Benefits
Collaborative Sourcing
DSSI consults with health care providers and the entire supply chain to identify new opportunities and maximize current connections.
- Consults with you to identify which of your suppliers provide the greatest impact in sourcing all spend categories.
- Provides instant access to hundreds of major and local suppliers.
Procure-to-Pay Automation
DSSI hosts and maintains an electronic solution to automate and optimize purchasing and pharmacy processes, resulting in increased efficiencies, lower transaction costs, and ensured contract pricing.
- Provides specific functionality and processes to automate your complete workflow, including: your suppliers, product order guides, contract pricing, business rules, procedures, and approval processing.
- Requires no hosting or additional technical resource costs - system is hosted and maintained by DSSI.
- Supports multiple integration types to support specific IT capabilities.
- Provides consulting and training services to help you implement your customized automation system.
- Ensure contracted prices, terms, and taxes are enforced on every invoice through price matching and discrepancy resolution.
- Provides procurement process automation savings - no paper invoices to manage and track.
Compliance Management
DSSI helps to increase purchasing compliance by providing tools and processes that ensure purchasing control. Order guide management and usage tracking help to identify purchasing trends and provide the data needed to ensure contracted products are purchased.
- Provides purchasing tracking to identify on/off-system spending to hold facilities accountable to contracts.
- Allows for communication with your facilities via the DSSI system so you can encourage your facilities to purchase contracted products from contracted suppliers.
- Provides purchasing control through approval, capital, and PO & invoice processes that best match your current workflow.
Business Intelligence
DSSI provides budget control, compliance, pharmacy, and manufacturer data that gives visibility into each category of spend to use in driving business decisions.
- Detects and alerts you of potential over-spend situations before orders are placed with budget control data.
- Provides facility and corporate level usage and purchasing history reports to help manage budget(s), determine product offerings, and negotiate lower pricing contracts.
- Provides Ad-hoc reports on request.
- Provides spend consulting based on on-DSSI and off-DSSI system spending to identify new savings and sourcing opportunities for you.