What Is Intra-Company Logistics?
Healthcare is changing. Healthcare organizations are growing and care continues to expand outside of the four walls of the hospital. This growth provides more capacity to utilize scale to create healthcare companies that are better functioning, smarter organizations. Intra-company logistics, or healthcare transportation—the enterprise-wide movement of physical materials, such as blood and other specimens, pharmaceuticals, supplies, equipment, print, mail and more—is the logistical layer that enables the clinical layer to function most efficiently and effectively. It is the foundation of the healthcare supply chain. Every health system needs it for its clinical operations to function.
+ The Historical Medical Courier OptionHistorically, intra-company logistics has been viewed in a limited manner as traditional courier services. Viewed this way, it has not been treated as the strategic asset that it has the potential to be. The result has been inconsistent, departmentally-managed transportation operations with varying levels of service and a lack of system-wide integration that can lead to missed opportunities for generating greater value across your entire organization.
+ Best Practice Intra-Company Logistics
MedSpeed intra-company logistics is a thoughtfully-designed, customized and planned solution for physically integrating and connecting health systems through the strategic, intra-company delivery of physical materials. This best practice logistical framework is based upon a process model that includes:
- Employed drivers who are part of a strong, clear culture that drives performance.
- A corporate quality program, underscored by Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, to monitor and measure the quality of operations.
- A healthcare-focused technology platform that ensures route optimization, complete chain of custody and data maximization for improved visibility, transparency and smarter decision-making.
- A two-fold philosophy for value creation that includes value achieved directly from transportation operations, plus value created by using transportation as an asset to drive savings on the 99.9+% of expenditures outside of transportation but still impacted by it.
