Best Practices in PO Approval
I’m lucky. I spend my days working with different care providers across the country, helping map and create processes to streamline supply chain, and support an efficient infrastructure for their business. Some days it’s an Ambulatory Surgery Center, the next may be a...
Why Isn’t My Automated Supply Chain More… Automated?
5 Ideas to Increase Order Automation -by Lanie Farkas Years ago, I heard a hospital materials manager say – “I love your system. It gives me one place that I can go and print out all my purchase orders, so I can file them in my filing cabinet.” It still makes me...
So Many Supplies, So Little Time
We all know the stories – clinicians hiding supplies in the ceiling tiles, lockers, desk drawers – heck, there’s probably something stashed right now behind the coffee filters in the break room. What that urban myth (or maybe, true story) is telling us is that...
Good, Better, Best Practices
Good, Better, Best Practices We asked IOS business leaders Steve Britt, Managing Partner, and Jeff Lawrence, Vice President of Business Development, to share their thoughts on the newly launched IOS Best Practices Program, and answer a few questions about the value of...
