Veterinarian Services

Material and Contract Services - LLC can save your practice money, improve office processes and bring e-procurement programs (order catalogues) to your practice.

Material and Contract Services - LLC’s mission is to provide programs and systems to reduce purchase item costs, to improve procurement processes, to reduce your expenditures for commodities, equipment and services and to provide platforms and e-commerce programs at reasonable prices. Our cooperative/volume purchase programs leverage spending of the cooperative base and we negotiate agreements to provide best-value procurement opportunities.

Our platform of e-procurement solutions will provide methods to improve the receiving, accounts payable and vendor payment process. The platform also improves your visibility of practice expenditures by product category, by supplier and by department or employee. The E-Zbuy software has features which allow the user to enter budget controls to a commodity, product, employee or department. Purchases are restricted when the budget dollar amount is exceeded. An option to our e-procurement platform is an inventory module which can be used to track inventory balances, issues and incoming shipments etc.

New practice start-up assistance

Equipment Specifications
Equipment Pricing
Insurance Policy Identification and Prices
Inventory Recommendations
PE-procurement / catalogues

Material and Contract Services - LLC provides Cooperative/Coop and Consortium Purchasing programs for Veterinary Hospitals, Practices and Associations. We will serve as a representative between Members and Key Suppliers.

MACS Coop will consolidate suppliers to increase responsiveness, improve performance and reduce transaction-processing costs, as well as significantly lowering the cost of goods, material and services.

MACS offer solutions and viable alternatives to meet your specific needs. We combine the purchase requirements of many, with our negotiating and market skills to bring efficiencies and savings to your hospitals and practices.

Our Coop programs currently include pet supplies, laboratory supplies, medical / surgical, surgical, infection control and needles and syringes. Additional programs are under consideration.

THINK: Leverage - Advantage - Influence - Buying Power - Control!

COST SAVINGS
Process Inefficiencies These involve activity timing and coordination, resource allocation, responsibility and authority, workflow and levels of automation and control.

Savings of between 5 and 20% of process costs.

Automation of transactional processes
Utilization of resources for strategic processes

Piece Price Premiums
These result from limited commodity expertise, a lack of purchasing leverage, ineffective sourcing and lacking performance management. Our negotiating skills, market knowledge and leveraged purchase programs will provide savings of between 5 and 20% of applicable spend.

Medical Industry Experience
MACS understand the hospital and medical practice industry. We have provided purchasing and contract management assistance to this industry since 1995. The services included assisting clients negotiate price reductions for current agreements, sourcing new suppliers and negotiating new agreements.

Our hospital industry experience includes:

a. Kaiser Permanente
b. UCLA Medical Center
c. Catholic Health Care – West
d. Other Hospitals

Sutter General, Marin General, Alameda General, Santa Clara Hospital, Alta Bates, Oakland Children 's Hospital, St Josephs, and St. Lukes

Goin' to the Dogs
High tech healthcare is no longer just for humans. Procurement Services Associates, MACS affiliate, worked with a large California multi-hospital veterinary surgical practice to help transition supply chain management from a chronic problem - to a strategic advantage. Following an extensive assessment of utilization, ordering, inventory, and payment practices, PSA worked with this innovative and respected healthcare provider to restructure personnel, update supply systems, and to establish a strategic supplier partnership with a top tier vendor. The result: a 300% project ROI, better service, faster fulfillment, and reduced staff requirements. Arf !