McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing™

Formulary-Managed Purchasing that Imitates the Ease of Consumer Online Shopping

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• McKesson Strategic Supply Sourcing™, powered

by Amazon Web ServicesTM and a supply chain

artificial intelligence engine, promotes new

savings through formulary-based procurement

through a robust marketplace solution that

imitates the ease of consumer online shopping

• The following benefits may be achieved:

– Enforced defined formulary of your organization

– Decreased spend leakage in real-time and a capture

of the entire supply spend

– High-cost PPI management

– Enhanced contract compliance and opportunity to

optimize tier levels for potential cost-savings

– Improved data quality

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The Marketplace The health care system’s virtual item

master (VIM) exchanges information

with an e-commerce marketplace, an

artificial intelligence (AI) engine that

contains the industry data set.

The marketplace provides full

e-commerce services to hundreds of

vendors and transaction sets, and

contains more than 1.7 million items

including photos and full-length

product descriptions.

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Features

• ecommerce marketplace access through your own

private virtual item master (VIM) powered by Amazon Web

Services™

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine that normalizes and

cleanses item file of disparate descriptions

• Integration and compatibility with entire hospital supply

chain spend

• Virtual abundance of attributions and naming

conventions with functionally similar and equivalent

product identification

• Facility-level support with organizational roll-up to

central virtual item master

• Agnostic solution that works with most materials

management information (MMIS) solution systems, not

just the McKesson supply chain solution

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McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is a

healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to

making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers,

hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and

others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that

deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers

improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions

that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management,

healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For

more information, visit http://www.mckesson.com .

For more information about McKesson hospital supply chain solutions, visit

our website.

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