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Breakthrough Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Require More Than Just Incremental Change

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Incremental savings have their place — but if your healthcare organization is serious about achieving breakthrough, triple-digit savings, you need a structured cost management system. No healthcare organization can continue doing things the same way […]

Making a Difference with Savings Beyond Price Optimization

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Producing a Major Impact on Savings Beyond Price Optimization There are many different views about how Value Analysis is making a difference in our healthcare world, but I believe the biggest difference that Value Analysis […]

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 […]

Clinical Supply Utilization Management: The Gift that Keeps Giving Big Savings

February 15, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Clinical supply utilization management (CSUM) is not a one-time event but instead is a fluid and ever-changing system to track everything in your supply chain using patient volume centric metrics to ascertain where savings, problems, […]

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 […]

Enhancing Your Contracting Strategy

November 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

“In the evolving healthcare landscape, incorporating clinical product utilization into the contracting strategy can uncover significant savings.” The contract cycle is a familiar space for most healthcare organizations. It may look like the following scenario. […]

3 Steps to Fast Tracking Clinical Supply Utilization Savings

November 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Every chief financial officer at every health system wants more savings from their supply chain organization and even more so today with the challenge of inflation hitting our marketplace. Don’t be surprised when you are […]

Value Analysis Professionals: Our Time is Now…Are You Ready?

September 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

“There has never been a more perfect time for supply chain and value analysis professionals to fully engage in cost reduction.” If you are looking to make a big impact in reducing your organization’s bottom […]

Value Analysis Roundtable Discussion: Clinical Supply Utilization Opening Up Invisible Supply and Quality Optimization Opportunities

September 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

We are all looking for new supply chain expense savings beyond price and standardization to help our healthcare organizations weather this perfect storm (high inflation, high labor costs, and shrinking bottom line) we all are […]

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clinical supply utilization

Breakthrough Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Require More Than Just Incremental Change

Making a Difference with Savings Beyond Price Optimization

Incorporating Clinical Supply Utilization Management Into Value Analysis

Clinical Supply Utilization Management: The Gift that Keeps Giving Big Savings

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

Enhancing Your Contracting Strategy

3 Steps to Fast Tracking Clinical Supply Utilization Savings

Value Analysis Professionals: Our Time is Now…Are You Ready?

Value Analysis Roundtable Discussion: Clinical Supply Utilization Opening Up Invisible Supply and Quality Optimization Opportunities

Starting Your Own Clinical Supply Utilization Management Program

Clinical Supply Utilization Management: It’s Easy with the Right Analytics

If You Don’t See Big Clinical Supply Utilization Savings, Does That Mean They Aren’t There?

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