Ordering, shipping and receiving were manual, inefficient, and difficult to manage.
The Solution
Using Method, the team can now easily compare prices across multiple suppliers while keeping costs controlled.
The Results
Averaging over $900 in savings per month on supply costs.
Reduced time spent comparing prices across multiple supplier sites.
Easy to manage all orders through a single platform.
“We had a short demo and said “Yeah, this makes sense for us.” We were actually a little skeptical at first about whether or not this was too good to be true.”
Dr. Hunter Weber
Situational Overview
Dental Solutions of Central Park is a single-location, independently owned practice in Aurora, CO, just outside of Denver. It is owned and run by Dr. Hunter Weber and his father, Dr. Blake Weber.
While Aurora is a populous suburb of Denver, the patient population is still limited by geography. Attracting new patients and retaining existing patients requires regular investments in marketing, purchasing new equipment, and hiring and training staff.
Challenges
Running a single-location practice has its own unique set of challenges.
In addition to identifying ways to increase production revenue, Dental Solutions wanted to explore opportunities to decrease costs and improve their overall profit margins.
Due to their location, increasing production was easier said than done so the team focused instead on managing their own internal spending to uncover potential savings.
They also were interested in alleviating some of the pressure their staff was feeling by implementing more efficient processes in the office.
"Our primary interest was in saving money,” Dr. Weber said. “But we also wanted to get everything on the same platform. Before, we were manually checking different vendors and having to go to their independent sites to do that, which took up a lot of time."
Solution
Cost control versus production increase
Drs. Weber decided to join Synergy Dental Partners to advise them on cost-cutting strategies across their practice spectrum.
Through Synergy, they were introduced to Method. Initially, they were most attracted to Method’s cost comparison tool, which makes it easy to see what different suppliers charge for the same products and select the best price.
They had been primarily ordering all supplies through a single supplier because of how time-consuming it was to have to look up pricing across multiple sites, but they knew they were likely overpaying a lot of the time.
"We were a little bit worried about our relationship with our primary supplier,” said Dr. Weber “[They’ve] always helped us out with doing returns to manufacturers and maintenance, but we haven't had any issues there, which is great."
Once the office staff responsible for ordering supplies got up to speed, they realized they were not only saving hundreds of dollars every month but being able to place all the orders through a single platform was saving them a ton of time and headaches.Outcome/Results
Results
Implementation to immediate impact
Even Dr. Weber was surprised at how fast the team saw the impact of Method. "When we first signed up,” he said “We thought we might save a little bit but we weren't sure of how big of a difference it was going to be.”
Dental Solutions started using Method for all their supply ordering in February 2023. To date, they have averaged a monthly saving on supply costs of over $900 and are projected to save over $10,000 in their first full year working with Method.
“The first couple of months, I did some rough calculations on my own but didn't have a definitive figure. Now Method analytics shows exactly what we saved”.
Dr. Weber’s overall sentiment? Positive: “We won a few wins, which is pretty great overall.”
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