Providers, distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers are facing increasing costs and growing pressure to deliver increased value to patients and clients with less expense and less resources. Against this backdrop, supply chain has emerged as one of the critical areas where organizations can reduce expense and waste. However, to achieve results at the industry pace demanded, outside supply chain experts and innovative solutions are needed to optimize the complex and fragmented supply chain function. With the involvement of different parties that include manufacturers, insurance firms, hospitals, providers, group purchasing organizations (GPOs), and several regulatory agencies, and with each stakeholder having different views of the right medical product or service, the healthcare supply chain becomes a labyrinth.

"Demand Logic™ unifies predictive analytics with lean process re-engineering to decrease supply and labor costs while optimizing inventory and space"

As part of its core philosophy, RDA combines knowledge, experience, and technology to help its clients improve quality and reduce expenses across the end-to-end supply chain functions - spanning vendor selection, contracting, procurement, inventory, warehousing/distribution, logistics, and operations. The company not only identifies the fundamental factors that are critical to supply chain performance but also designs and provides experienced resources to implement needed solutions. Specifically, RDA’s clients achieve increased clinical satisfaction, reduced non-labor expenses, reduced inventory, optimized space, standardized and streamlined operations, and sustainable results. “We consistently deliver these benefits to our clients using a proven approach across our Performance Improvement, proprietary cloud-based inventory and space optimization solution—Demand Logic™, and Interim Management,” states Ron, founder and CEO of RDA.

Conquering Challenges through Performance Improvement

Organizations are hard-pressed to find talented resources to fill their project requirements in a short timeframe. RDA has a unique business model that has managing partners who leverage a network of highly-skilled subject matter experts (SMEs), with a minimum of 20 years of healthcare supply chain experience, to address its client’s needs. RDA utilizes these experienced SMEs to form Rapid Response Teams (RRT) as part of its Performance Improvement services. The RRTs are formed uniquely for each RDA client and are given a goal based on the client’s specific needs. Each RRT is led by an RDA Managing Partner to implement results at a rapid pace that doesn’t sacrifice sustainability. While other service providers are limited to identifying the problem areas, RDA goes a step farther to implement needed solutions rapidly.

RDA has developed over 30 supply chain best practices and guidelines that are used as needed to educate client’s staff. RDA’s best practices and guidelines cover the key supply chain elements revolving around data management, value analysis, contracting, procurement, inventory, warehousing/distribution, logistics, and operations.