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Running a pharmacy within a health system is more complex than ever. With dozens—or even hundreds—of sites spanning hospitals, clinics, and outpatient facilities, leaders are asked to do the impossible: manage purchasing, maintain compliance, optimize inventory, and still ensure that pharmacists and staff have the time they need to focus on patient care.
Margins are razor thin, vendor contracts are complicated, and staffing shortages stretch teams to their limits. Against this backdrop, one question keeps pharmacy leaders up at night: How can we deliver consistent, compliant, and cost-effective pharmacy operations across every location?
That’s where SureCost comes in.
The Multi-Location Challenge
Managing purchasing at a single site is difficult enough. Add in multiple pharmacies across a health system and the complexity skyrockets:
- Each location follows different ordering practices.
- Manual processes introduce errors and inefficiencies.
- Compliance with vendor contracts becomes difficult to track.
- Inventory often swings between shortages and overstocking.
- Leaders lack enterprise-wide visibility into performance and spend.
The result? Missed savings, wasted resources, and a constant strain on staff and patients.
How SureCost Helps Health Systems
SureCost was built with multi-location pharmacies in mind. It provides a unified platform to automate, standardize, and optimize purchasing and inventory across all sites—while giving leaders real-time insights that drive better decision-making.
1. Automation That Frees Up Staff
Routine tasks like order submission, replenishment, and transfers can be automated, giving pharmacists back valuable time for patient care. With SureCost, health systems prevent delays, shortages, and over-ordering—without relying on manual oversight.
2. Standardization with Local Flexibility
SureCost allows corporate leaders to set purchasing rules across the enterprise while enabling site-level exceptions where clinically necessary. This ensures compliance and consistency while respecting the unique needs of each department or location.
3. Actionable Insights for Enterprise Leaders
Reports such as Vendor Compliance, Purchasing Overview, and Inventory Discrepancy provide visibility across every location. Leaders can identify purchasing trends, uncover savings, and prevent waste in ways not possible with fragmented systems.
4. Smarter Inventory Management
SureCost helps health systems maintain optimal inventory levels, automatically replenishing high-demand medications and enabling cross-location transfers. This prevents both costly overstocking and dangerous shortages.
5. Real-Time Compliance Monitoring
By continuously monitoring purchases against contract terms, SureCost ensures that health systems stay compliant, protect rebates, and catch discrepancies before they become costly mistakes.
