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Strategic Value Analysis® in Healthcare
Did You Know...?
That Value Analysis Was Developed Back In the 1940's After World War II as a Way to Find Lower Cost but Higher Quality Alternative products and methods. This was Due to the Lack of Material Resources At The End of The War.
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New Strategies, Training, Tactics and Tools are Required to Dig Deeper and Broader for the Next Generation of Supply Chain Savings...
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The Answer Is Yes! If You Want To Breakthrough The Savings Barriers And Roadblocks That You Are Experiencing Today!
While value analysis is still the best methodology for you to evaluate and select the products, services and technologies for your healthcare organization, we have found after one year’s research that value analysis is deficient and wanting in measuring waste, variations and defects within these same categories of purchase. Therefore, since “the times are a changing” SVAH’s value analysis methodology must change too to keep pace with our rapidly changing healthcare environment.
As an illustration, the current tools of value analysis will not enable you to determine if your surgeons are utilizing the appropriate pacemakers that are medically indicated. However, sigma, or standard deviation will tell you how much variability there is within a group of pacemakers. With your surgeon’s agreement you can set a standard that can be easily measured for compliance. In our opinion, without these advanced tools and techniques of LEAN Six Sigma being amalgamated with value analysis methods and practices it will be almost impossible for hospitals, systems and IDNs to manage the utilization of their medical technologies as they become more complex now -- and in years to come.
"... the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised" Mikel Harry and Richard Schroeder
Six Sigma: The BREAKTHROUGH Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top CorporationsHealthcare Value Analysis Has Always Been Evolving
You might think that value analysis was cemented in a fixed set of rules that couldn’t be broken, altered or changed, but that’s not the case. Since its creation in the 1940s by Larry Miles the value analysis methodology has evolved almost every decade when value analysis practitioners discovered new strategies, tactics, tools, techniques or swiped them from other disciplines to modernize Larry’s value analysis model.
With this evolution in mind, we too have restructured and rationalized our successful Strategic Value Analysis® System to include the proven LEAN Six Sigma principles with our new Supply Six Sigma® System. In doing so, we now can offer to healthcare organizations the cost and quality training and coaching to optimize their supply chain savings that won’t leave the job of supply chain management only half done!
"Six Sigma has spread like wildfire across the company and its transforming everything we do." Jack Welch, CEO, GE
Business Week special report
June 8, 1998Supply Six Sigma™: The Missing Link
I call Supply Six Sigma™ the “missing link” that has been absent in the value analysis methodology that will supercharge your supply chain savings performance. This is because Supply Six Sigma™ focuses on the study of function which is the basis or reason for the success of value analysis. “The Supply Six Sigma™ Way” is also centered on the waste, variation and defects in the products, services, and technologies that you are purchasing and the processes that you are employing to store, deliver, and distribute them.
The best argument we can make to convince you that Supply Six Sigma™ isn’t just another fad, craze or in-thing is that there is very little downside. We understand that healthcare organizations have tried other savings and quality improvement methodologies in the past only to see them fail. So, it’s not surprising that many Supply Chain Professionals will be skeptical about the new Supply Six Sigma™ System. However, since we have been adding the LEAN Six Sigma processes to our current Strategic Value Analysis® System, over the last year, our clients are telling us the training and education offered by SVAH alone has greatly enhance their savings and quality skills.
The second-best argument for getting involved in the Supply Six Sigma™ movement is that the upside is enormous. By using Supply Six Sigma™ in your own healthcare organization our empirical data demonstrates that you can:
What Can SVAH's Supply Six Sigma Training, Software and Coaching Systems Do For You?
GROW REVENUES
CUT COST
REDUCE WASTE
IMPROVE QUALITY
ELIMINATE DEFECTS
INCREASE SPEED
IMPROVE DELIVERY TIME
REDUCE INVENTORIES
ELIMINATE VARIATIONS
INCREASE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Best of all, Supply Six Sigma™ will make your job a whole lot easier, more fun and more hassle free because you will get rid of the waste and inefficiency in your supply chain – which will save you time and resources and make your work more meaningful.
"Six Sigma is arguably the most important business and industry initiative that has involved statistical thinking and methods." Ronald D. Snee
"Impact of Six Sigma on Quality Engineering"
Quality Engineering Volume 12, Number 3, 2000Managing Functions, Waste, Variations, And Defects
The philosophy, principles and practices of Supply Six Sigma™ are all centered on managing the functions, waste, variations and defects in your supply chain. A defect is anything that doesn’t meet your customer’s requirements, while a variation is a deviation (as in the mathematical term standard deviation) from your customer’s requirements.
Case in point: One of our clients has performed a functional analysis on their orthopedic implants and has reduced their surgeon’s requirements down to what is absolutely positively medically indicated. They also were able to persuade their surgeons to agree on sets of implants that would be their standard. This decision enables our client to measure their surgeons’ variation to requirements or sigma levels (employing the tool of standard deviation). My client was also able to eliminate defects in their surgeon’s orthopedic implant process, such as, cases starting late, instruments not being available on time and staff shortages.
As this example clearly points out by utilizing “The Supply Six Sigma™ Way” our client left no savings or quality improvements untouched in their orthopedic implant products or processes. On the other hand, if our client only performed a functional analysis, as you can see, they would have left the job only half done!
Just as we think we’ve generated the last dollar of profit out of a business, we uncover new ways to harvest cash as we reduce cycle times, lower inventories, increase output, and reduce scrap. The results are better and more competitively priced products, more satisfied customers who give us more business, and improved cash flow.” --Larry Bossidy, CEO, AlliedSignal
Quality, Speed and Low Cost – TOGETHER!
One of the new Supply Six Sigma™ tenets is that Supply chain Professionals need to latch onto to face their new cost and quality challenges over the next few years is to learn to DO MORE WITH LESS. We can teach you how to do this by having quality, speed and low cost together, built into your supply value analysis program.
Why? When your customers order a product, service or technology, they want it delivered as quickly as possible and on time (speed), with no errors (high quality), and at the lowest possible cost (low cost).
Supply chain processes that make a lot of errors (what your customers don’t want or need) can not keep up its speed. A process that works slowly (beginning to end) is prone to errors (low quality). You have to do things that create process speed (meaning “eliminate delays) if you want to achieve the highest levels of quality. Low quality and slow speed are what make processes, services and products – expensive.
Quality, speed and low cost together, can only be achieved, if and when, you decide to reinvent what you have been doing for the last 7, 9 or even 21 years related to value analysis. It will require new strategies, tactics, tools, training and techniques to do so to dig deeper and broader for your supply chain savings. Let us show you the way!
“The [Six Sigma] Breakthrough Strategy gives new structure to the tools we already had.”
Mike Hart, Black Belt Engineer, Polaroid
Let The Supply Six Sigma™ System Set You FREE!
I haven’t yet met a supply chain professional who doesn’t tell me about being overworked, overwhelmed and understaffed. The demands on Supply Chain Professionals have most definitely increased as resources decrease. Daily duties, from value analysis to disaster planning to inventorying, take up more time than you have – and that’s saying nothing of the sales meetings, report writing and inevitable emergencies that also demand your attention.
The secret to crawling out from under those mountains of paperwork (otherwise know as drudgery!) is to look to new cost and quality systems like Supply Six Sigma™ that can streamline your processes, speed up workflow, eliminate errors, smooth out variations, automate all of your systems and attack your cost drivers with scientific precision.
Best of all, Supply Six Sigma™ will give you back the time, resources and control that you need to fulfill your supply chain management duties effortlessly and effectively. More importantly, you now have the power to get out from under the mountains of paper work and focus on the things you can control!
FREE Supply Savings Score Card…could answer all your questions!
If you have been searching for new, innovative savings solutions – beyond price – then your next step is to complete our “no cost, no obligation” Supply Savings Scorecard ($1,500 value), which will identify your hard to find savings opportunities. You’ll get our analysis within 48 hours!!
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