Ordering

Tailor made ordering solutions

Bunzl Healthcare offers its customers the facility of custom-made ordering packages to meet the individual needs of each healthcare facility. We provide a variety of both standard and bespoke order and invoice integration solutions for the benefit of our customers:

'Just in Time' (JIT) solutions

We supply, install and support the technology to allow the customer to run and maintain their inventory effectively. JIT ordering and distribution systems have the objective of reducing costs through running minimum inventory. This is achieved through daily supplier deliveries, significantly reducing inventory.

What are the advantages of the JIT service?

• Ordering process takes minutes
• Releases storage space
• Product stays in date
• Assurance of product availability
• Eradicates emergency orders
• Consolidated invoice on disk by cost centre or expense code
• Expenditure by week or month
• Reduction in administration costs
• Complete stock management

Our "Just in Time" proposal:

• Daily deliveries
• Stock rationalisation
• Product delivered direct to department within 24 hours
• Faster introduction of new improved lines
• Reduced costs
• Case quantities or single items

Bar coding systems

Bunzl Healthcare works closely with the national leading suppliers in the barcode technology industry. The use of bar coding, GS1 identification systems and materials management technology helps suppliers to maintain stock levels and re-order stock using hand-held scanners. The direct links between the data capture system and the supplier’s ordering system reduces supply chain time and costs, and minimises ordering errors. These systems also:

• Release a significant amount of Nursing time back into the ward
• Simplify ordering - the data is inputted direct to the supplier via a hand-held barcode reader

E-commerce & Order management gateways

Bunzl Healthcare have established key partnerships with market-leading order systems gateways to offer a variety of ordering options for all our customers.

GHX (Global Healthcare Exchange)

GHX Supply Chain Services help healthcare buyers and suppliers save time and money through technology that synchronises and automates business processes, ensuring accurate contract pricing, and enabling more business to take place electronically. GHX offers a range of products and services for healthcare facilities, which allow our customers to to:

• Transact with their key trading partners through a single connection point
• Synchronise their product data with that of their chosen suppliers
• Enable greater functionality from existing systems (MMIS or ERP)
• Automate and streamline requisitioning and order management processes

From purchase order to invoice, GHX offers a complete package of tools for improving supply chain efficiency.

WebConnect

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) has created WebConnect, a tool that enables healthcare providers to create online purchase orders and submit them electronically. Using Internet access and a simple registration, buyers are able to order products online (also referred to as e-commerce) from multiple suppliers.

Using WebConnect, buyers search for and locate products from the GHX AllSource™ Content Repository. The data in AllSource is verified and continuously updated by suppliers, providing buyers with the most accurate product data in the industry. Buyers can search for products by part number, supplier name and/or keyword. Once selected, products are held in an online cart and then transferred into a purchase order. The purchase order can be electronically submitted and approved in one step by pre-approved buyers, speeding the approval process.

EDI Ordering

The need to exchange important financial information (such as a purchase orders or invoices) within the healthcare marketplace is critical to the effectiveness of the product supply chain. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) ordering systems allow the exchange of business data from one organisation’s computer application to the computer application of a trading partner/customer. The system improves the accuracy of transmitting these files by eliminating the re-keying of data, and increases data quality by agreeing product codes, prices and location codes in advance. EDI systems also help cement customer/supplier partnerships by reducing the supply chain costs associated with manual processing of orders and invoices. There are no barriers to the use of electronic data interchange systems. Our technical team at Bunzl Healthcare will help integrate a bespoke system to provide the customer with the following benefits:

• Remove the need for document re-keying
• Eliminate Paper documents
• Reduce product lead times and stockholding
• Better customer service
• Save time and expense

Ordering your products could not be easier

For those customers that prefer the traditional routes of ordering our tele sales teams are waiting to take your order and offer advice when needed.

We like to keep processes simple where possible – All general small orders can be placed:

• By phone,
• fax or
• email

From receipt of a customer order to the delivery of service at the patient bedside, we are dedicated to supporting the supplier and clinical professional in their goal of providing excellent patient care.