Driving Out Costs
‘ Leaders have an opportunity to play a strategic role in their organizations by providing greater spend visibility ’
technology is only as good as the data that feeds it . Data plays a key role in providing the foundation on which healthcare supply chain management technol ogy is built . Without great content ( right item , right description , right price ), the focus of a technology solution shifts from process automation to workflow enablement as more players must participate to ensure that the right data goes to the supplier when a product is ordered .
5 . Doing Business a Different Way Too often , organizations make isolated tech nology decisions rather than focusing on a plan to implement an entire solution . Leading organizations , however , look at things more pragmatically , focusing on the implications of supply chain transformation for the entire organization . More importantly , they recognize that the benefits of
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