See how same-day deliveries can impact your lab
As your customer base grows and evolves, so does your need for more dedicated resources to manage your same-day transportation. Unmanaged same-day deliveries can result in a lack of dependability and timeliness, leading to lower work productivity and higher costs. Do you have visibility to shipments? Are late shipments impacting staff productivity? Are couriers properly storing and handling your shipments? Are dependable couriers increasingly more difficult to find? Are your shipments impacting sample turnaround times to customers? What’s this costing you? The answers may surprise you.
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IBISWorld. (2012, June). Medical Couriers in the US. IBISWorld Industry Report 0D4954.
On-time delivery, driver dependability and communication are essential to same-day deliveries, particularly when unexpected issues occur. Delayed deliveries and shipment mishaps can often disrupt operations, impeding your ability to adequately keep your business on schedule.
What you don't see might hurt you.
Between labs and client sites
I can see clearly now
You may know what was shipped out today, but do you have full visibility to all your deliveries and the most efficient way to receive them?
Viable sample
This time-sensitive delivery contains a substance with a chemical composition that breaks down if the lab doesn't receive it quickly
Between client site and lab
Often, individuals use couriers for time-sensitive deliveries. But under pressure, they may not be making the best choices, resulting in sub-optimal or even risky deliveries. If you observed your courier routes throughout the day, how much inefficiency would you see?
Trust, but verify
The delivery was made, but where's the proof of pickup?
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.
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Between facilities and across departments
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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Reimagine your delivery network
On any given day, what would your same-day deliveries look like? Try our Route Visualizer and see how a typical lab can be exposed to hidden inefficiencies. Select your same-day client sites to see how quickly your courier route map can lead to wastefulness.
The OptiFreight® Logistics solution
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Home health
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Hospital Equipment
Home Health
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Now it makes sense.
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.
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Could this be you?
On any given day, what would your unmanaged same-day deliveries look like? Try our Chaos Visualizer… and see how the many needs of a typical system can quickly lead to chaos. Select your same-day users to see how quickly your courier route map becomes a maze. (And is just as hard to navigate.)
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A more holistic view helps OptiFreight® Logistics monitor your local, time-critical deliveries to establish and maintain efficient and cost-effective performance—to keep everything on time and in control. To optimize every opportunity.
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Metrics/ reporting
Specimen viability
On time
Tracking/ technology
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Metrics
Specimen Viability
On time!
Proof of pickup
A more holistic view helps OptiFreight® Logistics monitor your local, time-critical deliveries to establish and maintain efficient and cost-effective performance– optimizing every opportunity.
Linens to lab specimens...
Products to pharmaceuticals...
From mail to medical records...
OptiFreight® Logistics Same Day Solutions
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Once we get the big picture and understand your needs, we develop a solution that’s tailored to you.
OptiFreight® Logistics serves as your single point of contact, accountable for the management, communication, and coordination of your same-day deliveries. Our expertise in healthcare logistics means that we understand how to handle your time-sensitive, high-touch deliveries while maintaining dependable service to you and your customers. 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:
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.
Greater efficiency of processes
Reduced costs through optimization
Data-fed insights and visibility into transportation spend and routes
Dedicated support from industry experts
Build a better system.
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GMB-OptiFreight@cardinalhealth.com
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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.
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:
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