Everyone is quick to judge everything these days and value analysis as well as supply chain cost optimization opportunities are judged even harsher today than ever before. Many times, you see VA and Supply Chain Professionals shy away from presenting a clearly major savings opportunity because they just don’t want to hear the harsh rebukes from their key customers and stakeho...

Everyone likes it when they just made big savings happen with a better price, standardization of vendors, value analysis project, or consumption reduction. There is nothing better t...

What I really like about healthcare value analysis is its versatility in use in so many different aspects of products, services, technologies, and yes, even processes. Value analysis is all about the functional approach. When you focus on function first, all other attributes will fall into place, like price and quality as well as one of the most important aspects which is rel...

Welcome to the Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices Podcast! We have a very special episode today featuring a guest who is a true veteran of the Value Analysis space. Joining us is Stephen Kinsella, President of Data Leverage Group and the innovator behind VAMS (Value Analysis Management Software)—a name many of you know well. Steve and I have b...

You just found a major savings opportunity that is ripe for picking, now what? In a perfect world, especially in the world where products transcend to multiple departments and multiple hospitals in a system, the easy and sure thing ...