Supply Chain It Analyst

At Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH), we realize that in order to provide our surrounding communities with excellent care, we must begin by providing our employees with that same care and appreciation. We offer rich opportunities to develop and grow professionally, an environment of excellence in patient care, and the awareness that everything we accomplish is a direct outgrowth of the superb efforts and dedication of our employees.

As a non-profit system of almost 4000 employees, we have won national acclaim for our cancer, cardiac, stroke, bariatric, breast imaging, and rehabilitation services.

Job Roles

• Safety

o Manages processes effectively in regard to employee safety.

• Record Keeping

o Maintains all required records, reports, statistics, logs, files and other documents as required.

• Process Improvement

o Promotes a culture of process improvement by establishing unit/department based programs that supports the system’s process improvement goals.
o Actively participates on system-wide or hospital-based teams.

• Role Specific Responsibilities

o Maintains all aspects of the ERP Item Master, product updates, additions, deletions, etc.
o Responsible for ERP maintenance.
o Establishes and maintains PAR level inventory in the ERP system for all patient care and supporting units.
o Responsible for ERP updates, patches, testing, and data validation.
o Contributes to benchmarking tool conversations and data validation.
o Responsible for daily integrity of the ERP system, reviewing report data, unreleased requisitions, unreleased receivers. Etc.
o Troubleshoots failures of the ERP system/printers, and communicates downtime for updates.
o Responsible for testing new updates and versions.
o Responsible for maintaining, testing, and troubleshooting hand held inventory devices.
o Participates in committees to improve the current ERP system and select future system functionalities.
o Responsible for set up and maintenance of EDI vendors and transaction sets.
o Responsible for the set up of new requesters in the ERP system once
o Responsible for support of Epic and Insysive systems when needed.
o Assists Inventory Control Manager in assuring the integrity of the central distribution center inventory.
o Responsible for annual inventory process for the central distribution center; products count sheets, freezing of inventory, valuation, beginning to end of the process according to the established SOP.
o Responsible for providing count sheets, product/pricing updates, and valuation of the annual inventory for systemwide Surgery, Cath Lab, and Interventional Imaging departments.
o Provides all systemwide inventory valuation to Accounting by required date.
o Assists in the onboarding of new clinics, physician practices, and facilities.

Education

• Associates degree in business, information technology, or operations management required.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, or operations management preferred.
• In lieu of degree, 8 years of inventory control management experience.

Licenses and Certification

• N/A

Experience and Skills

• Technical Experience: 3 years in Healthcare Inventory Control