For healthcare procurement executives looking to bring in costs and improve compliance, a new trend is arising. GPO executives are deploying spends analysis more regularly to gain better visibility into areas of savings leakage and improve compliance tracking but they are also tapping the strategy for a new care quality purpose by aligning physician supply preferences with patient outcomes.

Procurement executives in hospitals and healthcare networks and GPOs are charged with, trimming the bottom line, but also face an even greater challenge – maintaining tight relationships with doctors to understand their product preferences and the connection to a much greater goal – the improvement of patient outcomes.
Cutting-edge GPOs are beginning to experiment with care results. By analyzing spend and tying products purchased back to positive patient outcomes, as well as cost, GPOs can decide what products make the most sense for the patients, as well as the bottom line.
With GPOs purchasing 100k plus categories on a monthly basis, advanced spend analysis is needed for this type of endeavor.

A Win-Win

Using spend analysis, GPOs can monitor contract compliance and improve patient outcomes with existing agreements to find missed opportunities for saving and to identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes with less costly product alternatives.

GPOs have a mountain of information at their fingertips – contracts, commitments, purchase history, invoices, vendor data and most importantly, supply, physician and procedure level patient outcome data. Spend analysis allows GPOs to enrich their spend data with outside information (market data, physician preferences, patient outcome data, etc.) to confirm that a contract is still providing value and to identify less expensive, more effective supply alternatives.
The high costs of healthcare dominate headlines and for good reason – purchasing a single pacemaker off-contract may be as much as $700 more than buying one from a vendor under contract. Physician preference items can be expensive. But if the cost can be justified by a better outcome, there is a greater value that is provided by the GPO beyond cost savings.

What’s the benefit for the GPO, why would they want to invest in areas that aren’t instrumental to savings – how can they measure success? By working with a company that is improving health, ultimately there is benefit which ties back to spend. Healthcare organizations want their patients to be healthy – but also on the economic front, they need to responsibly source their goods.

Spend analysis and patient outcomes seem like unlikely partners, but with 80% of overall healthcare spend controlled by the top GPOs, they are implementing spend analysis to find ways to make much needed cost reductions while upholding the same standard of care – deciding what products make the most sense for the patients, as well as the bottom line.

Paul Martyn

Paul Martyn is VP of Supply Strategy at BravoSolution, the spend analysis company.

Hicks’ unparalleled expertise in sales and marketing strategy and supply chain management has been honed through a breadth of strategic positions. Recently, Hicks was the Vice President of Worldwide Services Sales and Marketing for Lenovo Computers and was responsible for long-term growth strategies and overall sales performance of the division. Prior to Lenovo, Hicks was a Vice President at Capgemini Consulting and led the West Supply Chain Practice, where he advised clients on how to optimize and virtualize their supply chains. He has also held key roles with Deloitte, Dell, Frito Lay and UPS.

Jay Bhatt, president and chief executive officer, Progress Software said: “Business leaders need real visibility to mitigate risks and take quick, decisive actions, and the supply chain presents an enormous opportunity to realize these benefits. Hicks’ expertise and leadership will help Progress customers deploy supply chain technologies that enable them to become more operationally responsive and build market share.”

Hicks earned his bachelor’s degree in Operations Management from Auburn University and his master’s of business administration from Emory University.

About Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation PRGS +1.42% is an independent enterprise software company that enables businesses to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur — to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class enterprise software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and deployment — all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000 .

Progress and Progress Software are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Any other names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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To help clients with this challenge, IBM is leading the industry again in supply chain analytics with its latest release of the IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus supply chain design solution. This solution provides powerful optimization and scenario analytics to determine optimal supply chain configurations, sourcing strategies and production plans. It takes into account all cost and constraint variables, whether manufacturing, transportation or warehousing, across multiple tiers of even the most complex networks.

The new release introduces the industry’s first multi-objective optimization technology; enabling companies to gain a much deeper understanding of the trade-offs between conflicting objectives within their supply chain. This breakthrough in network modeling capabilities is achieved through complex mathematical capabilities. The new solution can move from single to two-dimensional analysis allowing companies to gain more insight and develop better business plans by directly balancing critical objectives.

The software creates a graphical curve that helps companies visualize the tradeoffs between different objectives in any model. Without this capability, users would have to run hundreds of ‘what if scenarios’ to gain just a small amount of insight into this trade-off or blindly run scenarios without guidance as to what limits to set around the key objectives. For example, a company deciding on an optimal number of distribution centers can evaluate the optimal risk point between cost and service levels to understand the exact point of diminishing returns.

This new capability will benefit companies in many industries, including manufacturers, consumer products companies, food and beverage, retail and transportation companies. It will bring companies more insight than ever before into the key drivers of their supply chain by quickly and transparently being able to see the interaction of supply chain objectives. Popular examples that exploit the multi-objective optimization include these comparisons:

– Total Costs vs. Sourcing Costs – This helps companies achieve the best balance between developing products themselves or sourcing them by comparing optimized sourcing costs from outside suppliers with transportation and internal manufacturing costs.
– Total Costs vs. Number of Storage Locations – This helps companies understand the diminishing returns on the total cost of its supply chain network when considering adding new storage locations closer to demand markets.
– Service to Top Customers vs. Overall Service – This helps companies understand how much its service levels to its standard customers suffer when it tailors service for its top customers.

The latest release of this already-robust network design solution continues IBM’s efforts to give companies full insight into the optimized results being recommended. For example, it’s added additional depth into landed cost and lane analysis reporting. In addition, IBM also continues to enhance the tool’s ‘ease of use’ by including features such as lane visualization capabilities that make model building more efficient and visually appealing to line of business executives trying to understand and take part in the modeling effort from a higher level.

Change is constant. These new capabilities from IBM are providing the next generation of analytics capabilities that will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s dynamic, agile supply chains optimized to support smarter commerce. For more information on these capabilities, visit these sites:

See this blogpost from Michael Watson describing the latest update and here’s a link to the IBM Logicnet Plus product page with further details.

A $1 million RFP for coal has been posted to Ariba Discovery®, the premier service for matching business buyers and sellers globally offered by Ariba, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA), the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Is it a coincidence? Or is the Indian manufacturing company behind the posting performing the work of elves?

“If the number of folks on his naughty list has grown, Santa may need to beef up his coal supply,” said Rob Mihalko, Vice President, Ariba Discovery. “And with Christmas just five days away, he’ll need to do it fast.”

As companies around the world have found, Ariba Discovery is the fastest, most efficient way to find new suppliers and lock in deals.

Delivered via the Ariba Network, Ariba Discovery is a unique cloud-based service that automatically matches buyer requirements with seller capabilities. Buyers using Discovery get access to a high-quality supply base and can reduce the time and cost of seller qualification by up to 90 percent, and overall project spend by 15 percent on average. Sellers can build relationships with real decision-makers in the world’s leading buying organizations and deliver valid buying opportunities faster than other marketing methods, boosting overall sales and marketing success.
In the past 12 months, more than 15,000 matches between buyers and sellers for more than $3 billion in business have been made through Ariba Discovery.

To learn more about the service and how your organization can benefit from it, visit http://discovery.ariba.com.

About Ariba, Inc.

Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Ariba combines industry-leading technology with the world’s largest web-based trading community to help companies discover, connect and collaborate with a global network of partners – all in a cloud-based environment. Using the Ariba® Commerce Cloud, businesses of all sizes can buy, sell and manage cash more efficiently and effectively. Over 700,000 around the globe use the Ariba Commerce Cloud to simplify inter-enterprise commerce and enhance results. Why not join them? To get on the path to Better Commerce visit: www.ariba.com/commercecloud/

OTHER RECENT QUIRKY POSTINGS ON ARIBA DISCOVERY:
• $100,000-$500,000 worth of gearbox housings
• $100,000 worth of towels
• $1 million to $5 million worth of fresh meat or poultry
• $10,000 worth of straw
• $1 million to $5 million of boilers
• $10,000 worth of genetics research services
• $10,000 worth of dolls
• $50,000 to $100,000 worth of gates
• $500,000 to $1 million worth of treats for cats or dogs
• $50,000 worth of hydrological surveys
• $10,000 to $50,000 worth of costumes
• $5 million worth of price tags
• $100,000 to $500,000 worth of energy conservation

> iTunes has revolutionized the way we buy and consume music
> Amazon has reinvented the way we read books
> Groupon have inject hysteria into the process of bargain hunting on the Web.
> Go to www.reebok.com/Customize , www.nike.com/iD, or www.miadidas.com, to design a pair of sneakers.
> Shirts My Way asks users to submit their exact body measurements for a shirt tailored to fit.
> MixMyGranola lets you choose all the fixings that go into your granola mix.
> Chocri lets you create your own chocolate bar.
> Heinz will let you add custom labels to ketchup bottles.
> Personalized M&Ms are now available with your face, or a company logo on them.
> SAP has even found an orchard that lets you customize apples (see picture)

So, how will social networking affect businesses and supply chains? We are seeing a lot of marketing to end consumers, and thus new channels to drive demand, but how can we improve our supply processes? Can we leverage social networks to drive benefits across our end-to-end supply chain processes?

Enter the social and mobile network

With an estimated 1.2bn people (20 per cent of the world’s population) on social networks, we are at a point where social software capabilities need to be prevalent throughout enterprise systems. And increasingly, we are accessing this social network through mobile devices.

In 2010, the installed base of mobile PCs and smart phones exceeded that of desktop PCs and about 20m tablet devices (e.g. iPads, ) were sold. By 2016 this number is estimated to rise to 900 million, or one for every eight people on eartth.

Is your supply network ready for the Social Network?

At the recent CSCMP Annual Global Conference there was a session on Social Media in Supply Chain Management where the question was posed “Is Social Media in Supply Chain Management a Waste of Time?” The moderator, Adrian Gonzalez wrote a great summary of the event in his logistics viewpoint article.

As the examples above show, to this point social media has been used mostly by business-to-consumer (B2C) to enable companies to promote their brands and market their products to consumers. From a business perspective, the “early adopters” are young professionals who already use these tools (such as facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and blogs) in their personal lives, and the focus has been largely on enhancing external communication, awareness and thought leadership.

Now we are starting to see leaders leveraging social networks for more business-to-business (B2B) processes. Collaborating with customers, suppliers, outsourced manufacturers, LSP’s and other partners. www.socialtimes.com reported that the “Use of social networks by the Fortune 500 companies has seen explosive growth in 2010, with 83% of the companies using at least one of the social media sites.”

A recent report by Buddy Media and Booz & Company identified Facebook (with 850 million users, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that 94% of respondents regard it #1), Twitter(77%) and YouTube (42%) as the top three preferred social media platforms for brands to utilize. This information does not mean that the functionality of other social media platforms, including blogs, and enterprise systems like Moxie Software and Yammer are not valuable to enhance external communication and collaboration (See 11 Predictions for B2B Social Media in 2011).

SAP recently announced the acquisition of Crossgate to instantly connect SAP customers and their business partners to networking at the enterprise level. Crossgate helps companies connect with any trading partner by joining the network once and linking with prebuilt business partner profiles. This is a full-service alternative, which eliminates the need for costly point-to-point integration. It lowers costs and enables further partner participation in B2B initiatives.

There is also a huge opportunity to improve internal communication and collaboration between co-workers and across functional groups and departments. We at SAP leverage SAP StreamWork to bring together people from different locations, regions and departments to “get everyone on the same page”. We use this collaboration tool to share documents and data, and collaborate with a structured approach with tools for brainstorming and decision-making.

It is not a case of IF social networks will have an effect on your business and associated supply networks. It is a case of WHEN.

As one of the executives on the CSCMP Panel commented “Five years from now we won’t be talking about social media in supply chain management–it will just be supply chain management”.

The advent of social networks is offering a whole new wave of opportunities. As ever, it’s what you do with these opportunities and how you manage them that will make the difference.

Richard Howells

Originally posted on Forbes.com

Food safety encompasses the origin, processing and packaging of food so that consumers don’t get sick from the food they buy. Increased food production, growing market demand and faster delivery are just three of the many challenges companies face in trying to keep food safe all along the food supply chain.

RFID increasingly provides the most effective means to solve these challenges and to ensure compliance with recently enacted legislation designed to protect consumers.

The MIT Enterprise Forum is bringing together key experts for a panel discussion of the major issues, technologies, and business cases surrounding the RFID-enabled food chain. Come and hear for yourself how RFID is making food safer and food-borne illness easier to trace.

Moderator: John Greaves, President and CEO, SSI

John Greaves has been actively involved in AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Capture) including RFID for many years. His pioneering work in the area of global logistics, inventory management and the returnable transport Items sector with both active and passive RFID has led to the significant adoptions occurring in supply chains, health care and security.??He was the founding chair of the US RFID standards group, led the European Spectrum Initiative, was the leader of the GTAG program for EAN.UCC, and developed — among many significant RFID implementations worldwide — the one-tag-per-pallet UHF solution with CHEP.

Click here to register for this event!

As with every year, there are opportunities to learn new things and meet new people. Here’s a link to my recent tweetstream for shoutouts to some of the great people I met this year!

Held again in Philadelphia, this year’s event brought back memories of 2004, the year the old CLM: Council of Logistics Management became today’s CSCMP: Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals!

New of course, in it’s second year, is The CSCMP Supply Chain of the Future exhibition. And I’m pleased to report I did come across the retail & consumer products supply chain of the future but NOT at the exhibition (more on this later)

Those who know me are aware I’m active on Twitter both as @JeffAshcroft and @SupplyChainNtwk. Last year in San Diego we held the very first SCN Tweetup at CSCMP to which 3 people came. Happy to report this year we had a 100% increase in attendees and many, many more tweeting under the #CSCMP and #CSCMP2011 hashtags.

For the first time some social content was also included on Wednesday with @TerriGriffith (also presenting at our CCE2011 event in two weeks) and Adrian Gonsalvez sharing their insights. I am fascinated by the coming potential of social networking for supply chain improvement. Since 2009 I have been writing and presenting on the same, in fact Social is one of The Seven S’s of Supply Chain Management which highlights seven key trends emerging to support future state SCM.

So where did I see the Retail & Consumer Products Supply Chain of the Future you may be wondering? Well it was in the first and best session I attended this year including Del Monte, Ahold USA and a name you may not be familiar with yet, ES3!

In 1995 I lead a team which created a visionary company called Crosslink to deliver on the Efficient Replenishment benefits of ECR. Key to this success was very tightly synchronized multi-vendor product and data flows creating significant inbound transport & process savings and service improvements.

Suffice it to say I was more than pleased, and very excited, to hear what Ahold, Del Monte and ES3 have now created in York Pennsylvania. Based on complete product data synchronization this highly automated 110 foot high facility is a shared Supplier / Retailer storage and consolidation facility. On the outbound side the system automatically creates fully cubed mixed vendor and retailer owned goods to be shipped direct to store.

This facility eliminates the need for a retailer Distribution Center and savings have been pegged at 54 cents a case! Not chump change and funnily enough quite close to the projected 58 cents projected savings for a similar network called NonStop Logistics. NonStop was a consortium of major 3PL and Transport firms which proposed 29 similar facilities across the US in the 1990?s but never got off the ground.

It seems the powers that be for the CSCMP Supply Chain Innovation Award tend to agree with me. Ahold USA, Del Monte and ES3 were named as this year’s recipients and as you can see deservedly so! Not only does such a shared supply chain create savings and service improvements, it also represents the most sustainable supply chain model.

In my first Constellation Research report The Search for Synergy in Supply Chains I breakdown the component Types, Indicators and Facilitators of supply chain synergy. Part Two of this report is in process now including specific case studies such as ES3 demonstrating real world implementations validating these major synergy savings opportunities. These benefits are still on the table and available to those ready to join The Supply Chain Synergy Revolution!

See you at next year’s CSCMP in Atlanta Georgia where I have already proposed to chair a track called The Social Supply Chain!

Please ping me if you have any use cases for social networking in supply chain to share. Likewise if you have developed any socially enabled supply chain solutions please bring them to my attention. Until next year’s CSCMP and feel free to follow and reach out to me at anytime through @JeffAshcroft or @SupplyChainNtwk

Jeff Ashcroft

Session Details

In addition to Brasca, the panel, entitled “Outsourced versus Insourced – Debated by Case Studies,” features Todd Jackson, president, Alliant Logistics, a division of the U.S. Foodservice; Mathew Menner, senior vice president, Transplace; and William Pollard, vice president, customer service and transportation, Del Monte Foods, Inc.

In the session, panelists representing both sides of the debate will each present a real-world case study: an “outsourced” supply chain and its third-party logistics partner, and an “insourced” supply chain and its pervasive technology solutions partner. Key learnings from each phase of the respective relationships – “spec, build, and run” – will be shared. The session is designed to provide additional fact-based inputs related to each scenario to help attendees in their decision making as they consider the future direction of their respective supply chain strategies.

Founded in 1963, CSCMP is a worldwide professional association dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of research and knowledge on supply chain management. With more than 8,500 members representing nearly all industry sectors, government, and academia from 67 countries, CSCMP members are the leading practitioners and authorities in the fields of logistics and supply chain management. The CSCMP Annual Conference brings together supply chain experts to share insights into streamlining operations, eliminating inefficiencies, deploying cutting edge business processes, reducing costs, inspiring team members, and increasing profitability.

Attendees wishing to schedule a meeting with JDA at the event should send an email to Aaron Lee, solutions marketing manager, at aaron.lee@jda.com. For more information on the event, click here.

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About JDA Software Group, Inc.

JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, is a leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies®, Manugistics®, E3®, Intactix® and Arthur®. JDA’s multiple service options, delivered via the JDA® Private Cloud, provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise.

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Glen Margolis

“We are very pleased to welcome a highly respected thought leader and seasoned technology executive like Nari to the management team,” stated Glen Margolis, Chief Executive Officer of Steelwedge. “I am confident that his deep understanding of both S&OP best practices and the industry landscape will be of tremendous benefit to our customers.”

Mr. Viswanathan has extensive experience in industry analysis, market research, product management, marketing and consulting. He has published widely in the areas of S&OP, IBP and supply chain management and has been featured in Industry Week, CIO and Business Week. Prior to Aberdeen Group, Mr. Viswanathan was a senior product manager at i2 Technologies.

Nari Viswanathan

“I am very excited to join the premier S&OP and IBP solutions provider. Steelwedge offers the perfect combination of process expertise and technology platform capabilities.” explained Mr. Viswanathan. “I look forward to applying my knowledge of industry best practices and technology to design and implement Steelwedge solutions that will help our customers accomplish more with S&OP and IBP.”

Please join Nari for a webinar on October 13 to discover the “Seven Keys to Next Generation Integrated Business Planning.” Attendees will be the first to receive an exclusive copy of his forthcoming white paper: “Driving Business Value through S&OP: The Role of Integrated Business Platforms in Planning Excellence.” Connect with Nari via Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Steelwedge

Steelwedge supercharges sales and operations planning (S&OP) and integrated business planning (IBP) with the power of automated collaboration and analytics. We build consensus among sales, marketing, finance, and the supply chain so that companies can understand fluctuating demand, balance sales and capacity trade-offs, connect S&OP with financial planning, and measure performance against strategic revenue and customer service targets. With more software-as-a-service (SaaS) S&OP deployments than all of our competitors combined, Steelwedge serves industry leaders including Canon, Emerson, NVIDIA, Sara Lee, Sony and Syngenta.

© 2011 Steelwedge and all Steelwedge product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Steelwedge Software, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective holders.

At the “Power of the Platform” event, Descartes is scheduled to unveil its new Logistics Technology Platform, feature live technology demonstrations, and present Logistics Technology Platform customer success stories. The scheduled demonstrations focus on advances in integrated routing, mobile and telematics, logistics flow control and logistics networking technologies. The event also includes a keynote address from Descartes’ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Art Mesher, providing an update on Descartes’ technology and business strategy leveraging the new Logistics Technology Platform.

“We’re launching our Logistics Technology Platform to give our customers what they want – modular and interoperable logistics management solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of their operations and improve customer service,” said Ed Ryan, Chief Commercial Officer at Descartes. “This launch event is a great opportunity to see our new Logistics Technology Platform live and in action, with real-life examples of how customers use our technology to improve their logistics operations.”

Additional event details are available at http://www.descartes.com/poweroftheplatform.

People interested in attending the limited seating event should contact Heather Russell (email: hrussell@descartes.com, telephone: +1 678 247 0472) or Laurie McCauley (email: lmccauley@descartes.com, telephone: +1 519 746 6114 x2358).

About Descartes

Descartes (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) is a global leader in logistics technology, providing Global Trade Compliance, Supply Chain Execution and Mobile Resource Management services. Enabling these services is The Global Logistics Network (GLN), the world’s most extensive multi-modal business network with over 35,000 trading partners connected. The GLN and its services unite global and local businesses and trading partners, allowing them to connect and collaborate in a cost effective way and maximize their productivity and efficiency. GLN members include ground carriers, airlines, ocean carriers, freight forwarders, third-party providers of logistics services customs house brokers, freight payment agencies, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, mobile services providers and regulatory agencies. Descartes is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and has offices in North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. More information and industry updates are available at http://www.descartes.com and http://blog.descartes.com.

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