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Why Pharmacies Must Optimize Procurement Now

Pharmacies face shrinking margins, volatile pricing, drug shortages and limited staff capacity. Treating procurement as a back-office function is no longer sustainable. This white paper explores how pharmacies can shift from reactive purchasing to a proactive model by aligning strategy, anticipating risk and automating procurement to reduce cost, improve compliance and improve efficiency.

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Navigating Drug Shortages and Price Fluctuations

Rising drug costs and shortages challenge pharmacy purchasing. This white paper explores what’s ahead and shares strategies to stay compliant, cut costs and manage ongoing supply and market disruptions.

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Multi-Location Pharmacy Procurement: Automation and Insights for Success

Discover why procurement automation is vital for multi-location pharmacies. This white paper shows how automation and flexible reporting drive efficiency, savings and competitiveness across pharmacy operations.

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Workforce Pressures are Rising

Smarter procurement can help pharmacies tackle rising workforce pressures. This white paper explores staff shortages’ impact and offers strategies to improve procurement, reduce burdens and boost performance.

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Smarter Purchasing Report 2025

Discover how top pharmacies are reducing costs, improving patient care and minimizing burnout with smarter purchasing strategies backed by real data, proven savings and scalable tech solutions.

A Three Pronged Approach to Driving Purchasing Compliance Across your Pharmacy

A Three Pronged Approach to Driving Purchasing Compliance Across your Pharmacy

A three-pronged approach for pharmacies to maintain purchasing compliance amidst drug shortages and regulatory demands, focusing on managing contracts, agreements and navigating regulations to optimize procurement and ensure patient safety.

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Driving Primary Vendor Compliance to Increase Pharmacy Purchasing Savings

Discover how best-in-class purchasing automation empowers pharmacies to optimize GPO benefits, boost compliance, streamline workflows and unlock savings—all without overhauling existing systems.

Challenges for Pharmacies in 2025: What to Expect and How to Prepare

Challenges for Pharmacies in 2025: What to Expect and How to Prepare

Pharmacies in 2025 face rising drug costs, shortages, staffing crises, and compliance challenges. Learn strategies to streamline operations, reduce burnout, and maintain patient care with data-driven solutions.

Leveraging Big Data for Data-Driven Compliance

Leveraging Big Data for Data-Driven Compliance

Leverage big data to optimize pharmacy vendor compliance and purchasing. This white paper explores how data-driven strategies and an integrated purchasing management solution can help pharmacies reduce errors, drive savings and improve efficiency.

Essential DSCSA Updates and Four Ways to Optimize Compliance

Essential DSCSA Updates and Four Ways to Optimize Compliance

Stay ahead of DSCSA compliance updates with a data-driven approach. This white paper outlines key regulatory changes, exemption details and four essential strategies to streamline compliance, reduce risk and ensure audit readiness.

Listen to Your Shelves: Drive Pharmacy Revenue with Inventory Manager

Listen to Your Shelves: Drive Pharmacy Revenue with Inventory Manager

Pharmacy inventory is more than stock—it’s a strategic asset. This white paper explores how data-driven inventory management improves patient service, boosts efficiency and drives savings without adding operational burden.

3 Ways Best-in-Class Purchasing Automation Optimizes GPO Membership

3 Ways Best-in-Class Purchasing Automation Optimizes GPO Membership

Discover how best-in-class purchasing automation empowers pharmacies to maximize GPO value, improve compliance, streamline workflows and unlock savings through smarter and more efficient purchasing decisions.

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Smarter Purchasing Check-Up: Survey Results for Maximizing Pharmacy Savings

SureCost’s 2024 Smarter Purchasing Report identifies five key areas to improve savings amid shortages. This white paper summarizes survey results and shows how pharmacies can optimize their purchasing practices.

The 2024 Smarter Purchasing Report

The 2024 Smarter Purchasing Report

The 2024 Smarter Purchasing Report shows how pharmacies unlock savings and enhance operations, revealing surprising results and providing powerful insights to tackle drug and staffing shortages while staying compliant.

4 Strategies to Mitigate Drug Shortages with Smarter Pharmacy Purchasing

4 Strategies to Mitigate Drug Shortages with Smarter Pharmacy Purchasing

This white paper outlines four strategies to mitigate drug shortages, focusing on smarter purchasing to optimize pharmacy procurement and inventory management through one unified solution.

5 Ways to Offset the Impact of DIR Fees with Smarter Purchasing

5 Ways to Offset the Impact of DIR Fees with Smarter Purchasing

Five SureCost strategies to offset DIR fees' impact on pharmacies, focusing on smarter purchasing, compliance, efficiency and technology for better profitability and sustainability.

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Reduce the Impact of Staff Shortages With Smarter Purchasing

Learn how pharmacies can reduce the burden of staff shortages through smarter purchasing: ease the pressure on staff, minimize the effects on patient care, save time and money and stay compliant.

DSCSA: The Cost of Waiting and the Power of Preparation

DSCSA: The Cost of Waiting and the Power of Preparation

Despite the DSCSA delay, pharmacies must prepare now to manage package-level data, utilize technology like SureCost for streamlined compliance and maintain operational efficiency to avoid future penalties.

Navigating 2024 Trends

Navigating 2024 Trends

Pharmacies in 2024 must tackle DIR fees, drug shortages, and DSCSA delays by enhancing purchasing, leveraging data, and using automation to maintain operations and compliance.

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5 Ways to Withstand Workforce Shortages by Harnessing Technology

Embrace technology to manage staffing shortages, ensuring efficient inventory, optimized purchasing, streamlined workflows, and balanced human interaction, thereby enhancing job satisfaction and patient care.

DSCSA is Delayed. Now What?

DSCSA is Delayed. Now What?

With DSCSA delayed, pharmacies must proactively manage data, avoid drug shortages, maintain vendor relationships and leverage technology like SureCost to ensure compliance and operational efficiency.

Best Cost Isn't Always the Lowest Cost: How to Drive Strategic Purchasing Decisions

Best Cost Isn't Always the Lowest Cost: How to Drive Strategic Purchasing Decisions

This white paper explores the complex landscape of pharmacy purchasing, emphasizing the challenges posed by DIR fees, DSCSA compliance and the misconception that the lowest price always equates to the best value.

Manage Pharmacy Staffing Shortages

Manage Pharmacy Staffing Shortages

This white paper explains how independent pharmacies can use smarter purchasing strategies to address challenges like DIR fees, compliance burdens and competition, thereby improving profitability and operational efficiency.

Achieve and Maintain DSCSA Compliance

Achieve and Maintain DSCSA Compliance

Streamline DSCSA compliance with precise data management, centralize purchasing, and maintain accurate inventory. Utilize technology for seamless compliance, ensuring patient safety and efficient operations.

Address Drug Shortages with Five Critical Purchasing Strategies

Address Drug Shortages with Five Critical Purchasing Strategies

SureCost's purchasing and inventory management solution consolidates data and empowers buyers to quickly identify and purchase the right option from multiple vendors, mitigating the effects of drug shortages.

Leverage Your GPO Membership with Smarter Inventory

Leverage Your GPO Membership with Smarter Inventory

GPO member pharmacies need advanced inventory automation to manage complex inventories efficiently, ensuring the right products are always available, optimizing stock across locations and integrating with purchasing for streamlined operations.

Five Ways to Enhance Purchasing Strategies

Five Ways to Enhance Purchasing Strategies

Best-in-class purchasing automation streamlines pharmacy operations, ensuring optimal inventory management, compliance and efficiency with advanced technology for better decision-making and savings.

Three Best Practices for Managing Your Inventory

Three Best Practices for Managing Your Inventory

Best-in-class inventory automation ensures pharmacies always have the right products, instantly validates inventory and connects systems to streamline work efficiently.

Maximize Your Pharmacy's Profit Margins

Maximize Your Pharmacy's Profit Margins

Pharmacies can maximize profit margins on prescription drugs by optimizing purchasing processes, expanding vendor portfolios and utilizing data for informed decision-making and compliance through smarter inventory management.