{"title":"Inventory management within the supply chain.","authors":"G L Kilty","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How can a company reduce its inventory costs as much as 35 to 50% of its current assets? The key to reducing inventory is to evaluate the entire supply chain, including an assessment of procurement, production, and distribution.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 4","pages":"18-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21755101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building strategic alliances: a case study.","authors":"S W Klunk, S Rose","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It takes much coordination, communication, patience, and persistence to build and manage supplier partnerships in order to lower total costs, reduce lead times, improve the quality of products, optimize inventories, and streamline administrative process. In the absence of the latest technology, it takes talented and enthusiastic team members who take pride in their work, who can think progressively, who can generate optimism in any situation, and who can maintain grace under pressure in order to be successful.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 4","pages":"40-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21755104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How measurement systems act as employee motivators.","authors":"G Plenert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A research project funded in part by APICS studied the relationship between measurement systems and how they motivate company performance. The research involved surveys, interviews, and a case project. This article will be a status update of the findings of this research.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 4","pages":"69-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21755109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information technology--the driver of change.","authors":"T Andriola","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Information technology (IT) is driving change throughout organizations--change in what we do, how we do it, with whom we do it, and the tools we use to get it done. The massive investment in IT is leading organizations to make fundamental changes in the way they run their businesses and ultimately the way they think about their businesses.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 2","pages":"52-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21479049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I-Power: a continuous improvement process that will blow your mind!","authors":"A B Collie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 2","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21479804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seven key elements of a successful implementation, and eight mistakes you will make anyway.","authors":"H A Hutchins","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I know your company is unique. No one else has to deal with the problems/products/processes/procedures/people that your have to deal with. I know that you have searched the literature and attended conferences hoping to find information relevant to your company. Well, this is your lucky day. This article has been designed specifically for the unique company.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 2","pages":"76-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21479053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment.","authors":"S H Williams","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article highlights Procter & Gamble's (P&G's) current success and future direction of creating consumer value and improving trading partner relationships through electronic data communication, including the future vision of the company's ultimate supply system and CPFR--Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 2","pages":"44-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21479810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The right stuff ... meeting your customer needs.","authors":"P Rubin, S Carrington","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Meeting (and exceeding) your customers' needs is a requirement for competing in the current business world. New tools and techniques must be employed to deal with the rapidly changing global environment. This article describes the success of a global supply chain integration project for a division of a large multinational corporation. A state-of-the-art ERP software package was implemented in conjunction with major process changes to improve the organization's ability to promise and deliver product to their customers.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 2","pages":"12-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21479805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customer service skills for survival.","authors":"L F McAtee","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As APICS practitioners, we all must share a common goal. How can we contribute to our company's success? Success can be measured in positive terms of market share, growth, profitability, return on investment, or some combination thereof. Each company must establish its own definition of success. For the purposes of this article, success will be equated to one word that we can all readily identify with: survival. What skills do we need to survive in the marketplace of the next millennium?</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 2","pages":"18-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21479806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customer-centered problem solving.","authors":"Q B Samelson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If there is no single best way to attract new customers and retain current customers, there is surely an easy way to lose them: fail to solve the problems that arise in nearly every buyer-supplier relationship, or solve them in an unsatisfactory manner. Yet, all too frequently, companies do just that. Either we deny that a problem exists, we exert all our efforts to pin the blame elsewhere, or we \"Band-Aid\" the problem instead of fixing it, almost guaranteeing that we will face it again and again.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 2","pages":"37-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21479809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}