SpecAdvisor Plan and Manage Medical Equipment
One Software Solution for Medical Equipment Planning
Facility Projects Today Are More Challenging to Plan, Manage, and Deliver
4Tower’s Superior Capabilities Provide End-to-End Solutions that Improve Your Skills and Support Better Project Outcomes.
Integrated Product Sourcing & Planning System
Our product sourcing and planning system provides end-to-end solutions for facility planning and construction projects. Seamlessly manage capital equipment selection, budgeting, design & planning, procurement, and logistics coordination of medical equipment. Our platform’s configuration includes two highly integrated components that ensure data integrity, seamless workflows, and stakeholder consensus.
SpecAdvisor
- Complete Planning Toolset: Designed by planners for managing medical equipment across all phases of a construction or renovation project – from concept & budget, design and drawing coordination, procurement & logistics, through construction and installation.
- Cloud-based: The 4Tower platform has been purposely developed to ensure secure data handling without downloading any components to your
computer devices or network. - Continuous Improvement: This is core to product development at Four Tower. Enjoy all future enhancements at no additional cost, with many
improvements coming directly from the user community.
SpecSource
- Extensive Catalog: Over 50,000 single product items and 4,000 vendors, with an integrated auto product submission feature for rapid new product integration.
- New Products: Integrated auto product submission feature that supports a less than two business day turn-around creation of new product items.
- Other Categories: Ability to track and manage other products like Kitchen, Furniture, IT, Artwork, and more.
- Custom Products: Create your custom products – and immediately use them in your projects.
- Accurate and Extensive Data: Our product items contain over 150 specification and data points, providing clients with a new level of accuracy and customized management, tracking, and reporting.
SpecAdvisor Enables you to
Plan For New Equipment
Use our product database, sourced directly from vendors and manufacturers, to build your project.
Procuring Equipment
Efficiently run reports, produce necessary documentation, and track essential metrics on procured equipment.
Manage Your Assets
Track useful life, run maintenance analyses, and deliver a tangible asset for client hand-off.
Planning with SpecAdvisor
Plan projects of any scale, anywhere, anytime
Leverage the Grid
Quickly filter and access data, save views, make changes, and run reports
Build & Scale Quickly
Use vendor templates, drag and drops, and mass updates to build quickly
Procuring with SpecAdvisor
Procure Your Equipment with Ease
Approved Expenditures
Send a requisition through an approval chain, get approval, and convert it to a purchase order
Generate Purchase Orders
Intuitively build a PO, attach invoices and other important documents, and send it to the vendor
Integrate with External Systems
Leverage our API to send a requisition or purchase order for fulfillment processing in another system.
Managing with SpecAdvisor
Stay on Top of Your Facility or System Budget & Assets
Request Budget Expenditures
Budget for upcoming fiscal periods and send requests through approval chains
Approve Requests
Quickly view and approve outstanding budget requests and get your team working
Consolidate Assets
Log important dates, track maintenance information, and run capital cost analysis
Additional Tools
Use our Revit Plugin to Make Drawing Coordination Easier
Start Building in Revit
Create a project in Revit, and export it into SpecAdvisor, to start equipment planning and procurement
Import/Export as Needed
Send as much information back and forth between systems to keep your rooms and items up to date
Use SpecAdvisor Families
Source new equipment in SpecAdvisor and import that equipment into a Revit project with its family
Do More with SpecAdvisor
Use one software solutions for full-cycle equipment management
User Friendly System
Build your system with the most powerful, user-friendly system available.
Full Project Life-cycle
Move your project seamlessly from budgeting and planning to procurement and asset management.
No Limitations
Plan any domestic or international project anytime, anywhere
Features and capabilities
Client-Centric Support and Customization:
- Personalized Onboarding: Client’s confirm our high customer satisfaction is due to 4Tower’s approach of utilizing dedicated client-success representatives who have planning experience.
- Existing Projects: We provide direct assistance with importing your existing projects – whether from spreadsheets or other planning systems.
- Ultimate Flexibility: Highly configurable tools, including custom reporting, hospital-standard template development, and mass editing, empower users to tailor the platform to their specific needs.
- How You Work: The 4Tower user interface screens can be modified to support your specific workflows and staff preferences across all project phases.
Efficient Collaboration and Decision-Making:
- Integrated Specification Platform: provides a single source of truth and normalized product information, promoting collaboration among all project stakeholders, leading to more efficient planning and minimized errors.
- Drive Standardization: Create standard room templates based on your organization’s preferred products or GPO contracts.
- Advanced Reporting: Utilize the most flexible reporting, change tracking, and intuitive interfaces to streamline workflows, communications and ensure informed decision-making.
- Software Collaboration: Our open architecture and API capability allows integration with other platforms like Revit, Smartsheet, CMSS, ERP, and construction management software.
Other Key Features
- Revit Synchronization: Use Four Tower’s Revit plugin (Sync) to automatically update BIM models, simplifying the review process with color-coded changes and exact matching of quantities and locations.
- Multiple Markets: Unique capabilities to manage domestic, international, and federal projects with language, currency, and metric support.
- Project Scalability: Produce and manage projects of any type, size, or complexity (healthcare, research, specialty, education). The SpecAdvisor platform can also create cost estimates for annual capital projects.
- Designed For Speed: According to our customers, the 4Tower software is the fastest system on the market – saving them noticeable time and improving productivity.
- 4Tower Academy: A comprehensive library of online User Guides that empower you to become a platform expert. Whether starting or seeking to refine your skills, these guides are accessible anytime to meet your learning needs.
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Providing equipment budgeting, planning, procurement, and asset management software solutions.