Supply chain expense savings reductions are the backbone of all supply chain departments, but unfortunately there are less and less savings being generated by most healthcare organizations’ price and standardization initiatives. That’s why savings beyond price is the future of supply chain expense management. However, to generate these brand-new utilization savings, innovative technology is needed to identify, monitor, and then manage your clinical supply utilization misalignments (CSUM) or the wasteful and inefficient consumption, misuse, misapplication, or value mismatches in your supply streams. Once you decide to attack these unwanted and unneeded utilization costs, evaluating, selecting, and deploying new clinical supply utilization management software can be daunting. Here are 5 deployment best practices we recommend to help you on this journey: