Healthcare Industry: National Product Catalogue
Benefits
The NPC will transform procurement in public healthcare institutions, providing significant benefits to both suppliers and purchasers.
In particular, as a single source of electronic procurement information it will benefit suppliers by:
- Creating one standard process for providing item details to all health departments
- A myriad of existing paper forms and specification sheets will be replaced by on electronic system
- Improving product visibility and reach across Australia's largest healthcare buyers
- Providing a solid basis on which to build electronic messaging systems for eProcurement
- Reducing the effort and cost involved in communicating product, price and medicines information to public health institutions
- Decreasing "out-of-stocks" and supplier capital tied up in safety stocks
- Significantly reducing the time and cost of introducing new products onto the market
- Streamlining notifications of product recalls
- Streamlining data provision processes to some regulation authorities
