Gain greater control over your logistics to perform at your highest
You need to focus on building healthy communities, not managing logistics. Complex and inefficient shipping not only costs you money — it costs you time. And for health systems everywhere, few things are more inefficient than same-day and next-day shipping.
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How many couriers do you see in a typical week? How inefficient is your courier network? How much is unmanaged courier activity costing you?
OptiFreight® Logistics Same Day Solutions
Health systems typically order courier after courier without having a holistic view of their network. The result: missed opportunities to streamline deliveries, optimize costs and minimize daily disruptions.
When shipping with urgency, what you don’t see might cost you
Shipments passing
Being immediately responsive is why couriers charge so much. It’s also why you often see drivers from the same service pass each other in the lobby.
Even if it's not urgent, if you call them, they dispatch the truck.
Couriers, couriers everywhere
Multiple departments call couriers at all hours of the day and night, and couriers are literally wearing a path to your door. And cashing in.
Specimens with everything
Imagine specimens stacked on pizza boxes and delivered by the same guy. (Actually, let’s not.) Yes, it’s happened. We don’t have to explain the risk, do we?
It might be safer to order lunch from the vending machine.
Absolutely positively today
Unmanaged, urgent deliveries tend to become a habit, so everything gets expensive same-day treatment, even things that could easily go overnight.
People figure, the courier’s picking up other stuff anyway, so why not?
You want privacy?
Who sees the personal medical info when the not-totally-hip-to-HIPAA driver leaves the van wide open? Talk about exposure.
Some departments default to the cheapest courier or the first available.
Snack attack
We saw a super-busy department pay a courier $30—to deliver $20 worth of coffee and snacks from hospital food services.
The courier isn’t paid to ask questions — especially when someone’s hungry.
Design your virtual delivery network
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Snack Attack
Gaining greater visibility through an unbiased assessment can improve the efficiency of your time-sensitive deliveries.
Take a closer look at the chaos among your couriers
Try our Chaos Visualizer: How many duplicate courier relationships and redundant delivery routes does your health system have on an average day?
The OptiFreight® Logistics solution
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What you don't see might hurt you.
Often, individuals and departments use different couriers for same-day deliveries. But under pressure, they may not be making the best choices, resulting in sub-optimal or even risky deliveries. If you watched the lobby security footage, how much duplication and inefficiency would you see?
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Data-driven insights and analytics show you the way
You can't fix what you can't see. Daily reports, analytics and insights — powered by our unmatched scale and data — reveal new ways to reduce complexity, drive efficiency and help ensure on-time delivery with a trusted solution.
Redundancy leads to inefficiency
Simply share your transportation data so we can optimize your same-day and next-day deliveries.
Make the complex simple. Daily reports, analytics and insights — powered by our unmatched scale and data — reveal new ways to reduce complexity, drive efficiency and help ensure on-time delivery with a trusted solution. Simply share your transportation data so we can optimize your same-day and next-day deliveries.
You can't fix what you can't see. Daily reports, analytics and insights — powered by our unmatched scale and data — reveal new ways to reduce complexity, drive efficiency and help ensure on-time delivery with a trusted solution. Simply share your transportation data so we can optimize your same-day and next-day deliveries.
Welcome to the Cardinal Health™ OptiFreight® Logistics Watch Tower
We manage it all so you don’t have to. Innovation and insights allow us to monitor courier activity across your campus, revealing new ways to improve systems, efficiencies and service utilization.
Discover untapped efficiencies
OptiFreight® Logistics Watch Tower
From mail to medical records...
Linens to lab specimens...
Products to pharmaceuticals...
The more we see, the more we can address. You provide us contract and transportation data and we roll up our sleeves to build and implement a strategy that streamlines and optimizes your same-day transportation.
Our team of committed experts uses these insights to tailor and optimize the performance of your program.
Inbound
Outbound
Same-day courier
Missed opportunity
Current process
Only focusing on inbound and outbound freight management creates a missed opportunity.
Inbound and outbound freight management services are provided by OptiFreight® Logistics.
The OptiFreight® Logistics Watch Tower: Save every way you ship
Many modes, one tailored solution. Optimize what you spend on every shipping mode: same-day, next-day, small parcel and large freight.
That’s the power of optimization
Small parcel
Large freight
OptiFreight® Logistics Watch Tower helps you monitor — and optimize — across modes:
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See more, manage more.
Once we get the big picture (with all the details), we help you balance service options and make the best use of same-day, overnight, and other short-term services.
For example: Did you know that for some shipments, next-day delivery can meet your needs like same-day, but typically costs less?
Take back more time for patient care
Simplify your shipping. As an industry leader, OptiFreight® Logistics uses decades of experience to optimize your shipping across carriers, service levels and points of care. We empower you with:
Increased visibility into your shipping spend
Flexible and customized solutions to drive efficiency and reliability
Unmatched data and analytics for continuous improvement
Personal attention from your dedicated Account Manager
Advance your total healthcare logistics.
Contact us today.
OptiFreight® Logistics
GMB-OptiFreight@cardinalhealth.com
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We can help you manage your existing providers. Or source and manage all your same-day delivery needs. Whichever you choose, we live to make cost-effective same-day deliveries part of the routine:
Greater efficiency of processes
Reduced costs through optimization
Data-fed insights and visibility into transportation spend and routes
Dedicated support from industry experts
And because we're not a courier or shipping service, we never favor one solution over another. We just look at the data. And look out for you.
End the chaos. Build a better system.
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