What does a best practice P2P system look like, and how do you get there

By ahhb
Tuesday, 15 December, 2015

Healthcare organisations’ critical, patient care-related activities are reliant on speedy payment and low costs within an environment of regulatory uncertainty and increasingly complex government legislation. The key to overcome the complexity and organise and optimise procurement procedures is found in the implementation of Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) systems. However, many healthcare organisations face huge challenges in migrating from a manual to an automated system.

The expansive nature of processes and the numerous orders and suppliers make adoption difficult, as does low supplier participation in invoicing initiatives. For these reasons, many healthcare organisations simply automate as much as they can without disrupting their supplier base, current processes, and finances but are not always successful.
Many procurement professionals understand the benefits. P2P systems provide data after requisition, leaving you to make corrections after the fact without off-contract spend and the rework it requires. Implementing it is a different story. The purchase-to-pay process (P2P) is a system which involves many different people and departments and the greater the number of people involved, the bigger the potential source of error.

The 2nd annual HealthProcure 2016 conference, being held at the Melbourne Park Function Centre in Melbourne from 16 – 18 February will welcome Neville Daffy, Procurement Systems Project Manager, Barwon Health and Charlie Way, Group Manager Property, Assets & Procurement, Southern Cross Care who will offer their insights into how they implemented a full end to end P2P system in their procurement divisions in order to maximise competitiveness. During their case studies they will identify how they overcame the implementation challenges when transforming from a decentralised into a centralised approach, what other health and aged care providers can learn from their failures and successes and how to further improve procurement excellence after the implementation is completed.

Bringing together more than 20 other senior procurement managers from private, public and not-for-profit hospitals, aged care operators, government departments and agencies and all other stakeholders in Australia’s healthcare sector, this conference is the ideal opportunity for procurement and supply chain managers to meet, learn and share strategies and case studies to improve procurement outcomes.
Event Overview
Tuesday 16 February
Conference Day 1
Wednesday 17 February
Conference Day 2.
Thursday 18 February
In-depth learning session A: Using data in order to achieve better stakeholder and supplier engagement outcomes in your procurement division.
In-depth learning session B: How to successfully outsource procurement activities in order to achieve improved performance in a shorter delivery time.