Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

Competing in today's marketplace means leveraging technology to level the playing field. By taking advantage of Visual Search,  predictive analytics  , multi channel communication,  mobile technology and social media you can make your company a leader in sales, service and leave your competition in the dust.  With our latest release of the RemoteNet Web Platform , The Systems House, Inc. delivers on these key technology elements offering both a standalone Ecommerce solution or a fully integrated ERP solution with the RemoteNet Web Platform.  Take a quick tour of RemoteNet online at www.medicaldistributionsoftware.com   or view the long list of enhancements below that will keep your company at the cutting edge of emerging technologies.  Updated Search Engine Blindingly fast response times with multiple keyword search Visual auto complete with images Top selling items automatically added to search Options for Grid View, List View, and Detailed item View...

The Bullwhip Effect and Your Supply Chain If you own a business, then you might be aware of the  bullwhip effect , Sorry no Indiana Jones involved here. The Bullwhip effect is is an important  supply chain  phenomenon first noted by MIT systems scientist Jay Forrester. Even if you have never heard of this effect, perhaps you are familiar with the  beer distribution game , which is an experiment designed to show the dynamics of  managing a supply chain . If you are not please click on the links to learn more.  To put the bullwhip effect in simple terms, in looking at businesses further back in the supply chain, inventory swings in larger and larger "waves" in response to customer demand (the handle of the whip), with the largest "wave" of the whip hitting the supplier of raw materials. What causes the bullwhip effect? There are numerous reasons cited for this phenomenon. First of all, there are the more obvious operational factors, some of which you have pro...

Planning your future in an online world There is an increasing amount of technology available in the marketplace today, especially when it comes to business as an example with e-commerce, there are more and more technologies that we can plug into or add on to our current software solutions. The landscape of technology continues to increase in complexity. This complexity makes it more difficult for organizations to navigate the choices they should make and the plans that they should put in place to evolve with their own strategies. Today it is really not about how big or how small you are,  it is really about how fast you can go. I think that is a big shift with respect to technology today. The projects can’t take a long time anymore or they are going to be too slow for the marketplace. There is an increasing pressure to move fast and to be agile in order to adapt to all the changing trends that are happening. I think that when distributors stop to think about how they would transfo...

The 7 Deadly Sins of Marketing Automation Marketing automation sounds great,  offering the potential to create a powerful marketing engine that drives activity through the sales funnel -- turning leads into prospects, prospects into sales and sales into customers.  But there is often a large gap between this potential and reality. Many companies implement marketing automation platforms only to find that they haven't delivered the results they had hoped for -- winding up with nothing more than an expensive email service provider. Below are seven critical areas commonly responsible for the failure of marketing automation initiatives to reach their full potential: 1. Insufficient Knowledge of Your Audience The value of a marketing automation system is in its ability to help you engage your prospects in targeted content journeys that will lead them to become customers. In order to do this effectively, you'll need to identify the content and messaging that will resonate with your a...