Purchasing Trading Partners Feedback Process for Purchase Practice Refinement

A method of processing a non-compliant or non-optimal purchase report, on one or more programmable processing units, to provide feedback relative to a purchasing entity, the method comprising:

• receiving a feedback report from a purchasing entity wherein the report comprises at least one completed reason code in a feedback field associated with a non-compliant or non-optimal item purchase record, the item purchase record also associated with a first unique product identifier;
• identifying, using one of the one or more programmable processing units, at least one item purchase record from a second purchasing entity in an overlapping time period corresponding to the first unique product identifier;
• determining instances where the first purchasing entity provided a reason code of manufacturer back order (MBO) and the item purchase record from the second purchasing entity indicates a non back order status;
• and
• saving the determined instances to a memory.

A method of processing a non-compliant or non-optimal purchase report from a purchasing entity, on one or more programmable processing units, to provide feedback relative to a first distribution center, the method comprising:

• receiving a feedback report from a purchasing entity wherein the report comprises at least one completed reason code in a feedback field associated with a non-compliant or non-optimal item purchase record, the item purchase record also associated with a first unique product identifier;
• identifying, using one of the one or more programmable processing units, at least one item purchase record from a second purchasing entity in an overlapping time period also corresponding to the first unique product identifier, wherein the first purchasing entity and the second purchasing entity are serviced by a common distributor;
• determining instances where the first purchasing entity provided a reason code of not stocked at a first distribution center;
• identifying at least one instance where the second purchasing entity did not provide a reason code of not stocked at a second distribution center;
• and
• calculating a potential cost savings across the group of purchasing entities if the first distribution center had stocked the item corresponding to the first unique product identifier at sufficient quantities for purchases by the group of purchasing entities serviced by the first distribution center.

A method of processing a non-compliant or non-optimal purchase report, on one or more programmable processing units, to provide feedback relative to a purchasing entity, the method comprising:

• receiving a feedback report from a first purchasing entity wherein the report comprises at least one completed reason code in a feedback field associated with a non-compliant or non-optimal item purchase record, the item purchase record also associated with a unique product identifier;
• determining instances where the first purchasing entity provided a reason code indicating hospital preference;
• analyzing the comment field associated with the item purchase record corresponding to the reason code indicating hospital preference;
• determining if the comment field contains a valid rationale for hospital preference status;
• and
• storing a status indicating a result of the comment field analysis.