MedSpeed Selects ORTEC to Help Manage Complex Routing Needs, Improve Customer Service Levels
Scalability and Configurability of ORTEC Routing and
Scheduling Solution
Drives MedSpeed's Selection
May 10, 2011 - ATLANTA, GA - MedSpeed, an
ISO-certified technology-enhanced healthcare transportation
services provider, has selected ORTEC to maximize the efficiencies
of its routing and scheduling processes. MedSpeed designs and
executes centralized transportation outsourcing solutions for
integrated healthcare delivery
networks and other health systems, independent clinical
laboratories, institutional pharmacies and blood banks and helps
its healthcare customers improve and standardize service, reduce
costs and focus on core goals. Using ORTEC's Routing and Scheduling
solution, MedSpeed intends to provide an even higher level of
service to its healthcare customers through efficient management of
its strategic, tactical, operational and real-time routing
decisions.
MedSpeed focuses exclusively on healthcare, transporting
patient- and business-critical materials such as laboratory
specimens, pharmaceuticals, radiology films, medical records and
supplies. Medical transportation requires meticulous monitoring and
management of safety regulations, temperature and timing. MedSpeed
turned to ORTEC because it needed an end-to-end routing solution
with the flexibility and scalability to handle these
complexities.
"After a detailed evaluation of various solutions, we determined
that ORTEC's Routing and Scheduling was the best solution to meet
our customers' healthcare transportation needs and the needs of
MedSpeed," explains Jake Crampton, CEO, MedSpeed. "We strive to
provide the highest level of service possible at the best value and
consistently look for technology and business improvements that can
help us achieve that goal. The ORTEC Routing and Scheduling
solution will enable us to continue to provide the most
cost-effective, technologically advanced solution ."
"We consider it a great privilege to work with MedSpeed, a
company with a sharp focus on improving efficiencies and customer
satisfaction levels through technological innovation," says Don
Addington, ORTEC President of the Americas. "By configuring the
Routing and Scheduling solution to address MedSpeed's unique
business attributes, we will help them achieve both of those
goals."
About ORTEC
ORTEC is a leading provider of strategic, tactical and
operational route planning and scheduling, services planning, and
pallet and load building software solutions. Our solutions and
consulting services result in optimal route plans, real-time fleet
scheduling and visibility, more efficiently built pallets and
fuller truckloads. In addition, ORTEC solutions enable increased
delivery forecasting accuracy and improved customer service. ORTEC
provides best-of-breed, custom-made and ORTEC SAP-embedded and
certified solutions, supported by global strategic partnerships. In
the area of advanced planning solutions, ORTEC has over 1,350
customers worldwide, over 550 employees and offices in Europe,
North America, Asia and the Pacific Region. For more information
about ORTEC visit www.ortec.com/us.
About MedSpeed
MedSpeed is an ISO-certified, technology-enhanced healthcare
transportation partner that supports health systems, such as
integrated delivery networks, hospitals, accountable care
organizations, blood banks and laboratories, at the highest levels.
For more than ten years, MedSpeed has successfully applied a
sophisticated analytical and process-oriented, operations-focused
approach to healthcare transportation to improve margins by cutting
costs and inefficiencies and improving care delivery. Governed
under the principles of Lean Six Sigma, MedSpeed consistently
delivers operational quality, economic value and strategic
advantage to its customers.
ORTEC Contact:
Shaunna Morgan
ORTEC
404-736-9827
[email protected]