Hospital Materials Management

In an effort to control non-labor expenses, Hospital Materials Management is now more than just procurement. You need visibility into how many products are being used and where they are located.

Can You Relate to These Industry Needs?

  • Do you struggle with having the right supplies in the right place at the right time across your facility?
  • Do you need real-time visibility into your hospital operations?
  • Do you know what your staff is doing?

Hospital Materials Management

Benefits of Moving Materials Management to the Cloud

Healthcare providers have unique material management requirements because of the high volume of materials they consume and track across their campuses or facilities. Having the right amount of the right supplies, at the right time and place, and at the lowest possible cost isn't as easy as it might seem, and it is essential to increasing the quality of patient care. When most of that data exists on paper or in silos, it can be very difficult to gather all of the pieces.  That's where a mobile solution for Oracle Healthcare comes in.

Hospital Materials Management for Oracle Cloud SCM

Using a materials management solution like RF-SMART with Oracle Cloud SCM increases your visibility into product location, movement and related employee activities throughout the hospital. By tracking supplies from purchase to expiration, you are able to eliminate wasteful spending. 

With your data accurate in Oracle, you can quickly identify if there are any discrepancies with your patient satisfaction.

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Improve end-to-end supply chain execution with robust mobile functions:

  • Receiving
  • Inspection
  • Putaway
  • Create Delivery
  • Cycle Counts
  • Physical Inventory Counts
  • Inquiries
  • Picking
  • Transfers
  • Mobile Requisitioning
  • Create IMT
  • Ship Confirm
  • Misc. Issues
  • Misc. Receipts

Hospital Materials Management

 

Real-time Data in Oracle

Our reliable and scalable Cloud application updates Oracle in real-time. Handhelds used across the facility connect to RF-SMART in the Cloud over Wi-Fi or Cellular. RF-SMART then connects to your Oracle instance and requests data from Oracle Cloud and Oracle responds with the data using Oracle Web Services. All of your data is encrypted and follows globally recognized Cloud security best practices.

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PAR Activity Dashboard

 

Simplify the Ordering Process with RF-SMART’s Mobile Requisitioning

High-dollar inventory locations like the OR/Cath Labs/IR, are not managed like PAR locations or Storeroom inventory. Oftentimes the process of reordering items falls to a high-value resource, like a clinician or clinical supply chain professional manually capturing what supplies need to be reordered and then manually entering that data into Oracle Self Service Procurement Cloud.

RF-SMART’s Mobile Requisitioning automates this process with a web-enabled mobile device, eliminating the risk of errors from data entry and drastically improving efficiency.

Automate the ordering process using mobile:

  • Designed to not disrupt clinical workflow​, supplies are ordered from mobile device based on walkthrough
  • Streamlined process of Scan the Item, Enter the Quantity and Verify the UOM
  • Review, edit and delete lines on the device prior to finishing requisition
  • Requisition is submitted and built to Oracle Cloud
Clinicians can now spend less time managing inventory and more time focusing on patient care.

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Everyone wins with a Healthcare Supply Chain that performs

Materials Management affects several departments in your organization. When you make improvements to the performance of your supply chain, it can be appreciated throughout the entire facility:

Information Technology
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Can manage a powerful solution,
without draining internal resources

IT Teams are resource-constrained and you don't need another interface to manage. RF-SMART is pre-integrated to Oracle via standard APIs and requires no IT investment to transfer of data between RF-SMART and Oracle Cloud. Our cloud-based application is easily scalable, always up-to-date, leverages industry best practices.
 
Clinicians
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Can have what they need, when they need it

Doctors and nurses should be focused on patient care - not worrying about supplies. RF-SMART enables your supply chain team to ensure all PAR locations are always stocked, so no one ever needs to scramble.

 

Supply Chain
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Can gain maximum visibility into inventory

Supply chain decisions impact everything in the organization, from patient care to revenue. RF-SMART provides a simple way to streamline the materials management process in order to identify and avoid waste and duplication.
  
 
 
Executives
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 Can make better decisions faster to control costs

There are many demands placed on the executive and finance teams of a healthcare organization. RF-SMART provides a way for executives to contain operating costs through the standardization of supplies, implants, and operations to enable a more streamlined and cost-effective supply chain.

“Our orders have to get out every day or we compromise patient care, and that’s not an option. Using RF-SMART, everyone from our VP, to our sales department, to the technicians has exactly what they need." - Director of Operations for Supply Chain at a US Teaching Hospital

Read how RF-SMART is helping other Oracle Cloud Healthcare Customers.

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