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New Savings Opportunities: Getting the Best of Both Worlds with Pricing Management AND Consumption Management

June 10, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Efficiency is critical in hospital supply chains — not just for cost control, but for ensuring consistent, high-quality patient care. Two primary strategies dominate hospital supply chain discussions: pricing management and consumption management. While both […]

Why Benchmarking for Best Practices Can Be a Value Analysis Team’s Best Friend

June 10, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Part of being a data-driven organization means making decisions based on objective, unbiased evidence—not opinions or educated guesses. How can your organization ensure opinions and bias are not involved? Benchmarking. Benchmark data provides a foundation […]

Incorporating Clinical Supply Utilization Management Into Value Analysis

February 15, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Pricing strategies alone are becoming less effective in managing healthcare supply chain costs, and healthcare organizations will need to explore other avenues for savings to fill the gaps. Supply utilization management is a key approach […]

Improvement Strategies for Your Value Analysis Program for 2025 and Beyond

November 15, 2024 Robert Yokl Comments Off

I often hear Value Analysis and Supply Chain professionals talk about how “mature” their VA/Supply Chain programs are. This is great to know but I am a firm believer that VA and Supply Chain are still […]

Working Together to Combat Inflation in the Healthcare Supply Chain

November 13, 2024 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Inflation poses a significant challenge for industries across the board, and healthcare is no exception. Hospitals are particularly vulnerable due to their reliance on complex supply chains that deliver essential medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and personal […]

12 Reasons Why You Should Have a Valid Benchmarking/KPI System to Point You in the Right Direction

November 13, 2024 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Supply chain and value analysis seem like an endless world of projects, initiatives, conversions, problems, recalls, and new product request evaluations that just go on and on. Once you think you have everything taken care […]

Dialing It In: Keys to Supply Cost Optimization and Quality

July 9, 2024 Robert Yokl Comments Off

“How do we achieve cost optimization and quality to save even more money? Dialing your products in within your existing contracts.” We have been through the ringer with 99% of our contract categories and trying […]

How Should KPIs Be Employed to Increase Your Healthcare Organization’s Non-Salary Savings, Quality, and Outcomes?

September 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Targeted Savings While Improving Quality and Outcomes Can Be a Reality We are all looking for the “magic bullet” that will generate more non-salary savings for our healthcare organization while improving quality and outcomes. The […]

Benchmarking is Essential for Your Value Analysis and Utilization Management Success

February 22, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions We have found that benchmarking, or the search for all industries’ best practices, is the best technique we know of to improve your value analysis and utilization management performance. […]

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January 3, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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What Do I Say to Supply Chain Professionals Who Don’t Believe in Savings Beyond Price?

November 19, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions What do I say to supply chain professionals who don’t believe in savings beyond price? I think the best way to […]

There is Always a New Way

November 19, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions “There is always a new way: A new way to solve a problem, a new way of climbing the mountain. The ability to identify that […]

But the Healthcare Supply Chain is Different!

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Michael Bohon, Managing Director—Healthcare Solutions Bureau How many times have you heard someone say the above statement as to why ideas, concepts and practices from other industries will not work in healthcare? Personally, I cannot […]