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Featured Case Studies

C.R. Bard Doubles Productivity by Leveraging e-Commerce Tools

By partnering with GHX to drive improved utilization within its customer base, C.R. Bard processes more high-quality, accurate electronic orders, reducing resources required to manually correct errors downstream.
Champlain Health Supply Services Collaborates to Achieve Supply Chain Savings

Using GHX consulting services and products, Champlain Health Supply Services (CHSS) transformed its supply chain, putting it on track to meet a goal to achieve $32 million in supply chain cost savings over a 10-year period.
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) Transforms Supply Chain

Using GHX consulting services and products, HHC transformed its supply chain into a strategic asset, cutting costs, improving operational performance, and achieving a $14 million annual savings goal

Healthcare Providers

Champlain Health Supply Services Collaborates to Achieve Supply Chain Savings Using GHX consulting services and products, Champlain Health Supply Services (CHSS) transformed its supply chain, putting it on track to meet a goal to achieve $32 million in supply chain cost savings over a 10-year period.
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) Transforms Supply Chain Using GHX consulting services and products, HHC transformed its supply chain into a strategic asset, cutting costs, improving operational performance, and achieving a $14 million annual savings goal
Data Integrity, Visibility and Collaboration Enable Hackensack University Medical Center to Control Spend HUMC's approach to cost containment in its procure-to-pay processes included new technology, process changes and an effort to drive collaboration among clinicians, departments, its GPO and suppliers.
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) Aligns to Achieve Supply Chain Vision “GHX gave us the tools we needed in supply chain to get the cost savings we were being asked to achieve…more than $14 million in savings.”
Saratoga Hospital Case Study With GHX OnDemand AP, Saratoga Hospital was able to eliminate the need for manual data entry and to accelerate invoice approvals.
Scottsdale Healthcare Takes Exchange Utilization to the Next Level Scottsdale Healthcare engaged GHX Business Solutions in a trading partner acceleration project to help it convert 90 percent of its purchase order lines to electronic over a 90-day period.
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System Takes “Major Leap” in Contract Management Using CCXpert, Memorial Hermann was able to increase total contracts loaded to GHX from 373 to 904 and increase the dollar value ordered through GHX from $3.2 million to $5.2 million.
Torrance Memorial Medical Center Takes Proactive Approach to Contract Management GHX Business Solutions helped Torrance Memorial align its purchase order-related spend to its GPO contracts, ensuring that they knew the contract and the pricing tier they were accessing.
BJC HealthCare GS1 Standards Implementation Case Study GHX enabled BJC to successfully implement global data standards to improve patient safety and supply chain efficiency ahead of the healthcare industry-established GLN and GTIN sunrise dates.
Woman's Hospital Case Study Woman’s Hospital selected GHX due to the extensive suite of products offered to automate manual supply chain processes and improve contract management.

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Healthcare Suppliers

Smith & Nephew Smith & Nephew selected GHX to help meet their growing need to automate more of their manual processes and support their sales force with today’s technology.
Energizer Channel Intelligence dramatically reduced the time and resources that Energizer must allocate to its distributor and GPO management processes.
Advanced Bionics GHX's integrated, custom solution provides Advanced Bionic’s executives an immediate and accurate view into daily sales activities, and enables well-informed business decisions.
C.R. Bard Doubles Productivity by Leveraging e-Commerce Tools By partnering with GHX to drive improved utilization within its customer base, C.R. Bard processes more high-quality, accurate electronic orders, reducing resources required to manually correct errors downstream.
Haemonetics Meets Demand and Enhances Customer Satisfaction Without Increasing Costs Partnering with GHX has allowed Haemonetics to do what some say is impossible: Grow its business, while reducing operating expenses and improving customers’ satisfaction and experience.
Covidien Canada Expands EDI Capabilities, Improves Accuracy and Customer Service GHX is the bridge between Covidien Canada and its customers, consolidating various electronic document formats submitted by customers into a single EDI channel that integrates with Covidien’s ERP system.
Siemens Takes Holistic Approach to Global Data Standards Siemens chose the GHX Health ConneXion™ data pool as its point of entry into the GDSN and worked closely with the GHX team to meet all attribute requirements for both GDSN and various government authorities.
Siemens Cuts Costs, Gains Visibility into Distributor Rebate and Chargeback Process With greater visibility into distributor data, Siemens has improved the rebate and chargeback error rate by 10 percent, saving the company more than a million dollars over the course of two years.
SCA Case Study SCA partnered with GHX Market Intelligence to obtain accurate, reliable and detailed market intelligence data on which to base its growth strategy.

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Off-contract, maverick spend Contract overpayments Financial non-compliance Trading partner connections Low contract compliance Inaccurate item master data Price inaccuracy; price validation Invoice exceptions	Misaligned contracts Manual contract reconciliation Non-file spend Slow invoice approval, late payments Contract underutilization Invoice-to-order discrepancies Misaligned product descriptions Inability to generate EDI	High order error rates Costly inventory audits Increasing DSOs Visibility to revenue growth path Unconsolidated order channels Rebate / chargeback discrepancies Lack of competitive intelligence Conformance with global standards	Manual order processing Error-prone invoicing Limited price exception visibility Recalled field inventory Lost/expired field inventory Incorrect commission payments Unconsolidated MDM processes	Healthcare reform Escalating supply chain costs Technology adoption Supplier-provider collaboration Global standards adoption

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