Method Procurement Technologies

Rush orders happen when a practice runs out of a supply it did not plan for and pays a premium to get it back in stock fast.

For a single location, a rush order here and there feels acceptable.

Across a multi-location group, those off-cycle purchases add up to a budget leak nobody owns, and nobody planned for.

The good news for any operator looking at supply spend: this is the most fixable line item you have.

Read more: https://www.methodusa.com/resources/why-dental-practices-rush-orders

Case Study: How Shared Practices Group Built a Procurement Operation That Scales 📈

When you're opening one new office a month, procurement can’t be an afterthought. It should take priority. Shared Practices Group treated it as such and used Method to build the visibility, structure, and accountability their growing organization needed to scale procurement.

Read how they did it here: https://www.methodusa.com/shared-practices-group

Procurement is a lot more than simply ordering supplies. In reality, it's a strategic process that involves optimizing four critical elements of ordering simultaneously.

You must ensure that you are ordering the right things, at the right time, from the right place, and at the right price.

Read more: https://www.methodusa.com/resources/the-purpose-of-procurement-getting-the-right-things-at-the-right-time-from-the-right-place-at-the-right-price

Whether you manage one practice or a hundred, you can turn hours of inventory and ordering supplies into minutes with Method.

Eliminate manual inventory counting, automate reordering, and get real-time visibility into inventory levels across all locations, saving your practice up to 30 - 40% on costs.

Learn more: https://www.methodusa.com/platform/inventory-management

Most dental practices assume that cutting supply costs means hunting for a new distributor or spending hours negotiating.

The reality is more straightforward and more frustrating, once you see it clearly.

Practices that run lean supply budgets are not doing anything exotic. They have built a system. They know what they buy, how much they use, and what it should cost across multiple sources.

That combination alone, applied consistently, can reduce supply spend by 30 to 40%.

Read more: https://www.methodusa.com/resources/dental-practices-save-on-supply-costs-switching-vendors

All dental offices have some system in place for ordering supplies.

The problem is that most of those systems are held together by habit, memory, and whoever happened to be nearby when something ran out.

While everyone has a system, yours could just be a bad one. If your practice fits any of the patterns in this blog, the process is costing more than you think.

Read more: https://www.methodusa.com/resources/7-signs-your-dental-supply-ordering-process-is-broken

Your Suppliers Are Not Paying the Same Price for Inventory and That's Costing You 👀

Whether you're ordering supplies for one office or fifty, your suppliers are no longer quoting comparable prices. One supplier may be quoting a price based on inventory they bought six months ago. Meanwhile, another is pricing off a container that just cleared customs last week at a dramatically different landed cost.

Two suppliers quoting the identical product can now be 30 to 50% apart on price.

Here's what's driving it and how to mitigate the effects: https://www.methodusa.com/resources/your-suppliers-are-not-paying-the-same-price-for-inventory-and-thats-costing-you

Build your reorder lists by scanning directly into your Method Cart for easy price comparison and ordering ✨

✅ Scan Method Reorder Cards or Labels with custom QR codes that enable you to order from your preferred suppliers. (Barcode scanning is also available!)

✅ Compare prices on supplies in a few clicks with our Cost Conparison analysis tool.

✅ Place your orders.

Learn more here: https://www.methodusa.com/platform/inventory-management