Mainspring Healthcare Solutions has announced a new partnership with PartsSource that will transform how HTM departments manage parts inventory. Over the last decade, the two companies have been innovators in their respective markets; PartsSource with its highly automated parts procurement solution and Mainspring with its integrated equipment lifecycle management platform. The new partnership will deliver benefits to clients, including significantly reduced parts costs, improved staff productivity and detailed visibility into parts consumption, spending and quality.
The PartsSource ePartsFinder application and online marketplace automates the complex workflow of medical equipment parts procurement. The company facilitates more than 300,000 transactions annually by connecting thousands of suppliers and OEMs to over 3,300 hospitals worldwide. The solution makes it easy to find the best options for replacement parts, whether it’s new from the OEM, aftermarket or refurbished. It also manages the procurement process by seamlessly coordinating information between the hospital’s purchasing system, the vendor and Asset Enterprise, Mainspring’s CMMS.
“The Mainspring partnership with PartsSource is going to take our software automation to a new level, by incorporating the power of ePartsFinder directly into Asset Enterprise. Users will be able to view the PartsSource catalog and place purchase requests from within a work order. Their purchase request status will then be automatically updated in the system, saving HTM departments a great deal of time and money,” said Mainspring CEO Hank Goddard.
Asset Enterprise will also have the ability to automatically order parts based on upcoming scheduled work and par levels. This level of automation reduces unplanned downtime, improves compliance for preventative maintenance, while reducing parts and shipping costs.
The automated closed-loop process for parts procurement will give managers complete visibility into parts usage, inventory levels and costs. Asset Enterprise can interface with ERP software to allow for purchasing information to be shared seamlessly between the operational and financial databases.
The basic integration between Asset Enterprise and ePartsFinder is free to Mainspring clients.
