Spend Optimization and Crosswalking
Hospitals often struggle to fully understand where spend inefficiencies exist because purchasing data, product records, and reference standards are misaligned. Variations in naming, identifiers, and supplier catalogs make it difficult to compare like items, consolidate spend, or identify savings opportunities with confidence. Symmetric Health Solutions enables spend optimization by crosswalking fragmented product data into a unified, standardized structure that reveals true cost drivers and actionable opportunities.
Creating a Unified View of Spend Across Disparate Data Sources
Spend optimization begins with alignment. Symmetric crosswalks item records across suppliers, contracts, internal catalogs, and reference standards so organizations can see how products relate to one another regardless of how they are labeled or sourced. By normalizing identifiers and attributes, the platform eliminates duplication and exposes true product equivalency across datasets.
This unified view allows teams to move beyond surface-level reporting and understand how spend accumulates across comparable products, vendors, and categories.
When similar products are grouped inconsistently, cost variation remains hidden. Symmetric applies standardized classifications and enriched attributes to create accurate product groupings that reflect functional and clinical similarity. This comparability enables organizations to identify pricing differences, supplier overlap, and opportunities to rationalize spend that would otherwise remain obscured.
With consistent product groupings, teams gain clarity into where variation exists and where optimization efforts should be focused.
Revealing True Cost Drivers Through Product-Level Comparability
Symmetric’s crosswalking capabilities support a wide range of spend optimization efforts by connecting disparate data elements into a common framework. Hospitals can evaluate purchasing behavior across facilities, suppliers, or time periods with confidence that the data reflects true equivalency rather than naming inconsistencies.
This intelligence supports initiatives such as supplier consolidation, SKU rationalization, contract alignment, and long-term category optimization planning.
Supporting Spend Optimization Initiatives With Crosswalked Intelligence
Sustaining Optimization With Continuously Maintained Crosswalks
Product data changes constantly as suppliers introduce new items, modify catalogs, or update identifiers. Symmetric maintains and refreshes crosswalks over time to ensure spend analysis and optimization efforts remain accurate as the market evolves. This ongoing stewardship prevents data drift and ensures insights remain reliable well beyond a single analysis cycle.