We have experience working with NHS and Ambulance Trusts and understand the challenges being faced; GS1 standards, transparency and increasing pressure to improve efficiencies and reduce costs – all whilst offering the best care for patients, delivered in a safe and caring environment.
Our NHS Solution is a powerful, flexible, fully integrated system offering complete end-to-end supply chain management to meet all your demands, help you revolutionise the management your internal and external supply chains and ultimately the way your budget is spent. Poor consignment stock management and wastage will be a thing of the past.
Inventory planning
Our NHS Solution delivers a powerful set of planning tools as standard to ensure adequate advanced planning. Reliable and accessible information means you can take firm control of inventory planning both estimating demand and proposing the supply of stock by generating job, purchase, and transfer order suggestions. Provide a truly proactive service, agreeing with clinicians what is needed and ensuring supplies are delivered at point of use.
For example, see future demand against scheduled operations and use this information to ensure required items and operating kits are readily available. Reduce the risk of stock outs, as well as overstocking and significant wastage – limiting any operations being postponed.
Supply Chain & Inventory Management
The Inventory Management module is a key part of our NHS Solution. Unlimited information can be held against any inventory item to meet specific NHS hospital needs, including costs, quantities, and on-hand min/max requirements per specific location. The primary function is to manage the flow of items from incoming purchase orders to a central holding ‘warehouse’ location within the hospital before being receipted onto wards or allocated where stock levels are low. By using GS1 barcodes and scanners with the system, the full lifecycle of all items, used or unused and individual cost can be recorded and stored for future reference.
NHS eRequisition Software
A unique web-based requisition and purchase order system specifically for NHS Hospitals. By having a central eRequisition system, and the ability to interface to central purchasing catalogues, individual hospitals can take control of their spending and cut costs by bulk purchasing, minimising stock levels and using consolidated purchase ordering for specific departments and wards.
Management have real-time, live dashboards, where they can analyse spend. Orders can be assigned to specific cost centres and approval routing managed using Epicor BPM. Users can follow orders seamlessly around the system, receiving notifications, with comments attached and delivery/promise dates updated.
Key benefits
“Epaccsys, an accredited GS1 Software and services provider will implement Epicor ERP software, enabling the NHS Trust to vastly improve the tracking and management of all inventory throughout the hospital. Fundamentally this will have great benefit to staff and patients by improving the availability of items and at the same time reducing costs associated with holding stock for the Trust.”
Rob Way, Commercial Services System & Programme Lead, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
