Vol. VII, No. 8Archive > August, 2006

Is It Time to Change Your Distributor?

Excellent service and communication are as important as pricing, our reader survey found.

Stephanie Wasek, Managing Editor

What would spur you to look for a new distributor? Pricing that's been creeping up - and is now in danger of busting your supply budget? The lure of free shipping? A delivery person who simply leaves the boxes stacked haphazardly in a hallway?

 
Have an account? Please sign in:
Email Address:
Password:
Keywords:
1 Setting service standards; A Closer Look; 2 What you want, when you want it; 3 Embracing your case volumes; ASC; Ala. She's; Alabama Outpatient Services; Center; Clinic Endoscopy; Clinic: Head; Closer Look While; Delays; Elkhart Clinic Endoscopy; Embracing; Endoscopy; Enterprise, Ala. She's; Head; Jersey; John's Clinic: Head; July; Look While; Magazine Reader Survey, July; Marin Specialty Surgery Center; Ms. Sharke; Ms. Stanley's; Neck Surgery; Outpatient Services; Outpatient Surgery Magazine Reader Survey, July; Pricing; Reader Survey, July; Sawtooth Surgery Center; Services; Setting; Shark... show all keywords
1 Setting service standards; A Closer Look; 2 What you want, when you want it; 3 Embracing your case volumes; ASC; Ala. She's; Alabama Outpatient Services; Center; Clinic Endoscopy; Clinic: Head; Closer Look While; Delays; Elkhart Clinic Endoscopy; Embracing; Endoscopy; Enterprise, Ala. She's; Head; Jersey; John's Clinic: Head; July; Look While; Magazine Reader Survey, July; Marin Specialty Surgery Center; Ms. Sharke; Ms. Stanley's; Neck Surgery; Outpatient Services; Outpatient Surgery Magazine Reader Survey, July; Pricing; Reader Survey, July; Sawtooth Surgery Center; Services; Setting; Sharke; She's; South Alabama Outpatient Services; Specialty Surgery Center; St. John's Clinic: Head; Staffing; Stanley; Surgery; Surgery Center; Surgery Magazine Reader Survey, July; Survey, July; ability; action; added; adding; adequate; administrator; advises; affected; affiliated; area; assistance; attempt; attention; averaging; back; backorder; bad; based; big; biggest; bottom; boxes; breaking; bringing; business; busting; buy; calls; case; cases; center; changed; changing; charged; chasing; choosing; choosing/staying; chosen; cited; clinical; clinics; closely; coming; communication; company; compared; concerned; contact; contract; cost; creeping; cross-referencing; current; customer; customized; danger; dealing; deliveries; delivery; determine; developed; difficulty; director; distribution; distributor; distributors; distributorship; double; driver; due; efficiency; effort; eliminated; ended; essential; excellent; expectations; expects; expenses; experience; facility; factors; feedback; feel; feeling; feels; fees; felt; flexibility; flip; four-fifths; free; friendly; give; glitches; good; half; haphazardly; happy; hats; helping; helps; high; highest-rated; hindering; honest; honesty; hospital; important; inaccurate; including; incomplete; incredibly; independently; inherited; insulting; integrity; interest; issue; item; knowledgeable; large; late-afternoon; learn; leaves; local; lot; low; lure; made; maintain; maintained; major; make; make-or-break; makes; manage; management; manager; manner; materials; meeting; minimum; minor; missing; mistakes; mix; money; monthly; move; next-day; no-hassle; notify; number; online; open; opinions; order; ordering; orders; packs; pages; par; part; partner; past; peek; percent; person; personalized; phone; place; potential; previous; pricing; primarily; primary; priority; problem; procedure; product; programs; provide; quarterly; question; ranked; reach; reason; reasons; recently; relationship; rep; representative; reps; respondent; responsive; returning; riding; rise; room; run; sales; sampling; schedule; searching; secondary; seek; service; settling; she's; shelf; shipping; simply; slow; small; software; specialized; spur; stacked; staff's; standing; staying; stock; stop; substitute; suites; supplies; supply; surgery; survey; switch; switched; switching; system; things; threaten; time; timely; top; touted; track; treated; triple; trouble; truck; turn; utmost; variety; vendors; vested; warehouse; waste; watch; wear; weekly; work; worth
DID YOU SEE THIS?
Orthopaedics

Save Money With These Saw Blades

/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120329_Arthrex_AR-300x250.jpg

Other Articles That May Interest You

Take Advantage of Pain Pump Advances

Can these improvements provide better relief?

Bad Economy? What Bad Economy?

My center is flourishing during the current recession. So can yours.

Ideas That Work

Dilate difficult veins - Grab-and-go GI carts - Who's your fire captain?