Supply Chain Cost Management ProgramsThe Medline Difference
Hospitals are under more cost pressure than ever before. A confluence of market dynamics led by reduced reimbursement continues to drive down operating margins. Yet at the same time, the drive for cost containment has created opportunities for health care institutions to improve their supply chain management, including more efficient ways to purchase supplies, streamline logistics and improve service to the end user.
As a leading health care supply company, we believe we can perform these services better and more successfully than any other company in the health care supply industry. We offer a comprehensive choice of cost management programs ranging from a simple guaranteed savings program to a service center where we assume many of your materials management responsibilities. Our programs cover the health care continuum including hospitals, nursing homes, surgery centers, physician offices and home care agencies.
What Sets Medline Apart?
We clearly have benefits that distinguish us from our competition and have helped us become a leading provider of cost management programs. Some of these include:
Highly Quantitative Savings Approach to Supply Chain Management.
Financially, irrefutable savings is offered in every Medline program. We measure our progress with quantitative results.
Comprehensive Sales Representation
A 700 person sales force plus a growing staff of product specialists and clinicians provides outstanding
customer service for individual facilities, covering both urban and rural territories.
Consulting and Management Services
We offer a comprehensive array of services and tools that enable you to enhance your supply chain and internal operations, including consulting services, utilization and standardization, business tools/enhanced reporting and clinical support and resources.
Privately Held
Promotes quick and flexible decision making and single-minded focus on the customer (vs. a public company who must consider stockholder impact when making decisions).
Financial strength – enables us flexibility in developing solutions for our customers (i.e., payment terms, service center projects, loans, etc.).