Duesseldorf, Germany - November 2011

GHX Names Michel van der Heijden to Head Its European Operations

GHX is delighted to announce that Michel van der Heijden, a 30-year veteran of the fast-moving consumer goods, pharmaceutical and medical device industries, has assumed the role of president of GHX Europe. van der Heijden, based in Brussels, will be responsible for managing the largest platform for electronic commerce and related healthcare supply chain solutions in Europe.

GHX Europe currently operates in seven countries the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and France. Nearly 1,500 European healthcare provider organizations and 350 suppliers are achieving cost savings and greater business efficiency using GHX core electronic trading exchange services and associated supply chain management solutions.

“From a strategic standpoint, Michel will lead one of our most important global efforts by driving utilization and expansion of our core exchange in Europe, as well as the Nexus procurement and catalogue solution, and our new value-added solutions”, said GHX President and CEO Bruce Johnson.

GHX Deutschland GmbH starts business activity

On 1 September 2011 the newly established GHX Deutschland GmbH started its operations in Frankfurt a. M. While some central sectors such as Marketing and IT will stay in Duesseldorf, in Frankfurt the German hospital, pharmacy and laboratory customers as well as regional suppliers will be serviced directly by GHX Deutschland GmbH. With the establishment of GHX Deutschland GmbH necessary structures are created to reach the ambitious goals for the German market via a higher customer proximity: The German Key Account Management as well as the German Project Management team in Frankfurt shall be developed consequently, the customer support team will be extended and new functional areas will be created.

Dr. Christoph Luz, Managing Director GHX Deutschland GmbH: „With GHX Deutschland GmbH we created a unit that is able to concentrate completely on the German markets’ needs. In this way we are even closer to the customer, can operate quicker and provide the customer with a tailor-made service.”

New GHX Case Study published

GHX has published a case study with Kath. St.-Johannes Gesellschaft Dortmund gGmbH, outlining the advantages and benefits of the use of GHX solutions. The case study, which is available in a German and in an English version, shows opportunities for the optimization of the ordering process along the entire supply chain, as well as synergy effects, which result from the combined use of several GHX solutions. Kath. St.-Johannes-Gesellschaft is a GHX customer already since 2001, and today the Zentraleinkauf processes 97% of its orders electronically via the GHX platform. A pdf version of the case study can be downloaded on our website. Please click here for the English version and here for the German version.

GHX and hoseco announce collaboration in the field of procurement logistics in healthcare

GHX and hoseco GmbH announce their collaboration in the field of procurement logistics in healthcare. On the basis of a technology partnership both companies enable their customers to carry out their processes electronically along the entire supply chain.

The platform-independent solutions of hoseco’s IGAS product family very easily document and manage logistic processes in healthcare institutions, while interfaces with the GHX platform allow the use of high-quality article master data and the direct exchange of data with suppliers connected to GHX.

In June GHX and aequitixx announced their cooperation for the delivery of digitised invoices for GHX customers. This collaboration set the stage for a completely electronic invoice verification.

The paper invoices received from suppliers are scanned on the customer site and sent encrypted. Aequitixx digitalises all data necessary for the invoice verification and maps the data with the correspondent orders down until the line item level. The adjusted data is sent into the customers ERP system via the existing GHX interfaces. If the data matches the content of the correspondent delivery notes, the clinical staff can directly book. The manual effort is thus tremendously reduced.

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