Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

What is a Virtual Appliance? The first time a housewife learns that a dishwasher can reduce time and stress and easily integrates soap, detergent, and water with a cleaning and drying mechanism she really gets the concept of using appliances to do your daily chores.  So what does this have to do with supply chain software you say? Well it's simple really... The MDS System is now available as a virtual appliance, you will see lots more information on the specifics in the coming weeks.  And we will be announcing availability on the competing platforms: Vmware IBM Pure Amazon EC2 HyperV  Xen VirtualBox KVM But in it simplest form, it turns the complexity and hard work often associated with installing a server , setting up a database and configuring Enterprise Resource planning software into a quick and easy operation.  Benefits of Virtual Appliances Q: What benefits do virtual appliances offer over traditional software? A: Traditional software as sol...

  Greenville Health System named   Healthcare Purchasing News   2013 Supply Chain Management Department of the Year. Click here for the Full Article The Systems house, Inc. congratulates GHS on this prestigious award, and is proud to provide and maintain the systems that drive supply chain excellence.  The GHS Supply Chain’s crown jewel is clearly the 125,000-square-foot Materials Distribution GHS Materials Specialist picks supplies  using Pick-to-Light technology  Center (MDC), which is staffed by more than 84 full-time employees, and fortified with a fleet of automated guided vehicles (AGV), carousels and conveyor belts, linked electronically through an enterprise-resource planning system from The Systems House.  The MDS Healthcare Suite is the perfect solution for a variety of healthcare supply chain models.  GHS utilizes the MDS warehouse management system with: Low-unit of measure replenishment Pick to light technology Tote Scanning and Sort...

Use your vendor partners to get your fill rates where they need to be  An ever elusive goal is the perfect order, 100% fulfillment and no backorders, but the reality of today's business is that heavy inventory investment is no longer a possibility.  You can just keep everything in stock any more. To help you compete in the fast paced "JIT"- Just in Time , or Next Day Shipping environments, MDS now offers a Next Day Vendor module. Rather then try to figure out usage patterns and forecast demand etc..  You can now pass those headaches to your vendors and make the process transparent to your customers.  Many distributors already do this and we have already discussed our special Tie to sales order PO logic - which allows you to take a sales order and have it create a special po to ship and match to the sales order, - well with the next day vendor logic , any Item flagged as next day vendor is treated as in stock and will go on a building order for that vendor.  The ...

Our Annual MDS User Group Meeting will be held on Monday, October 21, 2013. Please Contact mlv@tshinc.com  for registration details and Hotel  Arrangements.  If you would like to arrange a private meeting for October 22 nd   during your visit you can register and request a meeting on your form.  MDS User Group Meeting 2013     MDS Enhancements (including the status of last year’s requests), training on various aspects of the MDS system, and customer Q&A with an opportunity for users to share their experiences, needs, and wants with MDS/TSH during our Round Table wrap-up session. In addition, TSH personnel will be available for one on one meetings on both Monday afternoon as well as on Tuesday.  The one on one meetings will be scheduled for 30 minutes.  If you require more time, please advise us ahead of time. The centerpiece of this year’s meeting will be the release of our new version of WinMDS, featuring a completely updated a...

MDS-Nx  –  Cleaner, Easier and Faster access to your MDS system. MDS Quick Lookups - Real-Time Pricing, Inventory, and Customer Sales History with a simple mouseover.  Tabbed Lookups Include: Products Customers Vendors Sales History Including Real-Time Inventory with both onhand and available to sell , Pricing specific to a customer , Contract Pricing and Rebate information with Acquisition Cost Basis. And the ability to setup custom filters and columns by operator logon.  Click Above for a video on MDS Quick Lookups For more information on TSH or MDS call The Systems House, Inc. at 1-800- MDS-5556. Or send a message to  sales@tshinc.com Click here  and tell us how we can help you with your business solutions.

To build repeat customers, be consistent. “Don’t be a stranger now.” You’ve surely heard that expression, a most hospitable one If a customer comes back to your business, chances are pretty good that they liked what they saw the first time around.  On the surface, a solid base of repeat customers might seem little more than a matter of providing excellent service or products. True, but excellence cannot be a hit or miss proposition—repeat customers return because their experience is consistently solid. By definition, a repeat customer is someone you get to know. Nurture that by keeping your relationship as personal as possible. TSH is proud to welcome back Chuck Graham , an industry veteran who has joined up with US Medsource LLC.  and has purchased his second MDS System. This brings Chuck into an Elite but not small group of TSH clients who have purchased multiple systems while working at different companies.  "Connecting on a personal level with customers is one of the...