Strategic Sourcing Improves Visibility of Hospital Supply Chain

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McKesson Strategic Supply SourcingFormulary-Mana
ged Purchasing that Imitates the Ease of Consumer
Online Shopping
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Master Your Hospital Supply Chain Spend

• McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing, powered by
  Amazon Web ServicesTM and a supply chain
  artificial intelligence engine, promotes new
  savings through formulary-based procurement
  through a robust marketplace solution that
  imitates the ease of consumer online shopping
• The following benefits may be achieved
• Enforced defined formulary of your organization
• Decreased spend leakage in real-time and a
  capture of the entire supply spend
• High-cost PPI management
• Enhanced contract compliance and opportunity to
  optimize tier levels for potential cost-savings
• Improved data quality

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Master Your Hospital Supply Chain Spend

• The Marketplace
• The health care systems virtual item master
  (VIM) exchanges information with an e-commerce
  marketplace, an artificial intelligence (AI)
  engine that contains the industry data set.
• The marketplace provides full
• e-commerce services to hundreds of vendors and
  transaction sets, and contains more than 1.7
  million items including photos and full-length
  product descriptions.

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McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing

• Features
• ecommerce marketplace access through your own
  private virtual item master (VIM) powered by
  Amazon Web Services
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine that
  normalizes and cleanses item file of disparate
  descriptions
• Integration and compatibility with entire
  hospital supply chain spend
• Virtual abundance of attributions and naming
  conventions with functionally similar and
  equivalent product identification
• Facility-level support with organizational
  roll-up to central virtual item master
• Agnostic solution that works with most materials
  management information (MMIS) solution systems,
  not just the McKesson supply chain solution

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About McKesson

• McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on
  the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and
  information technology company dedicated to
  making the business of healthcare run better. We
  partner with payers, hospitals, physician
  offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and
  others across the spectrum of care to build
  healthier organizations that deliver better care
  to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its
  customers improve their financial, operational,
  and clinical performance with solutions that
  include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical
  supply management, healthcare information
  technology, and business and clinical services.
  For more information, visit http//www.mckesson.co
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• For more information about McKesson hospital
  supply chain solutions, visit our website.