that goes beyond our patients in the beds.”

Real-time visibility with Mpower™ Foundations Rivera and her colleague, Charlene Berg, another UCHealth inventory manager, are now refining the next evolution of data reporting: Mpower Foundations, an interactive tool that allows inventory managers to have real-time data visibility and communicate quickly with Medline. The portal not only integrates PBO reporting, but it also allows an inventory manager to integrate their substitute item management.

Product lines UCHealth orders per month

Product lines AutoSub has prevented from being backordered

Critical SKUs AutoSub has helped maintain continuity

Rise in unadjusted fill rates for users of AutoSub

ue-analysis team, a cohort of nurses who work under supply chain, informs the list.

“ They provide us with a really robust list of approved crosses on many of our items,” says Rivera. " That is our one source of truth, if you will, and from there we’ ve built it out in a lot of different ways.”

Since UCHealth inventory managers are working with a large number of different facilities, they need to have a sense of what’ s required not just for the system, but at each specific location. UCHealth is the largest health system in the state, with more than 2,500 beds spread across more than 14 hospitals and a large medical group. Rivera

“ Previously, we would have an indication that an item would be going on backorder at the branch,” says Rivera.“ Now, with the work that we’ ve done, all of our substitute items are listed under that primary item. So if we can’ t get our main widget, we’ ve added in three different sub items stacked out.”

The two sides of the coin operate in tandem: The inventory managers are proactively notified of a potential backorder, and the substitution list mitigates the risk. That work requires a larger team that operates under what Rivera calls the“ supply chain umbrella” at UCHealth. The valsays

they can use Mpower Foundations to quickly understand product status at various branches and tie in PBO usage data to get a holistic view.

“ Three years ago we were pulling five or six Excel files and emailing them back and forth multiple times,” said Rivera.“ Now we can pull up one online report, maybe ask one or two questions, and we can move forward.”

Having that visibility means a greater chance of dodging backorders and getting necessary products in clinicians’ hands.

“ At the end of the day, we ' re here for patient care and patient safety,” says Rivera.“ So anything that we can do to quickly and safely provide the supplies needed to our clinical teams is going to improve our patient care.”

AutoSub unlocks resiliency and labor hours Theresa Dixon, Medline field sales support manager, says that what has distinguished UCHealth’ s use of Mpower Foundations is the inventory managers’ active use of Medline’ s automatic substitution tool. AutoSub allows customers to identify substitutions for any of their primary products, so if one goes on backorder, an available item from the list can immediately tag in.