Supply Chain Management cost cutting solutions
Supply Chain costs saving Best Practices
● Profile Tyrecenter : direct connectivity
with suppliers and customers and helps to streamline
sales, logistics, finance, supply chain management
(SCM), and marketing processes
● Laboratory clinical specialists
save Premier members $10.7 million, increase
contract uptake by $46 million 
● Premier
consultants help St. Joseph’s/Candler
top three-year, $1.74 million savings goal
in less than two years 
● SCPI
nets Avera McKennan potential $500,000 in
savings 
● Aurora
Health Care saves $5 million annually on
orthopedic implants 
● CardiacFocus
supply chain benchmarking tool -
By utilizing CardiacFocus, Baton Rouge General
Medical Center realized more than $300,000
in savings for pacemakers in the first year
alone. 
● Five
Arizona Hospitals achieve $250,000 savings
on GI/Endo supplies 
● Carle
Foundation Hospital achieves $1.1 million
in supply chain savings
● Outsourcing lead executive supply
chain position better aligns savings incentives
for IDN 
● BearingPoint
conducted a detailed cost benefit analysis
study of the first Secure
Trade in the APEC Region (STAR) initiative,
Bangkok/Laem Chabang Efficient and Secure Trade
(STAR-BEST). 
● New Neoforma Offering Sheds Light
On Crucial Hospital Supply Spend Information
To Reveal Savings Opportunities
● Medbuy
Takes Aim at Rising Healthcare Costs :
Leading group purchasing organization leverages
Ariba’s spend management solutions
to reduce supply chain costs for Canadian
healthcare
providers 
● Toyota
- Faultless Service Thanks to Radio Frequency
Technology 
● Downstream
petroleum supply chains: incremental optimization
leads to greatest gains 
● IKEA Selects Verticalnet for
Private Trading Hub Initiative
● How
HP built a $1 billion-per-year cost-saving
machine 
● Mitsui & Co.
(U.S.A.) Connects Their Entire Global Value
Chain - From A Single Desk-Top Location
● Nacogdoches
Memorial Cuts Hospital Costs by More Than
$1 Million in Only Nine Months
● Schneider Logistics Selects ILOG
Technology to Reduce Transport Times and Costs
for Schneider Customers
● Premier Licenses Full Verticalnet
XE Suite for Supply Management to Help Drive
Down Healthcare Costs
● Verticalnet Advanced Sourcing Solution
Helps Leading Manufacturer Minimize the Impact
of Increasing Costs for Global Ocean Freight
Shipping
Supply Chain cost saving white papers ang guides
● The ROI of RFID in the Supply Chain 
● Win-win company policies in food logistics systems : Reducing empty running - Improving vehicle time utilisation- Improving vehicle fill - Improving fuel consumption rates - Reducing CO2 and other pollutant emissions 
● Supply chain cost visibility : Today's deeply integrated manufacturing supply chains require an equally integrated cost management framework; to HP, that means one that provides both total cost visibility and the tools needed to proactively manage those costs across all phases of the manufacturing and distribution process. 
● The
hidden cost guide 
● Optimizing
the Front Line Workforce Unlocking the
Real Benefits of Voice Technology in Warehousing
Operations 
● Building
the Profit Focused Supply Chain: A Game
Plan for Capturing Real Value 
● Follow
the leaders Scoring high on the supply
chain maturity model An Australian and
New Zealand perspective
● Consumer
Packaged Goods - Food Manufacturing Industry 
● A
New Take on Supply Chain Event Management 
● RFID
Technology for Warehouse and Distribution
Operations. An RFID Primer 
● Research and Markets : Item
Level RFID Will Save Millions of Lives, Reduce
Sickness and Accidents and Enrich the Retailing
and Information Technology (IT) Industries
and Others
● Benchmarking Calculators : Supply
Expense - Find out how your hospital is performing
against
Premier's national supply expense benchmarking
database, SupplyFocus.
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