Supply Chain Management>>

Efficiently manage inventory, purchasing and vendor management

Access to the right supplies when and where they are needed is essential to safe, high-quality healthcare. ePartnersMD Supply Chain Management enables healthcare organizations to reduce costs by efficiently managing their entire supply chain.  Through requisition management, efficient procurement, fulfillment processes, consumption tracking and essential reporting tools, ePartnersMD can enable you to cut down on materials costs and ensure that supplies are on-hand where needed.

Requisitions Management

With web-based requisitioning you can ensure your team will be able to update and secure the items they need quickly and easily. Get approvals for purchases prior to procurement according to user defined rules, specified by you. Web-based requisitioning allows users to procure items directly from suppliers and send these to centralized purchasing for bulk procurement. Sophisticated workflows automatically route materials requests to sites with sufficient inventory or to purchasing for procurement.

Procurement

Ensure smooth procurement procedures with streamlined and controlled procurement processes. PO preview allows busy purchasing departments to consolidate and centralize vendor purchases. Quickly and efficiently, replenish inventory sites to PAR levels over as many items as needed.  Transmit hundreds of PO confirmations at the click of a button at the end of a busy purchasing day. Define items as either stock or non-stock to improve inventory turnover as well as minimize expiration and spoilage amounts. 

Fulfillment

Handheld use and bar coding practices are two of the fastest growing areas in healthcare materials and supply chain management. With full integrations to the leading industry handheld and label print providers, ePartnersMD brings these important functional areas to you. Powerful tree-based PO receiving allows for the receipt of many POs in one shipment, with just a few clicks. Let the system automatically print Picking Slips to route goods to their eventual storage location(s) or consumption destinations.

Consumption Tracking

Managing inventory consumption at busy patient sites can be a challenge for healthcare providers. ePartnersMD provides you with the flexibility to transfer items to inventory sites for later consumption and expense recognition or recognize these expenses immediately when transferred from Central Stores.  Track inventory consumption by departmental item use or usage to the patient level.  Equipment, owned or rented, can be monitored to its exact location, length of stay with a particular patient for billing purposes and be tracked back to staging areas for cleaning, recalibration, inspection and re-deployment.

Reporting

With most materials managers relying on robust reporting tools, this element of any healthcare supply chain solution cannot be underestimated. With formalized reporting available in addition to quick snap-shot inquiries, you can keep track of past item usage, patient charge control and forecast future materials demands. Web-based charge analytics are also available to enable easy access for employees working remotely or at various offices and locations.