SourcePlus PurchaseConnection: Advanced Supply Chain Management Solution

Maximize Your Supply Chain Efficiency

For surgical facilities, extensive cost saving opportunities lie in the extension of supply chain management tools and techniques at the point of care, completing the link between demand and supply chain. Because inventory availability and management is so critical to your business, SourceMedical offers a web-based supply chain solution that helps simplify the ordering process, speeds product availability, improves inventory levels, and reduces labor and other costs.

Designed exclusively for ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals and practices, SourcePlus PurchaseConnection maximizes the supply chain from manufacturer – to distributor – to surgical facility.

By utilizing the Internet as a communication and procurement medium, PurchaseConnection provides access to collaborative online order management tools. It can be accessed anywhere and meets the complete material management needs of facilities looking for complete visibility into your supply chain, yet affordable solution, with low implementation and maintenance impact to the facility.

Order Management Solutions:

SourcePlus PurchaseConnection is a secure web based transaction portal comprised of a number of order management tools. It provides a central point of visibility into your supply chain. Using Purchase Connection’s infrastructure to connect multiple suppliers using a single connection point, allows participating vendors and customers to work more efficiently together. Purchasing Managers will quickly see how the increased automation will help with early discrepancy solution and better decision-making.

Purchase Order Management

By submitting your purchase orders to participating vendors within the PurchaseConnection Portal, you can streamline your ordering process while improving the speed and accuracy. The PurchaseConnection portal will electronically route the purchase orders to the appropriate vendors. This will allow more time to focus on day-to-day activities versus the manual method of contacting each vendor to submit your orders.

Purchase Order Confirmations

The PurchaseConnection portal provides instant access to order confirmations, expected ship dates, backorders, items on hold, rejected products and price discrepancies. The portal gives the user a central point to manage order confirmations and order discrepancies.

Electronic Invoicing

Participating vendors can transmit a copy of your invoices directly into the PurchaseConnection portal. This information can then be matched against your purchase orders and electronic confirmations. Purchasing Managers will quickly see and be able to manage discrepancies on the vendor’s invoice.

SourcePlus PurchaseConnection: An Advanced eProcurement Portal

SourcePlus PurchaseConnection:

• Reduces supply inventory levels
• Increases accuracy around the ordering to pay process
• Saves staff time Increases service levels throughout the facility
• Automates a significant portion of procurement activities
• Removes manual, non-value added activities around managing supplies

With SourcePlus PurchaseConnection, surgical facilities will be able to submit and confirm orders, as well as receive supply and pricing updates automatically. The solution seamlessly integrates with Vision, AdvantX and SurgiSource applications to allow ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals and practices to easily connect to their distributors, manufacturers and group purchasing organizations.