Benefits
Collaborative Sourcing
DSSI consults with health care providers and the entire supply chain to identify new opportunities and maximize current connections.
- Access the largest network of health care providers in the country
- One implementation in the DSSI network allows opportunity for compounded growth
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 cost control through price matching.
- Price matching and discrepancy resolution ensure contracted prices, terms, and taxes are enforced on every invoice
- Allows for faster payment through automated billing & approval processes
- Provides invoice status visibility to see what is on hold, what has been released for payment, check information, etc.
- Catalog development and maintenance services
- Instant communication interface (news messages) to all
- Automates Resident Specific Invoices (specialty invoice automation with HIPAA compliance security)
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.
- Increases sales through facility purchasing compliance.
- Ensures contracted products are purchased through the site.
- DSSI works with your team to help you sole source your product category with each customer site.
- Allows better inventory management based on approved order guides set by provider customer
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.
- Provides facility and corporate level purchasing history reports to help identify trends and strategize sales.
- Ability to track on-system and off-system purchases and their impact on budget