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Materials Resource Management
Dear Business Associate:
The Materials Resource Management department is responsible for the supply chain continuum at the Detroit Medical Center. That continuum includes product standardization, acquisition, receipt and delivery.
Inquiries for Materials Resource Management Administration should be sent to:
[email protected]
The department is organized into the following functional areas:
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION /VALUE ANALYSIS/PROCUREMENT
- Coordination and oversight of value analysis and standardization of clinical supplies and equipment
- Analyzing supply chain work flow in clinical areas, developing and implementing process improvement
- Analyzing cost, clinical efficacy and overall cost performance of high cost medical supplies
- Ensuring products selected maintain levels of quality, safety, clinical efficacy, as well as total cost performance
- New product and technology request and review
- Development and enforcing compliance with procurement related policies
- Contract administration
- Contract negotiations and compliance monitoring
- Bids and proposal
- Vendor selection and compliance
- Pricing update and management
SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
- Liaison with Detroit Medical Center Information Services
- First-line support of the computer applications used in Procurement, Logistics Management and Accounts Payable
- End-user training for these applications
- Liaison with vendor community related to electronic commerce
- Regulatory compliance and monitoring
LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT – Materials and OR Supply Chain
- Replenishment of patient care supplies
- Print services and stand-alone copiers
- Formal receipt and delivery of all products
- Rental services of medical equipment
- Mail services
- Inventory consolidation
- Supply standardization
- Cost savings
- Service line efficiency
- Warehousing
- Supply chain initiatives
- Operational oversight of Medline Distribution Onsite Program
- Establishment of new PAR (Periodic Automatic Replenishment) locations
- Ongoing PAR optimization
- Inventory control and supply depots
| Title | Name |
|---|---|
| Market Director of Procurement and Supply Chain | Elizabeth Yost |
| Corporate Director of Systems Development and Financial Reporting | Matt Bagazinski |
| Supply Chain Administrator | Michelle Huff |
| Strategic Sourcing Specialist | Jon Rose |
| Financial Specialist | Delores Ewing |
| Supply Chain Director - Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital | John Bauer |
| Supply Chain Director - Children's Hospital of Michigan | D'Lisa Jones |
| Supply Chain Director - Sinai-Grace Hospital, Berry Surgery Center | Elizabeth Yost |
| Supply Chain Director - Detroit Receiving, Harper, Rehab Institute of Michigan | Tim Macdonald |
Vendor Setup Information
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