The NHS in the UK is an enormous organisation with a high political profile from a patient care point of view. From a practical perspective however, in terms of its procurement activities, its fundamental components are the 441 NHS Trusts that manage the day to day functions of purchasing goods and services. Enabling the Trusts to perform these functions effectively and efficiently whether through collaboration with other Trusts or alone will deliver substantial savings.
In our experience although the market structure is relatively complex there are a number of common underlying themes that can be drawn into a generic requirements specification to deliver substantial savings.
In partnership with Health Logistics.co.uk our solution ProcuraVero is a unique solution tailored to the NHS which will deliver state-of-the art, web-based NHS eClass spend analysis and catalogue & contract management solutions that work interactively for the benefit of Trusts and central procurement hubs.
In particular the solution will deliver:
- Benefits Tracking and Spend Analysis.
Providing a single source of information to enable the prioritisation of sourcing activity, improved transparency of spend, tracking of savings and detailed supporting analysis by category, Trust, supplier, item and price. - Catalogue Management and Demand Capture.
Providing a single source of truth through a centrally controlled catalogue management solution that fully complements existing Trust systems and provides direct benefit to procurement managers. The solution can be used directly for electronic demand capture at the point of requisition, or it can be used to supplement existing electronic requisitioning systems in Trusts by providing the correct supplier managed catalogue and price data to the local system in the correct format for that system. - Contract Management.
Pro-actively manage contracts and expiry dates, pricing structures, etc. Critically, the contract management functionality can hold multiple prices per supplier and per item to enable data to be maintained for National, CPH and Trust level contracts with all appropriate formatting and filtering to ensure that each Trust only sees within its own local system the correct combination of supplier, item and price for that specific Trust.
Importantly ProcuraVero can be implemented on a zero cost option.