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Introducing e-optimization. Past years of e-Business Important EDI is a tool, a new media for conversation between suppliers and customers However, to make life easier for both, we need an in-between: the carrier. The First Rule of e-Optimization
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Introducing e-optimization • Past years of e-Business • Important • EDI is a tool, a new media for conversation between suppliers and customers • However, to make life easier for both, we need an in-between: the carrier
The First Rule of e-Optimization • Development must meet the needs of both the supplier and the client
Actual Status of e-Business at CHUQ • Transfer from manual procedures to electronic operations of sequential steps and hierarchical responsabilities, following provincial rules and regulations.
10 Steps to Acquire Supplies for a Quebec Hospital • Recognition of needs • Expression of needs • Item data management • Negociation • Purchase • Delivery and receipt • Distribution • Billing • Payment • Analysis and planification
A Vision of the Future • Automation of low value added activities to accelerate the purchasing process and to allow human resources to focus on high value added activities, still following provincial rules and regulations. • The Second Rule of e-Optimization: • All transactions are legal, secured, controlled, stored in our systems and can be audited at any time
The 3 Steps of e-Optimization • Pre-transactional • Transactional • Post-transactional
Pre-transactional Definition • Necessary to global e-optimization • Is your data clean enough? • The Third Rule of e-Optimization • Every item must be under contract and included in the database
Pre-transactional • Impact • Catalogue-based agreements • Do we need an 840? • What do we want from the 832?
Transactional • Definition • Dialog between two poles • Most used electronic transactions • 850, 855, 860, 865, 810, 824 • The Fourth Rule of e-Optimization • Negociations will have to evolve towards catalogue based agreements between manufacturers and clients, with a low number of distributors being chosen to facilitate the introduction of the next two tools
Transactional • New Tool • Phase 2 • Catalogue based agreements • Identical data in client’s and supplier’s systems • Impact • Less suppliers for more manufacturers • Targeted sectors
Transactional • The Fifth Rule of e-Optimization • The number of distributors must be reduced to achieve better control and faster ROI • The Sixth Rule of e-Optimziation • Reducing the number of unecessary human interventions in the objective, automation is the key
Transactional • Another New Tool • RFID • Logistic the private way • Impacts • Health Center’s facilities will have to be modified • Logistical approaches will have to be discussed
Post-Transactional • Evaluation of ROI • Follow-up of purchases versus contract prices • Production of intelligence