Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

H.R 3204 has passed and the coming changes will affect for your company.  Join us for a brief webinar , where we will take you through some of the  highlights  of the bill,  the coming affect on the Healthcare Supply Chain, and some innovative software solutions to help you navigate the regulatory maze. This legislation would strengthen the prescription drug supply chain in order to protect American families against counterfeit drugs. The bill also would help prevent increases in drug prices, avoid additional drug shortages, and eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of duplicative government red tape on American businesses that is harming job growth. "H ouse Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI)  " Click here for an overview : http://energycommerce.house.gov/fact-sheet/hr-3204-drug-quality-and-security-act or for the full text:  http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr3204/text Follow the  life cycle  of a controll...

Just a friendly reminder , 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.  So you go to the store and how many of us have heard that phrase from our kids? You buy the product and it sits on the shelf and no one ever uses it.  Well at home it's only our budgets that get affected but as a distributor every time a salesman or an inventory manager tells you "We need it!!" , its costing you money..  One Solution to the problem.. . Come to our user meeting and learn how to find those items and clean them up using our Inventory Analysis Tools.    Inventory Management – This session will explore the expanded purchasing capabilities incorporated into MDS. The objective is to identify the ve...

MDS Offers additional credit card integration platforms As a result of long-standing litigation against the cards brands, merchants are now permitted to charge customers a surcharge for paying with a credit card. Ten states still prohibit surcharging, and surcharges are still not allowed on signature and pin debit transactions.  Your business can charge customers a credit card fee, but there's a maze of rules, exceptions and even state laws to navigate to ensure you stay compliant with the terms of your merchant processing agreement. OK so i lied... you got me, but like it or not many customers are demanding to use their cards more and more often, One approach is to find the best deal and stick with that processor,  By adding the flexibility to allow you to connect to multiple processing gateways for each company in the MDS system you now have the leverage to negotiate with your bank and payment processor.  While it's not the best solution, we can offe...