Case Study: SCL Health achieves cost savings and improved supply-chain data quality with Alteryx

SCL Health Uses Alteryx to Create a Data Infrastructure

SCL Health’s Supply Chain team, responsible for managing the health system’s non‑labor spend, faced fragmented ERP and third‑party data after a 2016 merger, slow, manual Excel reporting, and limited analytics to identify savings and reduce variation. The team partnered with IT’s Analytics and Data Innovations group to find a scalable way to deliver timely, actionable insights to hospital leaders and clinicians.

Using Alteryx to stitch item and pricing data, run 40–50 nightly workflows, and feed a daily Tableau KPI workbook and invoice‑discrepancy dashboard, SCL automated data corrections, price comparisons, and project analyses. Results include eliminating a $60K software subscription, $100K annual savings from a 17% reduction in invoice discrepancies, $10K saved from fewer wrong‑vendor POs, a 40% improvement in price‑load accuracy, a 7% increase in spend under contract, and significant reductions in item records and manual effort.

SCL Health

Kris Walker

Director, Systems and Analytics - Supply Chain