Vendor contribution assessment

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a computer implemented method and component configured to assess the value of goods and services provided by a vendor to a service agency. An embodiment of the method includes the act of storing, in an electronic database, a total-budget value, an amount-paid value, a case-score value, a total-case-score value, a vendor-service-score value, and a total-vendor-services-score value. The embodiment includes selecting a vendor, forming a vendor-score-contribution value, distributing the case value of one or more service items provided by the vendor, and computing the net contribution of the vendor.

1 . A computer implemented method of assessing vendor performance, comprising:
 storing in a first memory a value representing a total amount of money associated with a plurality of vendors for provision of a plurality of service items, provision of at least one service item associated with each vendor of the plurality of vendors;   storing in the first memory for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a budget allocation amount per vendor value representing a ratio of a perceived benefit to a total perceived benefit with respect to the value representing the total amount of money associated with the plurality of vendors;   storing in the first memory for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a distributed case score value representing a ratio of a planned benefit provided by each vendor to a total planned benefit provided by the plurality of benefits;   executing instructions with a computing device, the instructions stored in a second memory, the execution of the instructions arranged to calculate for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a vendor contribution value, the vendor contribution value calculated by mathematically combining a first value representing an amount of money associated with the respective vendor for the provision of the at least one service item associated with the vendor and the distributed case score value associated with the same respective vendor; and   outputting a report, the report reflecting the calculated vendor contribution value of at least one vendor of the plurality of vendors.   
     
     
         2 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1 , comprising:
 storing in the first memory for each vendor of the plurality of vendors the perceived benefit of each service item of the at least one service item provided by the respective vendor.   
     
     
         3 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 2  wherein the storing of the perceived benefit of each service item provided by each vendor occurs over a plurality of days. 
     
     
         4 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1  wherein the perceived benefit of each service item provided by each vendor is a subjective value associated with a client who received the respective service item. 
     
     
         5 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 4  wherein the subjective value associated with the client is a measure of client satisfaction. 
     
     
         6 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1  wherein the total amount of money associated with the plurality of vendors for provision of the plurality of service items is a budgeted amount of money. 
     
     
         7 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1  wherein the provision of the plurality of service items includes delivery of physical therapy services. 
     
     
         8 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1  wherein the provision of the plurality of service items includes delivery of physical therapy devices. 
     
     
         9 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1  wherein the provision of the plurality of service items includes delivery of employment counseling services. 
     
     
         10 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1  wherein outputting the report includes at least one of electronically displaying the report, printing the report, and electronically transferring the report over a communication network. 
     
     
         11 . The computer implemented method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 selecting a first vendor of the plurality of vendors;   selecting a second vendor of the plurality of vendors;   comparing a first vendor-score-contribution value associated with the first vendor to a second vendor-score-contribution value associated with the second vendor;   sorting the first and second vendors according to the first and second vendor-score-contribution values; and   forming the report to reflect the sorted first and second vendors.   
     
     
         12 . A computing system, comprising:
 a processing unit, a memory, and an input/output port configured in hardware and software as several modules, said modules including:   a data collection module configured to:
 store in the memory a value representing a total amount of money associated with a plurality of vendors for the provision of a plurality of service items, the provision of at least one service item associated with each vendor of the plurality of vendors; and 
 store in the memory for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a budget allocation amount per vendor value representing a ratio of a perceived benefit to a total perceived benefit with respect to the value representing the total amount of money associated with the plurality of vendors; 
   a vendor value calculation module configured to:
 store in the memory for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a distributed case score value representing a ratio of a planned benefit provided by each vendor to a total planned benefit provided by the plurality of benefits; and 
 execute instructions with the processing unit, the instructions stored in the memory, the execution of the instructions arranged to calculate for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a vendor contribution value, the vendor contribution value calculated by mathematically combining a first value representing an amount of money associated with the respective vendor for the provision of the at least one service item associated with the vendor and the distributed case score value associated with the same respective vendor; and 
   an output module configured to:
 output a report, the report reflecting the calculated vendor contribution value of at least one vendor of the plurality of vendors. 
   
     
     
         13 . The computing system according to  claim 12 , further comprising:
 a comparison module configured to:
 select a first vendor of the plurality of vendors; 
 select a second vendor of the plurality of vendors; and 
 compare a first vendor-score-contribution value associated with the first vendor to a second vendor-score-contribution value associated with the second vendor. 
   
     
     
         14 . The computing system according to  claim 12  wherein each vendor-score-contribution value is a calculated measure of quality of the at least one service item provided by each respective vendor. 
     
     
         15 . The computing system according to  claim 12  wherein the act of outputting the report includes at least one of electronically displaying the report, printing the report, and electronically transferring the report over a communication network. 
     
     
         16 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium whose stored contents configure a computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
 receiving a value representing a total amount of money associated with a plurality of vendors for the provision of a plurality of service items, the provision of at least one service item associated with each vendor of the plurality of vendors;   receiving for each vendor a perceived benefit for each of the at least one service items associated with each vendor respectively;   calculating for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a budget allocation amount representing a ratio of the perceived benefit to a total perceived benefit with respect to the value representing the total amount of money associated with the plurality of vendors;   calculating for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a distributed case score value representing a ratio of a planned benefit provided by each vendor to a total planned benefit provided by the plurality of benefits;   calculating for each vendor of the plurality of vendors a vendor contribution value by mathematically combining a first value representing an amount of money associated with the respective vendor for the provision of the at least one service item associated with the vendor and the distributed case score value associated with the same respective vendor; and   outputting a report, the report reflecting the calculated vendor contribution value of at least one vendor of the plurality of vendors.   
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to  claim 16  whose stored contents configure the computing system to perform the method, the method comprising:
 sorting the plurality of vendors according to the calculated vendor contribution value for each vendor; and 
 forming the report to reflect the sorted plurality of vendors. 
 
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to  claim 16  wherein the perceived benefit for each of the at least one service items associated with each vendor respectively is a subjective measure of quality of the provision of the respective at least one service items. 
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to  claim 16  wherein the plurality of service items include vocational rehabilitation services. 
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to  claim 16  wherein the computing system to perform the method is administered by a vocational rehabilitation agency.