[clari.nb.general] Australia: 20% of Hospitals Automated by Johnson & Johnson

newsbytes@clarinet.com (02/04/90)

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, 1990 FEB 2 (NB) -- Medical supply
company Johnson and Johnson has installed its OPAL (Order
Placement by Automated Link) system in 20 percent of
Australian hospitals. 

The system links J&J's minicomputer with a remote PC or network
in client hospitals enabling them to place orders and receive deliveries 
within three days, rather than up to a month with other suppliers,
claims J&J.

In addition, the system allows users to maintain much lower
inventories, reducing tied-up capital and out-of-date or
unneeded stock. Users, they say, are experiencing ordering
production cost reductions of around 40 percent as the
system confirms price, availability and other information
in real-time.

(Paul Zucker/19900202)