About OMU
Owens & Minor University (OMU) was established in 2003 to research, communicate and teach best practices in supply chain management to our teammates and customers. Our faculty members are experienced leaders in supply chain management who work closely with our learning consultants to design and facilitate effective and engaging customized educational programs for healthcare executives, material managers and clinical professionals.
Owens & Minor is a supply-chain solutions company and the nation's leading distributor of name-brand medical and surgical supplies. Through its extensive distribution network, diverse product offering and expertise in technology, logistics and supply-chain management, Owens & Minor serves more than 4,000 acute-care hospital customers nationwide.
One of Owens & Minor's principal goals is to help customers control healthcare costs and improve inventory management. Our company is committed to a mission that calls for strategically-focused expansion of partnerships with new and existing customers through: our core distribution business, our supply-chain consulting and outsourcing team, and other value-added services, such as our Integrated Service Centers. The company is focused on continued increases in the value and quality of services it provides, and expansion and differentiation of our portfolio of products and services in response to the changing needs of our supply chain partners. Owens & Minor also now serves individual healthcare consumers through its direct-to-consumer, diabetes-supply subsidiary. The company is also committed to professional growth of its teammates through a teaching/learning culture that educates and challenges them to be the very best in their fields of endeavor and to understand the dynamics of our marketplace and customer base.
Collaboration to Meet Customer Need
The business teams of Owens & Minor work independently or collaboratively to address specific customer needs, whether for basic distribution management or for innovative logistics consulting or outsourcing engagements. Owens & Minor's diverse service offerings provide our customers with the breadth and depth of solutions they need to streamline their supply chain.
Core Distribution Business
For more than a century, Owens & Minor has engaged in medical and surgical supply distribution, developing an unparalleled level of customer-service and supply-chain experience in healthcare. Today, we handle more than $4 billion in distribution business annually, using state-of-the-art forecasting and planning systems to ensure that customers have the products they need when they need them. Whether engaged simply to deliver products more efficiently, or to design a customized delivery system from bulk distribution to low unit of measure, just-in-time or stockless services, Owens & Minor has the capability to respond to any customer with quality and value.
OMSolutions℠
Through OMSolutions℠, Owens & Minor is expanding its portfolio of supply-chain services to reach far beyond the conventional boundaries of physical distribution. With a vast storehouse of logistics expertise and technological capabilities, OMSolutions℠ supports customers who want to maximize operational efficiencies and cost savings in a broad range of supply chain activities such as ordering, product standardization, contract compliance and management of product inventories. Using existing and customized solutions, OMSolutions℠ targets a hospital's biggest supply chain cost-drivers to help eliminate redundancy and other inefficiencies - putting the right people, products, technology and processes to work in the right places at the right time. OMSolutions℠ offers a full complement of consultation and implementation services ranging, for instance, from business planning, benchmarking and total operating room redesign, to management of all of a hospital's supply chain activities.
Our Place in the Healthcare Arena
Owens & Minor has established itself as the industry leader in healthcare supply chain management, gaining recognition for its use of technology. For four successive years, Owens & Minor ranked number one in the healthcare sector in InformationWeek magazine's annual survey of the nation's top 500 technology leaders that provide innovative information solutions for their customers. Customers agree that Owens & Minor is an industry leader. Last year, 97 percent of customers surveyed said they were satisfied with the quality of service they received from our company. Stated simply, Owens & Minor has become the best in its industry at getting vital medical and surgical supplies from the manufacturer to the patient's bedside. Using technology, logistics management and top-notch customer service, Owens & Minor focuses on its principal business arena-the supply chain-empowering its customers to focus on their primary mission, patient care.