eProcurement Solutions

PowerGate

PowerGate is a Windows based e-procurement system based on PC client / server architecture. It is designed and developed by GHX UK using the latest technologies from Microsoft. The PowerGate range of products is focused on NHS Hospital and Trust wide e-procurement requirements.

The system is a modular based format, which has established ‘off the shelf’ editions available. These editions range from the basic e-Commerce Edition to the full bar-code based data capture, Materials Management Edition. The base editions can be added to with modules to facilitate future developments and growth or to expand the functionality over time.

Across the PowerGate range one of the most effective and valuable tools is the extensive reporting and data analysis capabilities. Even if the system does not deliver the report, as it is required, the data can be made available to a standard reporting tool such as Microsoft Excel or Business Objects. If the data required for analysis is within the PowerGate database, a ‘query’ can be developed to make it available.
Where a ‘joined up’ IT solution is required, interfacing the e-Procurement system to the back office finance system is functionally available. PowerGate has ‘document’ interfacing at Purchase Order and Goods Receipting level. The Invoice Matching module requires the interface at ‘journal’ level directly into either Accounts Payable or Purchase Ledger, and / or General Ledger.

This functionality and flexibility makes PowerGate a valuable tool as well as a ‘state of the art’ e-Commerce based 'end-to-end' Supplies Chain Management system!

Inventory Management using PowerGate

The NHS is under increasing pressure to deliver savings through supply chain efficiencies.

One area that is often overlooked is the inefficiencies and wastage is hospital stores environments such as Theatre Stores. Many hospitals hold several million pounds worth of stock in their Theatre Stores and use no inventory management IT system. Even modest reductions in stock-holdings and wastage will result in significant savings.

The potential benefits of inventory management are significant:

• Achieve Savings by reduced stock holding, increased stock turnover, reduced wastage - expired products, economic re-ordering, achieve time savings through automated processes such as Replenishment, use of Bar-Coding etc. to get less errors and less paperwork
• Capture patient spend 
• Simple efficient replenishment/re-ordering
• Finance system interfaces for purchasing and stock movements
• Comprehensive management reporting
• Specifically designed for hospital stores environments

Web Shop Advanced

When your organisation relies on a manual requisition process, you face limited functionality around the requisition approval process, and as a result, critical steps are often missed, such as obtaining approvals before processing an order.

Web Shop Advanced is an online requisitioning tool that automates the requisition process from creation through approval. Web Shop Advanced makes it possible for your organisiation to create and approve multiple types of requisitions, and automatically send requisitions to your MMIS in order to generate purchase orders. Through automating your requisition process, your organisation can decrease off-contract requisitioning and increase contract compliance.

For most hospitals, there is an ever-increasing pressure to reduce costs and increase profits, without sacrificing patient care. This means more and more, hospitals must look at their internal processes to realise potential savings. As is true with most industries, a hospital's accounts payable department is an area where inefficient processes lead to increase expense - from money spent to reconcile discrepancies and duplicates, as well as lost opportunities for early payment discounts.

Web Shop Basic

Enjoy the benefits of being connected to numerous trading partners through a single integration point. Near immediate savings can be achieved by decreasing the need for separate EDI connections with multiple vendors.

Web Shop Basic also enables providers to utilize other GHX services that increase process automation and savings, including:
GHX Exchange
GHX Nexus

 

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