The Optimé leadership team provides healthcare supply chain consulting and has decades of experience in healthcare materials management leadership and supply chain design, application development and mathematical optimization. That experience has taught us that the keys to solving intractable healthcare supply chain problems are flexibility and sustainability.
Our previous experience was in coaching, mentoring, education and interim leadership. Those are stickier solutions than one-time consulting on a project basis. Now, with our unique combination of technologies and consulting, we can do all of those things, but also leave behind the tools and processes every client needs for self-sustaining success.
We start with the knowledge that each organization is different in its needs and cultural readiness. Some hospitals and health systems may lack a core competency for a function, such as strategic sourcing. Others may not have the wherewithal to find the right people to manage the function. Or they may not possess the right tools and technology. Our flexible approach is tailored to clients’ needs; we can do anything from project-oriented consulting to coaching and mentoring to interim supply chain leadership.
We can even be your permanent sourcing department – Optimé can come in with the technology applications and a team to take over a function indefinitely. Or over time, we will hire the right people, train them and eventually transfer the methodologies and processes to them.
We have found that applying the right method the unique situation is the key to sustainable, measurable and demonstrable outcomes. We have extensive experience in all types of consulting engagements, including include supply chain assessments, value analysis training and mentoring, non-salary expense reduction both departmental specific and entire facility engagements, GPO evaluation and selection, and distribution-effectiveness and efficiency analysis. Our extensive library of best practices is customized to fit your organizational culture.
We can also help you solve your inventory problems. Materials management has traditionally managed only a fraction of the health systems inventory, but that dynamic is changing, and Optimé can provide expertise to optimize inventory levels across all areas. That includes inventory controls from the distributor and/or consolidated service center, warehouse or storeroom to the nursing unit Par locations and procedure areas.
Our analytics and expertise help health systems optimize the amount of capital tied up in inventory and improve service levels, so that supplies are available when and where needed. We can advise on the return on investment in a number of distribution models, including consolidated service centers, enhanced distributor services or traditional distributor relationship. (Specifically, we assess low unit of measure, stockless, just-in-time delivery, vendor managed inventory and other methods.) As with all of our services we are developing leave-behind inventory analytics tools and subscription services to maintain/sustain any gains achieved through our consulting.
Our revenue model is that this is not about a one-time, enormous consulting fee, nor is it a budget-busting technology buy. We break down deployment of our work into manageable installs that fit with a client’s budget and help deliver a clear and measurable ROI.
The Optimé holistic and customized approach is demonstrating that year-over-year expense management results are within any organization’s reach.
