Services

Reducing the cost of pharmacy supply chain

• Do you need to reduce your stock holding?
• Are you pressured to make cost efficiency savings?
• Do you engage in too many manual processes?
• Do you need to release time for other tasks that often get neglected?
• Do you need to move forward with medicine management systems?

Added Value Services helps to take the hidden costs out of the pharmacy supply chain by looking at:

• Actual cost vs price
• Minimum order values
• Penalty order values
• Double handling
• Time to patient
• Waste
• Manual Processes
• Carriage charges
• Increased risk of errors
• Frequency of ordering
• Space
• Duplication of effort

• Experienced technical resource offering
• A fresh look at day to day processes
• Understanding of your specific needs
• Shared good practice models
• Benefits with partnership approach
• Added Value Services in bite sized chunks or bespoke projects

• Increased cost efficiency savings
• Released staff time for other duties
• Reduced stock holding
• Reduction in number of orders raised
• Reduction in number of suppliers used
• Reduction in carriage charges
• Reduced number of errors caused by manual processes
• Move forward with current agenda and changing shape o pharmacy

• Different needs in different hospitals
• Process Mapping that highlights non-value steps
• Identifying bottle necks and double handling in work flow
• Reducing quadruple handling in one hospital
• Incorrect receipt and invoicing procedures in another leading to high level of debt
• Duplication of effort for staff – 3 orders THREE times a day for peripheral dispensaries
• Too many manual process – telephoning orders through to suppliers

• Process and workflow Mapping
• Lean Stock Control and Management
• Advanced order Assembly and Separation of orders
• Supplier Rationalisation
• Product Rationalisation

Fore more information about our Added Value Services please speak to your AAH National Account Manager or contact one of our Service Development Managers:

• Sarita Harris - Service Development Manager (North) - sarita.harris@aah.co.uk
• Clare Williams - Service Development Manager (South) - clare.williams@aah.co.uk
• avs@aah.co.uk