All I Do Is Win

Top 1% of aptitude users recognized last week at access18

They are advocates for efficiency. Champions for alignment. They don’t wait and watch, they get it done. In a collaborative fashion, making each one of them a pleasure to work with.

Meet our 2017-2018 award winners:

Justin Albers Captis Health, LLC

Justin is the Partnership Operations Director with Captis. He is an ardent user of the aptitude and Reveal platforms and leverages his knowledge of both to bring efficiencies to all phases of contract management.

Kyle Alford Cardinal Health Inc

Kyle really took the reins early on to become the lead for all initiatives flowing through aptitude. He quickly sought to learn the platform to become the resident expert for Cardinal. Kyle understands all areas of the platform and utilizes the rich information available as an aptitude seller to strategically craft meaningful value propositions for providers.

Jeffrey Bautista Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Jeff was an early adopter of aptitude in 2014. He leverages the platform to identify savings opportunities, quickly validate spend and create contracts with innovative new suppliers. Jeff continues to challenge his team and peers to use aptitude as first choice in their contracting process.

Bernadette Boeckmann Halyard

Bernadette coordinates all of the work within Halyard needed to submit an offer. She is very responsive to our providers and skilled at making creative, strategic offers. And the team says she is truly a joy to work with.

Mark Bouchard Precision Dynamics Corp

Mark has shown unwavering support since PDC entered into our marketplace. He sees and understands the vision we have created and how that translates into value for PDC and for his customers. He consistently looks to leverage his relationship with aptitude to further the advancement of his goals as it relates to customer value, growth and retention.

Kirk Bowman Smiths Medical

Kirk was instrumental in making Smiths Medical one of our earliest adopters and has been a champion for full participation within his organization. Over the years, Kirk has helped them grow from participating in three categories to a current total of twenty today.

Bobbie Camp HARTMANN USA

Bobbie has been with aptitude since the beginning. As an original “pilot” supplier she has helped us grow from an idea to a reality providing constructive feedback and relevant suggestions all along the way. She is always supportive of our efforts and can be counted on to provide a positive reference for aptitude to others.

Aaron Chan Captis Health, LLC

Aaron Chan is one of the principal Contract Portfolio Managers with Mayo Clinic and Captis Health. He is a very forward-thinking individual and uses the platform effectively and efficiently to gain insights and improve the RFP-Contract cycle.

Brooke Golwas 3M Company

Brooke has been instrumental in working with Captis to get contracts established in aptitude for 3M. Brooke has spear headed the 3M team’s use of Reveal technology as well to drive higher compliance and a stronger relationship with their partners.

Mike Hobbs Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc.

Mike went from being a new supplier account to power user in record time. Mike is fully self-sufficient within the platform and has used all aspects of the technology to help his company drive opportunities. He has responded to 29 RFP’s and submitted 7 Seller initiated offers in just 6 months!

Karen Hruska MNS Supply Chain Network LLC

Karen has been a “force” in MNS aptitude successes. Her attention to detail assures all members receive maximum value and serves MNS members well. She and Sharrell Alexander, Network Director, insist on rigorous contract compliance to all MNS aptitude contracts and the members are actively engaged in that process. Karen recognizes the value in the transparency and compliance measurement that aptitude delivers. This commitment to contracting discipline is a standard of excellence recognized by MNS peers and Karen is a “Best Practice” leader.

Lori Jensen Vizient/MSS

Lori Jensen is a Vizient Advisory Solutions consultant that began partnering with aptitude in 2017. Her support of the providers and level of interaction in the platform have been instrumental in driving success and value for the members. Lori is quick to respond to any concerns and her knowledge and interaction with the end-users is helping to bridge the gap between supply chain and clinicians.

Jared Keenan MedStar Health System

When the MNS coalition began its aptitude subscription, Jared was one of the first to be trained on the platform, and immediately recognized the benefits. Jared provided valuable input to his coalition members and ultimately lead MedStar to attain an individual aptitude subscription. MedStar continues its aptitude adoption by using the platform for both commodity and Physician Preference contracting thanks to Jared’s hard work and determination.

Keith Lewis Care Line Industries Inc

Keith’s passion and regular communication has allowed aptitude to take lessons learned from their “Pillows” opportunities and expand them to all product areas for aptitude. He is thoroughly engaged in all opportunities and proactively checks in for feedback and updates.

John Schoonover IHN Sourcing Group

John Schoonover handles the contract coordination between aptitude and IHN members. He is in the platform all the time to insure members have relevant contract information including pricing and savings for each of their CPA’s. While some users prefer to leverage the aptitude team each time they access the platform, John is “stealth” and proactive about getting what he needs independently.

Dawn Smith IHN Sourcing Group

Dawn is a customer champion of aptitude. In three years she has submitted 96 bids yielding 46 CPA’s on behalf of IHN members. What has been a huge help in the IHN success rate of 46 CPA’s is the IHN team being willing to dig deep into the data by category UNSPCS and Seller/Member market share, to understand what their strategy needs to be before sending their RFP.

Anita Tranberg PIH Health

As a member of West Coast Purchasing Coalition, Anita is proactive in reviewing purchase plans, cross references and savings opportunities in the platform. She maximizes the benefit of the WCPC aptitude subscription by thoroughly researching aptitude contract price files and compliance to identify and act on opportunities.

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We also selected a top provider and supplier user to receive one of our limited-edition aptitude accolade trophies.

Supplier: Dan Braun Medline Industries

Dan has been an advocate and user of the platform for 5 years. We caught up with him recently to write a success story and he provided one of our favorite quotes of all time "Every morning I get my coffee, and I get into aptitude." It is fully integrated into his process and has contributed to his continued success.

Provider: Lindsey Sheeran Mayo Clinic, Captis Health

Lindsey is one of the principal Contract Portfolio Managers with Mayo Clinic and Captis. She is a very creative and effective user of both the aptitude and Reveal platforms. She has mastered nearly every attribute within both programs and utilizes the information in very constructive and creative ways…. Lindsey is committed to collaborating with both aptitude and her strategic supply partners by providing effective feedback and communication throughout the contracting process.

There you have it. We created aptitude to be a complementary solution to existing supply chain processes –resulting in efficiency, simplicity, and savings for everyone involved. And these outstanding supply chain professionals are leading the way.

Congratulations once again to all of our power users and aptitude accolade recipients!

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