Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

  The most terrifying words in the English language are:  I'm from the government and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan See below for the OpEd portion of our blog this week.. But I did want to point out to all of you selling drugs to pharmacies and dispensers that although they now have until  2023.  to comply with the DSCSA Serialization Initiative, It's already law for distributors so you had better get with the program.  Need help?  The MDS-Nx System is fully compliant and allows you to track and trace any product drugs , food etc. Now we return to your regular programming.  This a repost from Susan DeVore  on WSJ.  http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/tag/susan-devore/ It’s no secret that health care today is fragmented, with each provider in the system implementing its own individualized care processes, protocols and operations. Because each provider operates independently, there is incredible variation across the system, which leads to unn...

  Give your customers flexible billing options and build customer loyalty. Customers often require multiple different and sometime complicated billing options. To make sure they stay your customers and you don't have to spend hours creating customized billing reports and remembering to run the invoicing process at a specific time, the  MDS  systems offers a number of options to simplify your customer's requests.  And easily manage the process ensuring you get paid in a timely fashion as well as keep your customers happy.  Differentiate your company in the marketplace by giving customers what they want, with little or no work on your companies part. Invoicing Options Include:  Monthly/Periodic billing - Create invoices per transaction but hold until a period statement is sent to a customer common options are monthly or bi-monthly. Consolidated A/R - Create a single invoice to "roll-up" all transactions for a period , also offer options to...

As the holidays roll around and we plan for next year, one often overlooked area is our overstock or items that just are not selling. For whatever reason it's likely a good time to see what you can put on "special" for that End of Year sales push and or just to make some space in your warehouse.  One Solution to the problem.. . Using your Software Systems analytics tools to find those items and get rid of them.    Inventory Management – Explore the expanded purchasing capabilities incorporated into MDS. The objective is to identify the vendors and products in need of replenishment. The Inventory Management module attempts to minimize inventory investment while reducing stock outs and backorders. The MDS Inventory Management System gives you the Inventory Analysis Tools to identify items that can be eliminated from inventory.   "The analysis identifies all stock items that are contributing less than 1%, or 5%, or whatever level you select of the sales.  You could...

  Yes, data volumes are growing, but online backup doesn’t need to be a headache.  After Natural Disasters such as Hurricane Sandy and others , TSH invested heavily in cloud infrastructure and solutions to simplify and protect our  cloud customer data. To that end we setup hourly snapshots, a 30 day retention policy and a 7 year (minimum) data backup with monthly and Annual Full images.  Today we are ready to offer this service to for a low fixed monthly fee.  The TSH Cloud customers already enjoy this capability for the MDS Data , but we are now able to offer it for on-premise customers running windows/Linux or any platform , as well as specific PC's and or Servers.  Or for TSH Cloud Customers who are looking to backup internal data and don't have a simple cloud based solution in place.  Alternately if you just don't know what to do for backups, we are now offering this service for any readers of our Email.   Simplify your approach with the ...

  Multicarrier shipping solutions changed very little for many years, but the explosion in ecommerce shipping has led to some very interesting new features and functions to support new features in shipping..TSH is proud to announce our partnership with Desktop Shipper  to help companies make informed decisions about shipping packages.  The Standout capabilities with the ability to integrate Multiple marketplaces, Multiple shipping carriers and Multiple Data Streams. All with a single web based intuitive interface made desktop shipper the clear choice for our partnership.  Existing Customers can seamlessly transition from our multi carrier shipping interface to desktop shipper with little or no downtime. And setup with desktop shipper is quick and easy so you can get shipping with the ability to rate shop individual packages, entire customers or prebuild rules with the MDS shipping module.  Have an extended carrier network:   When you build more relationship...

  JOIN US ONLINE NDC Online Exhibition RESERVE YOUR MEETING TIME TODAY Register Now   NOT ATTENDING THE SHOW?  Contact Us  As we start to emerge from the pandemic and see light at the end of the tunnel, companies are realizing that working from home (WFH) didn’t kill productivity after all.  In fact, employees are more resilient and engaged than ever. Instead of going MIA as some employers feared, employees crushed it.  Eighty three percent of employers say the shift to remote work has been successful for their company, compared to just 73% in June of 2020.   Now that hybrid or fully remote work is a part of our business infrastructure moving forward, companies need to make sure they are helping employees rather than hindering them. And since finding a job close to home (or even in the same state) is no longer a parameter for many job seekers, it’s game on for companies who want to find and keep top talent.  Turns out,  technology plays a maj...

Part IV in our seemingly never ending series...  This week some ideas on what makes your company different , is it a software toolset? who knows - read on to keep growing your business.  Hat tip to  Compliance Expert Health Wruble for the excellent content. Happy Friday..  Thinking Strawberries in the 21st Century -Heath Wruble As a C-level consultant and business owner, I was recently reminded of a public speaking course I took back in graduate school. One of our professors, Michael LLorenz was tasked with getting us prepared to make solid presentations in the real world. His public speaking course was essential for his students and one of the most important and practical courses we have taken. His wisdom helps his students to this day forge ahead in the business world and most of his students still keep in touch with him, which shows the impact he has had and still has on his students. Professor LLorenz would assign each of us a famous speech, have us read the spee...