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Technology services
Cardinal.com ordering
Cardinal.com ordering provides real-time pharmacy-order and inventory-management
solutions through the Internet.
The Cardinal.com ordering program streamlines the ordering process and helps
control a pharmacy's inventory capital investment. The migration
of the current CardinalCHOICE® functionality from a Microsoft®
Windows® based environment to the Internet now provides the
pharmacy with unparalleled real-time procurement.
Cardinal.com ordering features:
- Immediate Internet access through the www.cardinal.com
web site
- Enhancement of the pharmacy's operational efficiencies
- Real-time stock status
- Up-to-the-minute pricing
- Real-time allocation of product from the distribution centers
- Instant order confirmation
- Electronic credits and returns
- Capacity of the pharmacy to stay within contract portfolios
during each pre- and post-order stage of purchasing
- Contract/program ranking drives purchasing activity
- Recommendations for the highest ranked (lowest cost/unit) contract
item
- Promotion of orders of preferred products
Cardinal.com ordering benefits pharmacies by:
- Increasing profitability and gross margin
- Streamlining ordering and operational management time
- Enabling pharmacists to spend more time with patients
- Creating better, faster and more useful operational information
- Enhancing and simplifying critical daily and strategic operational
decisions
- Providing the technology necessary to stay competitive
- Maximizing contract and program compliance
- Optimizing third-party reimbursements
Branded Internet and e-Commerce Solutions
Leader Online is a comprehensive, turnkey business-to-consumer Web
site program that makes it easy for Leader members to take their retail
pharmacies to their customers via the World Wide Web. The Internet
has become one of the most popular and convenient ways for pharmacies
to do business. Having a customized Leader Online Web site arms the
pharmacy with the e-commerce and communication capabilities needed
to compete with large retail chains.
Leader Online includes:
- Design, development, and maintenance of a custom-built, corporate
Web site with e-commerce capabilities plus Web sites for each
of your chain's stores
- Comprehensive marketing kit to help promote your sites to current
and prospective customers
- Unique URL addresses with a choice of template designs and
functionality
Leader Online benefits pharmacies by:
- Giving patients access to on-line health, wellness and medication
information
- Accepting prescription refills online anytime, day or night
- Promoting monthly specials and unique services on-line
- Offering hundreds of health care products, including home health care
items, on-line
- Retaining customer loyalty and increasing business by making it even
more convenient for customers to shop the store
- Allowing the pharmacy to provide links to other complementary Web
sites of interest to customers
- Creating additional opportunities to interact with customers via e-mail
- Enabling the pharmacy to easily manage, update, and refresh its Web
site
- Providing support via the www.myleader.com
locator Web site
Mobile Solutions
Mobile Solutions empowers you to leverage the receiving and ordering
functionality of cardinal.com without being constrained to a desktop. Mobile
Solutions is a handheld scanning device based on Pocket PC™ technology.
It gives you the freedom to move untethered about the pharmacy and work
directly with your inventory. Mobile Solutions makes the pharmacy more
efficient in its daily processes.
With Mobile Solutions, ordering product can now be done with greater efficiency
and flexibility. Product bar codes can be scanned from the shelf label
or from the product itself. History and product details can also be accessed
and reviewed right from the Mobile Solutions device.
As product is received, you can record product by piece, case and tote
with the quick scan of the license plate. Since the device is completely
self-contained and not constrained by a computer cable, product can be
checked-in anywhere in the pharmacy or warehouse. Data can then be transferred
to and evaluated on cardinal.com.
With Mobile Solutions, the partnership between your pharmacy and cardinal.com
will enable you to focus more on patient care. The result is a more efficient
pharmacy and better results to your bottom line.
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