Five ways your distributor can work for you
Hospital Materials Management, July 1, 2008
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Times are certainly tough for today’s hospitals. Operating margins vary, and certain categories perform better than others, but no one has it easy. Supply chain executives face unrelenting pressure to reduce costs that have already been squeezed, find cheaper products that are already cheaper than the ones they replaced, pay less for contract services, and, of course, run their operation more efficiently. For many veterans, this isn’t the same patient- and clinician-centered environment they experienced years ago.
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