Supply Chain Consulting

Supply Chain Consulting is an expert-led service that facilitates a disciplined, data- and analytics-first approach to improving understanding and management of your supply chain. By working to identify and address data issues that impede analysis, our consultants deliver insight for better decisions, more streamlined processes, and less waste.

The service delivers data, findings, and an executive report with recommendations and strategic direction to guide timing and scope for your supply chain management journey.

The problem

From drugs and interventional supplies to general items like bandages and swabs, the cost of nearly every type of healthcare supply is increasing rapidly. The biggest challenge to effective management of these expenses? Fragmented supply chain processes, lack of data insight into improvement opportunities, and uncertainty about how to lower supply costs while preserving clinical quality and provider and staff engagement.

Our approach

Health Catalyst’s Supply Chain Consulting team brings deep experience and comprehensive operational and financial expertise to help your organization navigate the increasing complexity of supply chain activities. Typical engagements focus on providing:

• Data quality: Supply chain management is challenged by issues such as duplicate charge numbers for a single supply, redundant item codes, and incorrect pricing data.
• Comprehensive visibility: Managers need views of the foundational components of the supply chain—from pricing and procurement to utilization.
• Guidance for integration: Healthcare supply chain organizations are complex; they often struggle to find efficiencies from more connected, streamlined processes and technologies.

Working in these areas, we’re able to help client partners eliminate waste, trim costs, and deliver quality.

Benefits and components

• Disciplined, data-and analytics-first approach. Our consultants identify and target data issues that impede analysis, setting the stage for improvement, and active management.
• Deep expertise. Our team includes healthcare analytic, operational, financial, and clinical experts to help you understand, optimize, and integrate processes.
• Guidance to identify and realize opportunities. Working side by side with you, we drill into your data to identify total spend, usage variation, assess the impact of that variation, determine where to focus improvement efforts—and support the implementation of operational change.