MEMBER BENEFITS Supply Chain Management
Streamline your supply chain, enhance efficiency, and drive significant savings, all while maintaining the highest standards of patient care.
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From onboarding to maintenance, we provide our members with support and cost-savings optimization throughout the GPO contract process.
- Custom Onboarding: Thorough integration into OSHN and Vizient contracts tailored to specific needs.
- Vizient Contract Enrollment: Streamlined enrollment into contracts that best fit your organization.
- Expiring Contracts Maintenance: Proactive management of expiring agreements to ensure continuity and savings.
- Exclusive Local Contracts: Access to OSHN member-only contracts for additional savings.
- Distributor Contract Monitoring: Ensure contract terms are maintained and optimized at key distributors.
- Prime Vendor Relations: Access to top distributors like Medline and Cardinal Pharmacy.
Get access to data that makes decision making easier. National industry benchmarks and regular contract and opportunity reviews means you’ll always get the best possible equipment at a competitive price.
- Price Parity Reviews: Conducted bi-annually to ensure you’re always getting the correct price at all your facility locations.
- Contract Opportunity Reviews: Quarterly assessments to identify new savings and service opportunities.
- Conversion Opportunity Reviews: Detailed analysis of potential conversion savings.
- Product Substitution Recommendations: Identifying cost-effective alternatives without compromising quality.
- Benchmark Reporting: Identifying top opportunities through regular, data-driven reports provided by OSHN and Vizient.
- ECRI Supply Guide Membership. (Premium Members only).
- Bi-Annual Value Reports (Premium Members only): Summarizing key savings and value achieved over six-month periods
We provide several opportunities throughout the year to connect with other medical professionals in structured and unstructured ways. This practice continues to be one of our members’ most valued benefits.
- Bi-Monthly 1:1 Meetings: Personalized touch base sessions to discuss performance, improvements, and updates.
- Quarterly OSHN Supply Chain Member Roundtables: Network with peers, share insights, and learn best practices.
- Peer Connections: Facilitating valuable relationships with industry peers.
- OSHN List-Serv and Member Networking: Access a community of professionals and resources for enhanced collaboration.
- Liaison Support: Acting as your point of contact between Vizient, manufacturers, and distributors to smooth communication and resolve issues.
Get the full picture before you buy. Using our national database, we provide expertise to help you navigate and optimize major and minor capital purchases.
- Custom Benchmarking: Custom Analysis of your capital equipment quote compared to recent similar purchases.
- ECRI Capital Guide Membership (Premium Members only): Access ECRI’s extensive capital purchase benchmarking and purchasing insights.
