Materials Management

Materials Management is the art of coordinating supply procurement so that inventory is always balanced; products are competitively priced and are delivered on time and completely fulfilled. Caretech complements these skill sets by providing products and product solutions that facilitate optimal use in the way the product is packaged, and more often, in the manner that the products perform. Frequently, the way in which a facility utilizes a product affects indirect expenditures that are unexpected. While incremental in their expense, unaddressed they cumulatively create significant budget variances. Packaged foods and medication as well as inferior diabetic, dialysis and incontinence supplies that do not deliver anticipated usage projections create budget overages when additional supplies are required to meet usage shortfalls. Side affects of using inferior products can lead to negative outcomes, which could increase the cost of certain supply expenses.

While how we provide procurement services is superior and competitively priced, we often highlight a particular product because of the optimized usage it delivers, or because of the way in which it protects the health of patients with superior processes or evaluative capabilities. Our Buy Smart, Work Smarter Workshop is in the development stage and it will operate on the premise that often what appears to be the “least expensive” supply can lead to devastatingly expensive consequences. Unfortunately, these consequences often carry the added quality of not being immediately obvious, so their affect can easily fester into quality challenges that are difficult to overcome.