Thousands of drugs, medical supplies, and devices move across hospitals, pharmacies, and outpatient facilities, where a single shortage can reach the patient. Aera senses changes across demand, inventory, and supply; recommends actions that keep critical items available and control costs; and executes them in your systems.
The data already exists in your systems. The cost lands in what happens between the data and the action.
Seasonal illness, outbreaks, and procedure volumes shift what hospitals and pharmacies use faster than per-facility planning can follow.
Batch-level expiry is tracked facility by facility, often by hand, so drugs and supplies nearing their date surface only when the write-off is certain.
Single-source items, tariff changes, and geopolitical events can cut off a critical supply with little warning, while procurement still responds case by case.
Aera automates the routine decisions, augments the complex ones, and executes both in real time. Healthcare teams see the payoff in five areas of the business.
Forecasts refine continuously across drug categories, supply lines, and care settings, drawing on patient admissions, procedure volumes, and seasonal outbreaks.
Point-of-care usage, outbreak alerts, and supplier order activity refresh near-term forecasts on daily and weekly horizons, with inventory deployment and replenishment adjusted while the shift is still unfolding.
Batch-level expiry dates across hospitals and pharmacies are matched against projected demand, with inter-facility transfers and priority allocation recommended before a drug or supply is written off.
Supplier performance, single-source dependencies, tariffs, and geopolitical risk are monitored continuously, with alternate sourcing and safety stock adjustments recommended before a disruption reaches the point of care.
Routine forecasting, replenishment, and sourcing decisions run without a planner in the loop, so supply teams spend their time on the calls that protect patient care.
With Aera, we can see exactly where the product is, and depending on where that product is in the supply chain, dynamically calculate when we can expect it.
Prepackaged decision logic your teams can run on day one, tuned to demand surges, expiring drugs and supplies, and single-source dependencies.
Recommends adjusted forecasts based on real-time signals across drug categories and care settings, refined across hierarchies and time horizons.
Updates near-term forecasts on daily and weekly horizons as demand shifts, and adjusts inventory deployment and replenishment plans to match.
Recommends alternate sourcing or safety stock adjustments to maintain continuity, with disruption risk evaluated against projected demand.
Recommends inter-facility transfers that move expiring inventory to high-demand locations, and initiates disposal workflows for expired or unusable stock.
How decision intelligence handles demand surges, expiring drugs and supplies, and supplier risk, with four Skills built for healthcare.
What changes when forecasting, inventory, and sourcing run as one continuous process instead of separate steps.
Aera CEO Fred Laluyaux joins leaders from UnitedHealth Group, Premier, GHX, and others on cutting costs through better incentives, transparency, and AI.
