Podcasts by Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices Podcast
A Podcast for healthcare supply chain managers, value analysis professional and anyone who manages a supply budget or cost management initiatives in a healthcare organization today.
Robert T. Yokl, President & Chief Value Strategist will share (with special guests) his over 35 years of healthcare supply chain operation, consulting and training in the latest strategies in Cost Management, Cost Avoidance and Reducing Overall Supply Chain Spend While Dramatically Improving Quality and Customer Satisfaction in the Process.
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Podcast 85 - When is the Right Time to Evaluate a Major Product or Service Category from 2023-11-28T21:41:04
Timing is everything and it does apply to the cost/value/quality world in our healthcare supply chain. In a perfect world, you would want to take the time and have your value analysis teams review ...
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Podcast 84 - 4 Major Dynamics of Advanced Cost Optimization from 2023-10-19T13:24:01
Cost optimization is the art and science of saving money for our healthcare organizations and, at one time, used to be fairly easy by just implementing that right group purchasing contract and garn...
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Podcast 83 - 4 Ways to Leverage Savings Validation for Maximum Results from 2023-09-15T14:40:34
What is the point of signing a new or renewal contract with the goal of saving money if the savings do not materialize as planned? That’s what Listen
Podcast 82 - Supercharging Your Non-Salary Savings with Advanced Clinical Value Analysis Analytics from 2023-08-25T18:02:25
This podcast was a conversation with Rob Corley, Chief Growth Officer, from Impensa Advisors. Rob has previo...
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Podcast 81 - 4 of the Most Important Elements to Saving Big in Healthcare Value Analysis from 2023-07-31T13:53:32
Everyone has a degree of experience in cost management, personal and business-wise, which we bring to the table in our value analysis meetings. There is also common sense that can guide us as well,...
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Podcast 80 - Big Savings in Retrospective Value Analysis Reviews from 2023-06-01T18:09:12
We are in tough budgetary times right now with regards to expense reduction at just about every health system in the country. Increased labor costs, supply chain issues, pricing increases, and infl...
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Podcast 79 - Winning with a Clinically Integrated Value Analysis Process from 2023-05-15T11:46:10
With Suzanne Smith, Solutions Advisor, Lumere—a GHX Company, and Kerry Lepage, Clinical Nurse Leader and Director of Surgical Services at Maine Health. Suzanne and Kerry discuss how they got into h...
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Podcast 78 - 3 Tips About Value Analysis Committees Vs. VA Teams You Can’t Afford To Miss from 2023-03-17T12:29:35
We continue to see value analysis professionals working through a value analysis committee structure on new and renewal GPO contracts, new product requests, recalls, etc., even if they call them va...
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Podcast 77 - Starting Your Own Clinical Supply Utilization Management Program from 2023-02-23T13:27:35
I recently had a sales call with a hospital Director who was interested in starting a Clinical Supply Utilization Management (CSUM) program at his hospital. His reasons were that they had been doin...
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Podcast 76 - It's 2023: How Do You Make Your Clinical Value Analysis Program Even Better? from 2023-02-06T15:47:10
As we begin a new year, it is good to take a step back and take a good look in the mirror at your value analysis and cost management programs. These are especially important right now in these toug...
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Podcast 75 - 6 Unwanted Things that Happen When the Products, Services, and Technologies You Buy Are Put into the Hands of Your Customers from 2022-12-22T16:04:06
Too often when a product, service, or technology is purchased, it is considered a completed transaction by your contract managers once they have obtained the best price, and then it is quickly forg...
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Podcast 74 - The Next Big Wave to Major Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Success from 2022-11-22T20:05:25
Everyone is back in saving money mode in a big way, but many of the streams of savings have fallen off or fizzled out altogether. That does not mean that there are not major savings still left in t...
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Podcast 73 - 5 Strategies for Big Healthcare Supply Chain Savings from 2022-10-13T15:59:55
I don’t think I need to tell you that the effects of the double whammy of the pandemic and inflation (8.5% as I write this article) is eating into your healthcare organization’s margins. That’s why...
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Podcast 72 - How Utilization Reporting Helps You Pick Up Savings Opportunities Including Price from 2022-08-30T18:33:22
Price is a very simple element of the healthcare supply chain procurement process. You order the product at that price and get the total spend for that line-item product. This is the total spend th...
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Podcast 71 - Healthcare Value Analysis Software Mistakes That Can Be Costly from 2022-07-29T17:06:52
Now that the value analysis community has embraced value analysis software (VAS) as a best practice, more hospitals, systems, and IDNs are acquiring this easy to master technology. However, for tho...
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Podcast 70 - 3 Powerful Strategies for Dealing With Your Healthcare Organization’s Rising Supply Chain Costs from 2022-06-29T14:05:24
I don’t need to remind you that the cost of just about everything you buy is increasing due to supply chain shortages, higher labor cost, and surging energy prices, which all contribute to the high...
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Podcast 69 - Healthcare Value Analysis: Steps for Achieving Better Results from 2022-06-15T13:50:48
There are many different iterations that value analysis has morphed, evolved, and emerged into leading up to 2022. Value analysis is predominantly applied to products, services, and technologies in...
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Podcast 68 - What Is A KPI And How Can It Help Improve My Supply Chain Department’s Performance? from 2022-05-19T11:29:24
We are often asked how a healthcare supply chain organization can get better than just good. Our answer is always to employ KPIs (or key performance indicators) to quantify and measure your supply ...
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Podcast 67 - How Value Analysis Software Makes Your Job Easier from 2022-04-14T12:58:53
Value analysis software is here to stay in the healthcare supply chain and there are good reasons why. Those who employ value analysis software at their hospital, system, or IDN know that it easily...
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Podcast 66 - Integrating Utilization Management Into Your Hospital's Value Analysis Program from 2022-04-01T16:59
We recently conducted a webinar for our value analysis/supply chain community on the benefits of integrating supply utilization management (SUM) into their value analysis program because we believe...
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Podcast 65 - Clinical Integration for Your Value Analysis Program and Supply Chain from 2022-03-10T16:02:38
With the new term “Clinical Integration in Supply Chain” that has been embraced by many health systems throughout the country, there seems to be a little confusion regarding the actionable steps wi...
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Podcast 64 - Is It Time to Get Back to Saving Money? from 2022-02-07T13:41:18
We are all in a new world of mitigation, PPE, social distancing, etc., that has been a laser focus for over two years now. The goal was to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and prevent t...
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Podcast 63 - The Worst Number in the Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Game is One from 2022-01-10T16:45:31
The number one strategy for saving money in the healthcare supply chain is by saving on price. When you look at contracting and strategic sourcing, it’s all about price. Standardization is a functi...
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Podcast 62 - 5 Tips On Establishing Your Own Hospital Supply Utilization Management Program from 2021-10-22T17:52:28
As hospitals, systems, and IDNs see fewer savings results from their GPO/local new and renewal contracts, more and more healthcare organizations are preparing to launch their own Supply Utilization...
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Podcast 61 - Savings Beyond Price 2021 from 2021-09-20T18:53:33
Hospitals & health systems have achieved huge savings gains from group purchasing and internal supply chain contracting/sourcing over the past 10-15 years. There is no doubt that the healthcare sup...
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PODCAST 60-3 Things You Must Know About Your GPO’s Price Savings to Make Them Stick from 2021-06-08T17:05:15
Over the last few decades, GPOs have been the driving force on price and standardization savings for healthcare organizations. However, as Isaac Newton’s third law states, “With every action there ...
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Podcast 59 - 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Supply Chain Expense Management from 2021-03-16T19:35:02
Every supply chain professional is looking for that magic bullet to squeeze a few more dollars out of their supply chain expenses this fiscal year. However, let me tell you a secret I have learned ...
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Podcast 58 - 4 Reasons Why Supply Utilization Savings Are Better Than Price Savings from 2020-08-07T11:51:26
I was just made aware by my staff last week that they are now seeing annualized price savings for even the most contract compliant hospitals, systems, and IDNs that have shrunk to 1% to 2% from 2% ...
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Podcast 57 - Healthcare Supply Utilization Management: What It Is and What It Is Not! from 2020-06-29T14:39:18
In any industry there is terminology that is slow to be adopted but then becomes mainstream and functional. One of these mainstream terms that we use in healthcare today is supply chain management,...
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Podcast 56 - 11 Ways to Fast Track Non-Salary Savings from 2020-05-11T15:15:29
Since hospitals have been asked to temporarily shut down primary revenue sources of their operations, such as major elective surgeries, they will need to reduce costs to the lowest possible levels ...
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Podcast 55 - Three Key Areas for Dramatically Lowering Your Supply Chain Expenses from 2020-04-14T13:18:21
“The pace of decline of profitability margins is slower than it has been in past years, but they are still down. Median operating margins reached 1.7% in 2018, down from 1.8% in 2017. A more sustai...
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Podcast 54 - Value Analysis Evolution: The Commitment to Excellence from 2020-03-16T09:38:40
The dynamics of value analysis in healthcare have radically changed for the better in the last 20 years. We have watched as healthcare organizations moved from “sole practitioners” managing this VA...
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Podcast 53 - 3 Ways to Plug Your Leaky Savings Bucket from 2020-02-21T09:28:59
Imagine a bucket filled with a dozen holes. Now, imagine trying to keep that bucket full of water by adding more water to the bucket. Guess what. The holes continue to leak water, creating a viciou...
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Podcast 52 - Why Many Supply Chain Professionals Don't Believe Big Utilization Savings are Realizable from 2019-11-21T09:23:40
During a recent conversation that Robert W. Yokl (SVAH’s VP, Supply Chain & VA) had with a system supply chain executive. This thought-provoking discussion he had with the system supply chain exec...
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Podcast 51 – Vested Outsourcing Applied to Purchase Services – Interview with Kate Vitasek from 2019-11-13T10:52:02
We are excited today to have Kate Vitasek as our guest today who is a faculty of Graduate and Executive Education at the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business Administration. She is ...
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Podcast 50 - Your Biggest Cost Savings Opportunity Is Often Ignored from 2019-09-25T08:05:37
For many in the healthcare supply chain, this this catch phrase (“providing the right product, at the right time at the right place”) has been the cornerstone of the supply chain’s best practices f...
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Podcast-49-4 Tips You Too Can Use In Your Own Pursuit of Supply Chain Excellence from 2019-09-09T10:21:03
My son, Robert W. Yokl, VP of SVAH Solutions, sent me an article the other day from BBC Sports about the Mercedes Formula 1 racing team, who won six consecutive championships, on their “relentles...
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Podcast 48 - Ensuring Your Achieve All Your Short&Long Term Savings Results from 2019-07-16T07:40
The old supply chain adage of getting the right product at the right price to the right customer at the right time has always been a our goal. But what happens after the product is in the hands of...
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Podcast 47 – Setting Yourself Up for Success with Value Analysis Analytics from 2019-05-02T15:21:59
Value analysis is a systematic process that does not have any software tied to it in any way. You may hear companies call their software Value Analysis Software but it is only software for trackin...
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3 Powerful Tactics to Ensure Your Healthcare Organization Has a Foolproof “Closed-Loop Savings Verification” Process from 2019-04-24T07:32:09
After reading an article by David Shannon and Chuck Miller of Bain & Company about “Closed-Loop Savings Verification” processes (CLSV) in other industries, I discovered that this industry best prac...
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Posdcast 45-Hands Down the Best Tool in the Healthcare Supply Chain - Continual Benchmarkin from 2019-03-10T15:36:36
Benchmarking is nothing new to the healthcare supply chain and clearly you are thinking right now that, “We Benchmark at Our Hospital/System!” So, you know the value of benchmarking from one leve...
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4-Reasons Why It's Imperative that You and Your VA Teams Have Training from 2018-11-30T08:28:56
Healthcare Value analysis training appears to be at the bottom of most VA practitioners to do list, yet it is an imperative that you and your VA teams have basic, advanced and then masterclass valu...
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Podcast 43 - 6 Reasons Why You Need to Move Your Organization Towards Supply Utilization Management Now from 2018-09-17T11:26:18
Just like the value analysis revolution that we experienced in the early 2000’s to the present we are now seeing that supply utilization management (SUM) is becoming a major buzzword in the healthc...
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Podcast 42- 4 Things Supply Chain Leaders Need to Know About the Benefits of Benchmarking from 2018-09-07T07:47:12
If you are a frequent reader of our blog, you would know that we are very high on hospital supply chain benchmarking because it will make your supply chain operation better than just good. Yet, fo...
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Podcast 41 - Avoid These 3 Big Pitfalls of Hospital Supply Chain Savings Projections from 2018-08-20T15:06:02
Every healthcare supply chain organization we know of has either a monthly, quarterly and annual savings reports that they prepare for their senior healthcare management. Most are prepared on spre...
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Podcast 40 - Value Analysis Strategic Planning - Why it is More Important Than Ever Before from 2018-08-06T11:24:25
In this podcast we will outline the major reasons why you need to have a VA Strategic Plan in the first place. Plus we will outline the 5 most important Elements to a Successful Value Analysis Str...
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5 Reasons for Automating Your Healthcare Value Analysis Programs Tasks&Activities Now from 2018-07-25T09:09:17
There seems to be reluctance to automate a hospital, system or IDN’s value analysis program’s tasks or activities at too many healthcare organizations, even though it could be a big productivity bo...
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Podcast 38 - How to Save Even More Money with 5 Lessons Learned with Your Purchase Services from 2018-07-11T14:29:30
We at SVAH Solutions have been working with clients for 31-years to rein in their purchase services costs, so we have learned a few things (specifically five things) that we would like to share wit...
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Podcast 37 - 5 Ways How to Create More Time to Perform Value Analysis from 2018-06-15T11:15:28
Of all the challenges that value analysis practitioners are facing, the lack of time to perform value analysis appears to be on top of their list. With this said, here are five ways how to create m...
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Podcast 36-The Top Five Things You Can do to Save More In Less Time with Less Effort in 2017 from 2017-03-17T06:39:29
The Top Five Things You Can do to Save More In Less Time with Less Effort in 2017
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Podcast 35 - How to Win Arguments with Value Analysis from 2013-01-31T12:26:47
We all know how many arguments we have lost in the past on our savings proposals and how frustrating it can be when that happens. We also know that we are on the right side of the argument, but we ...
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Podcast 34-Reining in Your Multimillion Dollar Purchase Services from 2013-01-30T12:25:36
I would like you to look around your healthcare organization and ask yourself “Who’s in charge of your purchase services?” I can assure you, if you are honest with yourself, the answer is – nobody!...
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Podcast 33 - Comparative Value Analysis Analytics Will Maximize Your Performance from 2013-01-29T11:28:24
Most healthcare organizations, in some shape or form, are employing value analysis analytics to uncover their hidden supply chain expense savings. Yet, we have found only a few who are using compar...
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How Are You Selecting Your Value Analysis Team Leaders and Members To Ensure Success? from 2013-01-08T14:36:52
Are you selecting your value analysis team leaders and members by chance, by their title or by their influence in your organization? If you are, and most hospitals, system and IDNs have been doing ...
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5 Biggest Myths About Healthcare Supply Utilization Management from 2012-07-24T08:45:31
This podcast is geared towards dispelling what we feel are the 5 Biggest Myths that people believe about healthcare supply chain utilization management. This will help clear up the misconceptions ...
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5 Rock Solid Value Analysis Strategies and Tactics that Really Work from 2012-06-05T07:53:19
As more healthcare organizations prepare for the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act more pressure will be placed upon supply chain professionals to save even more in l...
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How to Make Your Cost Management Job Easier - Podcast 29 from 2011-09-14T06:23:30
In this podcast we show you how cost management yet ever more challenging and sophisticated in many respects does not necessarily need for you to make your job harder. We will show you four strate...
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Value Analysis Analytics from 2011-04-28T11:49:46
Value Analysis Analytics is a new and different strategic approach that helps takes yours hospital expense reduction and value analysis efforts to a whole new level of savings beyond price. The co...
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How to Max Out Your Supply Chain Savings from 2011-01-11T08:03:36
In this new year of 2011 Robert T. Yokl, President & Chief Value Strategist and Robert W. Yokl, VP-Operations for SVAH wanted to give you a podcast that will set the stage for what you need to do t...
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There is Gold in Them Thar Hills from 2009-10-19T15:39:55
There is Gold in Them Thar Hills--Maximizing Your MMIS Systems for Greater Savings. In this podcast you we will outline the strategy for maximizing your greatest assest in your healthcare supply c...
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Finding Savings Below the Waterline from 2008-10-31T13:59:18
This podcast is taking one of our sayings Purchase Price is Just the Tip of the Iceberg a bit further in detail. We will dispel the popular thought and mindset that Value Analysis is the only tool...
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Incentivize to Save from 2008-10-06T11:48:39
There is a critical need for healthcare organizations to realize the value of a new generation of incentive programs that will help you keep your supply chain teams working on all of your special i...
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Offsetting Price Increases in Tough Times from 2008-09-05T07:27:30
Rising Product Costs Must Be Counter Balanced by Other Savings Strategies. Find out how much more is really there for you to drive out of your supply chain. Learn how to get your organization on-...
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80-20 Rule for Healthcare Supply Chain Savings from 2008-05-08T09:28:16
80/20 Rule for Healthcare Supply Chain Savings
This podcast is geared towards helping you align your efforts and focus towards the supply chain savings opportunities that will give you the bes...
Supply Chain Hall of Fame is Now A Reality from 2008-02-22T16:37:47
The Supply Chain Hall of Fame is now a Reality!
Today we have a special interview with Jamie Kowalski, president, and Rick Dana Barlow, managing director, Bellwether League, Inc. which i...
11 Strategies to Save Big in 2008 from 2008-01-10T15:41:54
11 Strategies to Save Big in 2008 is a replay of a No Cost Webinar from January 9, 2008. The Webinar really got some great feedback from our registered participants that we thought we would open th...
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How Much Savings is Enough to Make a Change? from 2007-10-05T11:35:03
In this Podcast we will discuss a daily challenge that Supply Chain Managers and Value Analysis Coordinators face, that is at what point do we or don't we take action on a savings or savings oppor...
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Special Bonus Podcast - Certified Value Analysis Leadership from 2007-09-10T13:18:22
Certified Value Analysis Leadership Training Program
Talking Healthcare Value Analysis to a Whole New Level of Training
Value Analysis 2.0 New Rules for Long Lasting Savings from 2007-07-20T09:02:56
New Rules, Systems and Models for Long Lasting Savings Performance!
Isn’t It About Time You Re-Think, Re-New And Re-Invent Your Value Analysis Model To Do The Hard Work That Is Required In The...
Walking the Savings Walk from 2007-06-04T14:53:24
A Proven Business Model to Leading A Successful Supply Chain Savings Program-- This is a replay of a teleseminar that we recorded last year that was a special roundtable discussion with a universit...
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Strategic Dashboards: Why Do We Need Them? from 2007-05-14T10:40:46
In this week’s podcast we will CLEARLY define exactly what dashboards are and why we need them in the healthcare supply chain world. We will go over some real examples of supply chain departments ...
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Drilling Down into Healthcare Supply Chain Benchmarking from 2007-04-30T12:28:39
How to take your supply chain to the next level of benchmarking to further reduce your costs beyond price. In this week’s podcast episode we will address the current state of healthcare supply chai...
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How To Save More In Less Time With Less Wasted Effort from 2007-04-15T10:31:57
On this week's podcast we will discuss how supply chain professional's are in a catch 22 when it comes to reducing costs and improving their hospital and health system's bottom line. Given the fac...
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Optimizing Your Savings Program from 2007-03-06T09:41:40
Learn how to grown and nurture your next generation of supply savings strategies, tools and methods to insure the future savings success of your supply chain operations. This is a special replay o...
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Fueling Your Savings Engine from 2007-01-22T08:36:07
Winning Data Strategies for Savings Success! Savings is more challenging than it ever has been and with the realization that the low hanging fruit has already been picked, this podcast will show y...
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It Wasn't Raining When Noah Built His Ark from 2006-12-09T21:29
- Growing Your Savings Pipeline Before the Torrential Rain Begins Falling -- In this week’s podcast you will learn about how you need to develop your savings systems, methods and reporting proactiv...
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Purchase Cost is Just the Tip of the Iceberg - Podcast 9 from 2006-11-24T20:48:36
Can a simple metaphor help us better understand our supply chain and where the next level of supply chain savings will reside in our organzations? In this podcast, we will share with you how you ca...
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Selling Your Savings Ideas Podcast 08 - Part 2 of 2 from 2006-11-04T16:39:37
In this podcast we will continue with Part Two of Successfully Selling Your Savings Ideas. You will learn what is most important about any particular product or service and where should hospital pr...
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Successfully Selling Your Savings Ideas –Part 1 of 2 from 2006-10-29T12:57:21
In the first part of this two part podcast, you will learn the different dynamics that are involved with selling your bosses, your internal customers and stakeholders inside your organization. Fin...
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Save 10% to 15% More with Technology Value Analysis from 2006-10-20T14:27:31
This week's healthcare supply chain best practices podcast will highlight Robert T. Yokl's recent speaking engagement at the Healthcare
Industry Group Purchasing Association's (HIGPA) Annual ...
Are You Leading Your Supply Chain in the Right Direction from 2006-10-13T14:26:30
On this weeks Supply Chain Best Practices Podcast, we will discuss how you can lead your healthcare organization's supply chain in the right direction.
We will also discuss how you can...
Building a Culture of Accountability with Supply Six Sigma from 2006-10-06T13:24:35
Follow the rules or don't call it value analysis. Most healthcare organizations will say they are doing value analysis, but what they are really doing is GPO contract evaluations, price shopping, ...
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The Power of Benchmarking and Brainstorming from 2006-09-29T13:14:29
Strategic Value Analysis in Healthcare's Supply Chain Best Practice Podcast - Consulting and Strategic Planning, the power of supply chain
benchmarking, using brainstorming as a new way to gen...
Value Analysis is Not Just About Saving Money from 2006-09-22T12:47:16
What is your value analysis program ROI? Learn how to track the success
rate of your supply value analysis program. Also, find out why value
analysis is not just about money and it is jus...
Improve Your Search For New Savings And Quality Ideas from 2006-09-15T14:02:03
Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices Podcast with the new format with
Robert T. Yokl, President & CEO and Robert W. Yokl, VP of Stratetic Value Analysis in Healthcare. This weeks subjects in...
Healthcare Supply Chain Benchmarking for Peak Performance from 2006-08-27T10:07:02
You will learn hot to measure the effectiveness of your supply chain, determine where there are gaps, how to measure those gaps, and hot to fill them with new best practices as well as utilizing ou...
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Strategic Value Analysis Savings Beyond Price from 2006-08-10T14:46:12
Join Robert T. Yokl as he shares his #1 Strategy for Taking Costs Out of A Healthcare Organization's Supply/Value Chain with his Prove 6-Step Strategic Value Analysis System
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