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That Value Analysis Was Developed Back In the 1940's After World War II as a Way to Find Lower Cost but Higher Quality Alternative products and methods. This was Due to the Lack of Material Resources At The End of The War.
Savings Beyond Price -Weekly E-Zine- October 11, 2006
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Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
Greetings!
Are You Leading Your Supply Chain Organization In the Right Direction?
I’m finding that most supply chain organizations are doing the same things, the same way and at the same pace that they have done them for the last 5, 7 and even 12 years. In fact, too many hospitals, systems and IDNs are doing too many things in a hard, tedious and arduous way!
Isn’t it time to make your job easier, effortless and more productive?
This can only be accomplished by investing quality time in planning,forecasting, reinventing and retooling what you have been doing by developing a new strategic direction for your supply chain program. I call this planning process a Strategic Supply Chain Operational Plan that will give you a targeted blueprint for supply chain management success.
If you think your healthcare organization can’t dramatically improve what you have been doing, you are dead wrong! At this moment, your organization has many weak and substandard methods and practices that can be tweaked, reworked and reorganized to significantly improve and advance your supply chain operations to the next level of performance.
If you don’t believe me just ask your boss, customers, vendors, peers and GPOs if they think you are leading your organization in the right strategic direction. Their answers might shock you into doing something to change your strategic direction because the times are changing and you should be changing too!
Your Partner in Supply Chain Savings,
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
P.S. Want to test your supply chain management maturity? I have posted 10 questions on my Savings Beyond Price Blog that you can quickly search under the keyword “maturity” to measure if your supply chain management is going in the right strategic direction.
Successful Supply Value Analysis Programs Continue To Evolve, Not Stagnate!
“Value Analysis Evolution: New Ideas, New Processes, and Opportunities For Growth In Savings And Quality Performance”
Healthcare organizations that continue to be successful with their supply value analysis programs refuse to let it stagnate, decline or stand still. They continue to innovate with new ideas, new processes, and opportunities for growth to advance their savings and quality performance.
For example, most supply value analysis teams that we have established, trained and facilitated have continued to enhance and add to their programs these new elements:
- Have annual retreats for their value analysis teams to refresh, re-energize or recalibrate their mission, vision, goals and objectives
- Utilize dashboards to quickly uncover new savings opportunities, show their results and hold their gains
- Employ the tenets of LEAN and Six Sigma to reinvigorate their value methodology
- Have a technology value analysis team to manage and control their capital equipment expenditures.
- Vigorously benchmark their supply chain spend to identify utilization misalignments
- Expand their program’s scope to cover any and all supplies and purchase services that their organization purchases
By adding best practices like these (and others from all industries) to your supply value analysis program, your supply chain savings and quality improvements will continue to expand, grow and mature to a level that you never dreamed possible.
So if you are looking for long-term success with your supply value analysis program, you too need to continue to have your methods and practices change, progress and evolve every week, every month and every year to keep your value analysis teams at peak performance.
DID YOU KNOW…
That innovation can be a repeatable sustainable and measurable process, not just something that happens by chance, happenstance or accident.
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