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Healthcare Supply Chain and Logistics

The dynamic changes in the healthcare field affecting providers and suppliers are a result of increasing regulations, shrinking margins, physician preference items, changing technologies and expanding footprints. Healthcare supply chains are tasked with not only providing high customer service levels, but also with improving levels of customer service while managing costs and maintaining business growth and patient care.

Healthcare providers are the “retailers” in the healthcare value chain, but with an ever more complicated and dynamic store front. As providers approach cost efficiencies through economics of scale via acquisitions and other distributed means of care, the movements of material become more complex and costly. Whether a large IDN or a smaller provider system, material, inventory and distribution costs are generally the second highest cost category behind labor.

Devising and implementing a sound supply chain and logistics strategy takes deep experience in every aspect of the healthcare supply chain, from projecting future business requirements to building vendor relationships to making positive changes in receiving and storage processes, inventory levels, product flow, transportation strategies and more.

Leading healthcare companies turn to the supply chain and logistics experts at Sedlak to support their cost efficiencies, competitive advantages and business growth, all while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.

Sedlak’s strategy experts distill the intricate nuances and complexities of unique and individual healthcare supply chains into straightforward and unbiased go-forward solutions. We combine decades of experience, insight and success with sophisticated analytic methodologies to provide clear and objective independent perspectives and to help you develop a supply chain and logistics strategy to confidently balance cost, quality and outcomes.

What We Can Do For Your Healthcare Supply Chain

Current and future supply chain evaluation
Statistical development and strategic analysis
Inventory allocation and flow strategies
Vendor relationship management
Technology and capital investment business case development
Long-range forecasting
Offer supply chain solutions which will improve levels of customer service while maintaining costs

Success Stories

AboutHealth

AboutHealth engaged Sedlak to identify potential opportunities for the AboutHealth owners to consolidate the distribution of their medical supplies.

VWR International

VWR International is a global laboratory supply and distribution company who reached out to us for assistance in developing an appropriate facility concept and material handling solutions design for combined operations in a new greenfield distribution center. Our design for the facility layout and operations plan maximized the effectiveness of the proposed material handling system and included a two-stage implementation plan that balanced investment with planned growth.

Vitacost

Our client, Vitacost.com, an e-commerce company that sells vitamins and supplements, had a west facility not performing as expected. Not only did we deliver an improvement plan for their west facility, but we offered a project management plan, including a timeline, budget and vendor for their Midwest facility as well.

The Palm Tree Group

Sedlak assisted in the requirements development, cost and benefit evaluation, vendor selection and implementation project management of a new ERP/WMS system for The Palm Tree Group. Our team managed the successful, on-time and on-budget implementation of Palm Tree Group’s entire information support systems, including full integration, volume, stress testing and user acceptance testing prior to readiness assessment and go-live.

Regional Healthcare System

Our client, a regional healthcare system, needed a supply chain strategy to optimize their cash flow, reduce and manage their inventory, improve their point of use replenishment, optimize their FTE and clean up their MMIS. Our recommendations, after a lengthy assessment of their supply chain, could potentially save the company a $120K cash flow improvement and a savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

Perrigo

Sedlak recommended an optimum network configuration to Perrigo, a distributor of pharmaceuticals and nutritional products, identifying the best flow of products throughout multiple facilities within their network and providing them with a sensitivity analysis of solutions to increase their understanding of the impact other possible acquisitions and changes might have on their business.

PEL Supply

Needing optimization of its distribution network, PEL Supply turned to Sedlak. We recommended operational enhancements focused on improved throughput, service and costs and provided a facility expansion plan providing optimal size, layout and equipment with specifications and bid packages for the building, material handling equipment and systems and documents outlining supporting IT systems and technologies.

Large Academic Healthcare Institution

Sedlak made recommendations to our client, one of the largest academic institutions in the U.S., specializing in advanced biomedical research and graduate-level education in healthcare and the life sciences, which were projected to achieve or $1 million in operating cost savings.

Large Academic Healthcare Institution

Sedlak's analyses and recommendations for our client, a large academic institution, dramatically reduced their need for new transportation vehicles and delayed the necessary capital expenditure for the smaller number of vehicles that were eventually required.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

We recommended a preferred 3-DC option and a preferred 4-DC Option to a multinational pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccine and consumer healthcare company, each equally reducing transportation expenses. In addition, we recommended network options that maintained targeted service levels for both.

Blood Systems, Inc.

Sedlak reduced distribution network costs by 30% for a large provider of blood and blood products and then supported the alignment of the organization and four of their affiliates to the new integrated distribution approach.

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The healthcare consulting experts at Sedlak have helped healthcare providers of all sizes improve their service delivery infrastructure, strategy and operations. For more information about our healthcare provider consulting services, please fill out our contact form below and a Sedlak professional will be in touch shortly to discuss your needs.

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