iMANY ADVANCED MEMBERSHIP
What does Advanced Membership do?
Memberships are in constant change and maintaining accurate membership eligibility on eligibility sets and contracts ensures accurate membership pricing. iMANY Advanced Membership automates and streamlines membership management, helping minimize inaccurate payments that lead to government pricing inaccuracies
What is Advanced Membership?
Pharmaceutical companies enter into agreements with GPOs that can have over 100,000 members with constant membership changes. Membership pricing issues are one of the key reasons for incorrect contract pricing and inaccurate payments that lead to government pricing inaccuracies.
For whom is Advanced Membership designed?
iMANY Advanced Membership is designed for membership administrator or membership analysts that require a flexible solution that enhances accuracy and automates membership management.
KEY BENEFITS
Membership accuracy
Leverage iMANY Advanced Membership to ensure membership information is current and accurate to reduce overlapping and ineligible membership issues.
Rapid application of membership modifications
Rapid application of demographics and characteristics provides accurate rebate calculations for market share and demographic-based scenarios. iMANY Advanced Membership enables rapid membership roster downloads and updates to contracts and price group eligibility on a consistent basis, dramatically reducing membership errors found during chargeback and rebate validations.
Increased Pricing Accuracy
iMANY Advanced Membership ensures membership accuracy in pricing scenarios that drive precise admin fee payments to buying groups and GPOs; and reducing invalid pricing of indirect and direct chargeback contracts.
Reduce Deductions and Re-submittals
iMANY Advanced Membership driven precise and accurate membership management reduces chargeback pricing errors, re-submittals, auto deductions by better wholesaler and distributor contract notification.
KEY FEATURES
Multi-tier hierarchy management
Import and manage n-tier membership hierarchy and manage complex contracts.
Integration with Eligibility Rule Sets
Integrating iMANY Advanced Membership with Eligibility Rule Sets automates contract eligibility eliminating the need for user-intervention in addition and removal of members in contract scenarios
Seamless integration with iMANY ContractSphere
iMANY Advanced Membership is an integral component of iMANY ContractSphere and tightly integrated with iMANY Contract Manager, CARS Chargebacks and CAR Rebates with shared services and a single system of record for commercial and government contracting.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Multi-format support for incoming membership files
iMANY Advanced Membership helps overcome the lack of an industry standard for membership file by providing the ability to map multi-format membership file to determine membership eligibility.
- Records: Defines the categories of information (i.e., record types) found in the transaction file—header, detail, and trailer.
- Mappings: Maps the locations in the transaction repository to or from which the transaction file data is imported or exported.
- Conversions: User-defines data conversion before importing the data into or exporting the data from the transaction repository.
Flexibility in defining Source Trading Partners
A Source Trading Partner is the source of membership information and only certain trading partners submit membership files. iMANY Advanced Membership provides the ability for users to easily define a default configuration for the Source Trading Partners. Key information including default import type, mapping set, document information, post import processing, compare processing, matching logic, and compare-to-previous-options are all definable in a Source Detail window.
User definable and initiated import
When a new membership file is ready to be imported, iMANY Advanced Membership provides the ability for the user to define the details and initiates the import in real time; view the raw data that has been imported and be notified of import failures.
Run validations during the compare process
Membership files contain new members, updates to existing members, and/or deletion of members. iMANY Advanced Membership identifies the matching logic for the source business unit and starts the compare process; suggests insertion of a new trading partner for any row that has no match; for rows with only one match but changes propose a change; and for rows that have multiple matches provide an error
Apply Membership proposals
Once a file has been compared, items can be applied to the system. Once a row has been applied, it will be processed further downstream (Trading Partner Detail, Membership, and Eligibility Sets). iMANY Advanced Membership provides users the flexibility to correct rows that have errors or reject the row altogether.
Streamlined integration with ERP systems
Trading partners are often only an indirect buyer of the manufactures products and for system architectures where the ERP system is the system of record for trading partners, iMANY Advanced Membership provides an Export to ERP option to support trading partners being maintained in the in the ERP system.
