WHO IS BERTHA

Although BERTHA is an acronym, it is also the name for the entire BIG process, from the gathering of hospital submitted data, development of industry files (both inventory accumulative and vendor based), and collection of the inventory counts to finalizing the deliverables... Each of these steps is very complex and detailed oriented. The initial "cleansing" of the original data consists of identifying duplicates, pricing issues and unit of measure variances which would cause the final valuation of the inventory to be incorrect. Although it may be impossible to find all issues, BERTHA is fantastic at eliminating many of these. All of this prepared data is loaded into BERTHA's onsite inventory collection module where each of BIG's Inventory Specialists use it to verify each of their entries to insure accuracy... Verifies each entry against the files previously cleansed to insure accuracy. If an item is undocumented (UDI) in these files, BERTHA insures enough information is captured for..