor relationships can be challenging for several reasons. The high volume of manufacturers and suppliers hospital supply chains deal with can be daunting. Distributors and purchasing organizations can help make it more manageable, but with thousands upon thousands of SKUs at any given hospital, they cannot cover all of it. On top of that, […]