Materials Management
Successful materials management is a critical element of enabling world-class care in healthcare organizations. Having the right supplies, tools and equipment where the clinical team needs them, when they need them, ensures ease of access, efficiency and ultimately staff and patient satisfaction. The St. Onge approach to healthcare materials management is founded in strategies informed by data analysis and applied system engineering.
Across management of medical supplies, food, equipment, linens and waste, our team takes a total 360-degree view, from procurement to the bedside, to uncover the big buckets of opportunity that will drive measurable results in efficiency, cost reduction and service quality considering:
- Material stream mapping
- Storage and handling
- Inventory control
- Order processing and replenishment
- Purchase ordering
- Receiving and distribution
- Charge capture
- Evaluation and deployment of off-site Consolidated Service Centers
- Technology and automation
We know materials management systems and processes have profound impacts across your supply chain and patient care experiences in nearly every staff and patient interaction each day. At St. Onge, our system-wide view of materials management understands that true optimization success means looking across departments to uncover the systems, processes and technologies that create efficiencies, allowing clinical staff to spend less time focusing on supply needs and more time on their core competencies.
We use data and analytics to understand the current state of materials management within your organization and employ smart planning informed by lean management principles and subject matter expertise to map true supply and demand models, findings solutions that deliver balance in speed, efficiency and cost. Where appropriate, we use simulation modeling and real-time location systems (RTLS) data to drive improvement recommendations.
Materials management teams are faced with rapidly escalating cost pressures compounded by increasing complexity and delivery service level demands. St. Onge can help. Through our industrial engineering and lean management approach, we develop and deploy high value solutions that deliver measurable results.
