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    <itunes:summary>Join Robert T. Yokl and his special guests as they discuss innovative methods, practices and tools that you can use to reduce your heatlhcare organization's supply chain spend to the lowest acceptable levels while improving quality in the process.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:59:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rising Product Costs Must Be Counter Balanced by Other Savings Strategies.  Find out how much more is really there for you to drive out of your supply chain.  Learn how to get your organization on-board to making the savings beyond price happen.  Learn how to quickly cover your price shortfalls for the short and long term bottom line results.  Find out the best bang for the buck strategies that you can employ today to save beyond price.]]></description>
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This podcast is geared towards helping you align your efforts and focus towards the supply chain savings opportunities that will give you the best bang for your buck as far as effort to return on investment.  We will highlight the major functions of supply chain savings and detail out all the major supply chain savings areas and why and where you need to focus your efforts for the highest supply chain savings return possible.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:28:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Supply Chain Hall of Fame is now a Reality!

Today we have a special interview with Jamie Kowalski, president, and Rick Dana Barlow, managing director, Bellwether League, Inc. which is a new organization that has as its mission to recognize the unsung supply chain heroes in our healthcare industry.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>11 Strategies to Save Big in 2008</title>
      <description><![CDATA[11 Strategies to Save Big in 2008 is a replay of a No Cost Webinar from January 9, 2008. The Webinar really got some great feedback from our registered participants that we thought we would open this one up for everyone to listen to. Hopefully we can help you kick off 2008 with some great strategies for you to use as a guide for making savings happen in the new year.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:41:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Much Savings is Enough to Make a Change?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In this Podcast we will discuss a daily challenge that Supply Chain Managers and Value Analysis Coordinators face, that is at what  point do we or don't we take action on a savings or savings opportunity.  Is it a dollar threshold? We will go over all the factors that are involved with deciding when we attack a savings and when we do not.  Plus, we will go through a few examples of hospitals and how they go about working with these challenges to achieve maximum results.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Special Bonus Podcast - Certified Value Analysis Leadership</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Certified Value Analysis Leadership Training Program
Talking Healthcare Value Analysis to a Whole New Level of Training]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:18:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Value Analysis 2.0 New Rules for Long Lasting Savings</title>
      <description><![CDATA[New Rules, Systems and Models for Long Lasting Savings Performance!
Isn’t It About Time You Re-Think, Re-New And Re-Invent Your Value Analysis Model To Do The Hard Work That Is Required In The 21st Century!
It’s been 21 years since value analysis 1.0 emerged as a best practice in healthcare.   This stratagem has led the way to some of the most important breakthroughs in supply chain cost management in the last decade.  Nevertheless, if you are really honest with yourself, it isn’t getting the job done in the 21st century.  
In years past, just putting together a value analysis committee or team(s) assured you of generating a variety of savings (mostly GPO savings) that just happened unimpeded and unrestricted.  I hope you have realized by now that the time has passed when you can make these easy and effortless savings continue to flow, surge and gush without changing how your value analysis committee or team(s) is organized, structured, selected, trained, measured, motivated and controlled.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:02:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Proven Business Model to Leading A Successful Supply Chain Savings Program-- This is a replay of a teleseminar that we recorded last year that was a special roundtable discussion with a university teaching client of ours supply chain management leadership.  We thought it would be great to bring this one back to the podcast this week and most importantly you will hear information from an organization that is talking the saving talk and walking the saving walk. 

This episode is packed with informative strategies, methods and tools that you and your healthcare organization can employ today.  We will show you how you too can enhance your supply saving strategies and systems while spending the least amount of time and money in the process.  Plus we will go over our key’s to becoming better organized to save which in turn will allow you to overcome the roadblocks and barriers that have been holding back savings in the past. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:53:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this week’s podcast we will CLEARLY define exactly what dashboards are and why we need them in the healthcare supply chain world.  We will go over some real examples of supply chain departments at hospitals that are utilizing dashboards for various functionality, cost management and performance monitoring.  We will also go over all the different types of dashboards to help you decide which would work best for you and your organization.  We will also make sure we go over the PROS AND CONS OF EACH to avoid making any mistakes that could hold back the effective use of these great supply chain management tools.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 15:40:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How to take your supply chain to the next level of benchmarking to further reduce your costs beyond price. In this week’s podcast episode we will address the current state of healthcare supply chain benchmarking and where it will be going in the next few years.  We will discuss what is being utilized now and where is MUST go in order for supply chain managers to truly be able to drill down into their supply chain organizations to weed out the savings beyond price that represents over 70 to 80 percent of all remaining savings opportunities for a healthcare organizations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:28:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[On this week's podcast we will discuss how supply chain professional's are in a catch 22 when it comes to reducing costs and improving their hospital and health system's bottom line.  Given the fact that you can only do so much with increasingly less time available in your work day you must now focus on the best and most efficient savings strategies that yield the most savings and quality improvement for your organization.  We will discuss the mindset and strategies that will help you overcome this challenge and increase your savings with less time expended and less wasted effort.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:31:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn how to grown and nurture your next generation of supply savings strategies, tools and methods to insure the future savings success of your supply chain operations.  This is a special replay of a teleseminar we had done a few months back which was one of our most popular programs to date.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:41:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Winning Data Strategies for Savings Success!  Savings is more challenging than it ever has been and with the realization that the low hanging fruit has already been picked, this podcast will show you how you can did deeper, be more organized in order to drive out those savings opportunities.  We will focus our Winning Data Strategies on how we will funnel down all of the purchases and operational information in our organization to develop automatic tools and methods that will assist you in finding the difficult savings opportunities while becoming more organized to save now and into the future.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[- Growing Your Savings Pipeline Before the Torrential Rain Begins Falling -- In this week’s podcast you will learn about how you need to develop your savings systems, methods and reporting proactively as opposed to trying to quickly and haphazardly reduce costs when a crisis arises. We will also share with you one of the most important developments that we have made in our consulting business that has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in savings for our customers which we believe you should develop for your supply chain organization too. What is now a core function of our consulting operations should be part of your everyday operations as well.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:48:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this podcast we will continue with Part Two of Successfully Selling Your Savings Ideas. You will learn what is most important about any particular product or service and where should hospital professionals be focusing their attention in order to gain that ever important buy-in from all involved in the savings idea selling process.

Learn how to utilize the circles of confluence within your organization to further enlist and gain acceptance of yours and your fellow works ideas.

Find out how value analysis can be a valuable asset in selling your bosses, clinicians and department heads and managers in your selling ideas and strategies. Learn how the techniques of functional analysis will allow you to generate different alternatives that will still meet you customers exact requirements and allow you to sell your own ideas using the functional methodologies.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:39:37 GMT</pubDate>
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Find out how you can use value analysis and functional analysis strategies to give you the internal edge in the savings idea selling process.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:57:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This week's healthcare supply chain best practices podcast will highlight Robert T. Yokl's recent speaking engagement at the Healthcare 
Industry Group Purchasing Association's (HIGPA) Annual Expo in Orlando, FL.  Also, we will focus in on a great opportunity that healthcare organization's and supply professionals can find 10% to 15% more savings on their capital equipment and new technology purchases that they did not realize they should be taking advantage of.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:27:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>Robert T. Yokl</itunes:author>
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      <description><![CDATA[On this weeks Supply Chain Best Practices Podcast, we will discuss how you can lead your healthcare organization's supply chain in the right direction.  

We will also discuss how you can successful value analysis and savings  programs continue to evolve, not stagnate.  As we will discuss the evolution of your value analysis program with new ideas, processes and opportunities for savings growth and quality performance.

We also have a special listener guest on our podcast who would like to discuss the use of the term "Best Practices" in the title of our podcast.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>Robert T. Yokl</itunes:author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Follow the rules or don't call it value analysis.  Most healthcare organizations will say they are doing value analysis, but what they are really doing is GPO contract evaluations, price shopping, standardization or product evaluations. This is not value analysis!

Building A Culture Of Accountability With Supply Six Sigma™: The Next Generation Value Analysis Model.  You can’t hold people accountable if they don’t know what they are being held responsible for, answerable for, or expected to accomplish. This is why you need to measure results utilizing the tools of benchmarking.  Then you will know how much supply savings is achievable at your healthcare organization not only globally, but by commodity group, service line and SKU (stock keeping unit).  This way your project managers will know with certainty how much savings they are responsible for squeezing out of any project that they are working on, e.g., orthopedics, pacemakers, dressing, kits, trays, etc.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:24:35 GMT</pubDate>
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benchmarking, using brainstorming as a new way to generate new savings ideas and strategies for supply or productivity performance excellence]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:14:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>Robert T. Yokl</itunes:author>
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      <title>Value Analysis is Not Just About Saving Money</title>
      <description><![CDATA[What is your value analysis program ROI? Learn how to track the success
rate of your supply value analysis program. Also, find out why value
analysis is not just about money and it is just as much a supply chain
quality improvement program as cost management tool if used properly. Find out how to you can dramatically improve your quality and customer
satistfaction while you reduce costs and expenses for your hospital, health system or IDN.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:47:16 GMT</pubDate>
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