Find out more about McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing, the hospital supply chain solutions to improve efficiency and productivity of supply chain.

1. McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing™
Formulary-Managed Purchasing that Imitates the Ease of Consumer Online Shopping

2. Master Your Hospital Supply Chain Spend
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• McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing™, powered
by Amazon Web ServicesTM and a supply chain
artificial intelligence engine, promotes new
savings through formulary-based procurement
through a robust marketplace solution that
imitates the ease of consumer online shopping
• The following benefits may be achieved:
– Enforced defined formulary of your organization
– Decreased spend leakage in real-time and a capture
of the entire supply spend
– High-cost PPI management
– Enhanced contract compliance and opportunity to
optimize tier levels for potential cost-savings
– Improved data quality
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The Marketplace
The health care system’s virtual item
master (VIM) exchanges information
with an e-commerce marketplace, an
artificial intelligence (AI) engine that
contains the industry data set.
The marketplace provides full
e-commerce services to hundreds of
vendors and transaction sets, and
contains more than 1.7 million items
including photos and full-length
product descriptions.
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Features
• ecommerce marketplace access through your own
private virtual item master (VIM) powered by Amazon Web
Services™
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine that normalizes and
cleanses item file of disparate descriptions
• Integration and compatibility with entire hospital supply
chain spend
• Virtual abundance of attributions and naming
conventions with functionally similar and equivalent
product identification
• Facility-level support with organizational roll-up to
central virtual item master
• Agnostic solution that works with most materials
management information (MMIS) solution systems, not
just the McKesson supply chain solution
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McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is a
healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to
making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers,
hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and
others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that
deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers
improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions
that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management,
healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For
more information, visit http://www.mckesson.com .
For more information about McKesson hospital supply chain solutions, visit
our website.
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