Automating the Hospital Supply Chain

Hospitals spend billions of dollars each year ordering medical supplies required for medical procedures. But the sad fact is that a lack of efficiency within the hospital supply chain also creates billions of dollars in excess costs every year. Fortunately automating a hospital’s supply chain will simultaneously cut costs and make hospital supplies more easily replenished. Why Automating the Supply Chain Is …

Hospital HR: Hiring and Onboarding New Physicians

Working in hospital hr is no easy job. Hospitals have so many employees, that it can be hard to keep up with. Especially those employees trying to get all of their documentation in for hiring/onboarding such as nurses, nurse practitioners, essentially everyone with some kind of license, and especially physicians. Physicians can sometimes get lost in the shuffle during hiring/onboarding because the …

Cross-Module Issues Hindering Hospital Material Transfer?

Hospitals everywhere share the responsibility for the health of their patients among several internal and even external units. Often, providing the best care possible requires the transfer of hospital material from one inventory location to another, between hospital units, from one hospital to another or even between a research facility and a hospital in as timely a manner as possible. Each …

PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management: A Useful Tool with Vulnerabilities to Fix

PeopleSoft ERP software is used by over 1/2 of the Fortune 500 companies and by many others worldwide as well, yet it still has it’s share of vulnerabilities. Because the applications are integrated over all of the business activities across departments, everyone works with the same data and processes. No more information silos! And, when implemented, companies use it to improve …

With Proper ERP Implementation, Hospital Support Costs Can be Reduced!

70% of the Fortune 500 either already have ERP or are planning to install it soon. The ERP marketplace is now expanding into the under $250 million size companies. The ERP premise is to help a company achieve the maximum results from a company wide database that helps the supply chain in becoming more effective, the Human Resource team in increasing their impact on performance, …

PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 10: Making Realtime Management Easier

Oracle has once again delivered with their new mobile experience-centric program for PeopleSoft Financials and People Supply Chain Management. This time, an improved user experience has been the focus within PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 10. Updates to an already sleek and intuitive UI provides an interface that is both responsive and interactive across mobile platforms such as smartphones, tablets, and …

PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management: Saving Lives & Making Hospital Management Easier

Inventory management is rarely a life and death issue. But, it is in hospital management. This is perhaps the primary reason so many health care management teams turn to PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management.  Prioritizing Purchase Orders That Really Matter In a hospital or clinic, high-priority requisitions may literally be a matter of life and death. Risk to patients is significantly increased when the …

Hospital HR: Solving Common Problems with PeopleSoft Finesse

Hospital HR departments seem to have a perpetually increasing scope of responsibility. From managing layers of employee education, benefits and incentive programs to the daily (or hourly) need to adjust staffing levels, the responsibilities seem endless.  And often, the tools that are meant to simplify work processes seem maddeningly complicated when you’re actually working with them. For example, PeopleSoft Human Capital …

Tips to Get More From Your Investment in PeopleSoft Financial Management

Many PeopleSoft hospital clients bemoan the complexity of the software and worry that they are not getting maximum benefit from its features.  While it’s true the software is robust and multifaceted, and few institutions use all of the available features, just a little education goes a long way toward maximizing your investment. For today, consider these few tips to make PeopleSoft Financial …