Supply Chain Priorities for High-Reliability Organizations in Healthcare

Realize savings by applying supply chain discipline to purchasing activity across every category of spend.

Broadening the span of supply chain control increases the percentage of an organization’s spend across all spend categories and purchase channels that are managed by its procurement department. This requires expanding the footprint of spend that is under the supply chain's responsibility and visibility while providing guidance in the sourcing phase to ensure a sustainable supply chain and ethical procurement with diversity, fair trade, price competition and compliance to purchasing policies.

Enforce compliance from the front end of the procurement process and orchestrate demand in response to disruptions.

Rigid formulary control entails both standardization in supply chain management as well as the standardization of suppliers, items and prices to ensure coverage across the demand footprint while limiting rogue options and centralizing all purchasing channels. Control the front end of the procurement lifecycle to ensure all items are approved for use and purchased from the right source at the contracted price.

Leverage technology to enable the flow of data across the supply chain ecosystem.

Given the volume and velocity of change in healthcare data, it must be connected from a single source of truth. It is important to keep data agnostic and autonomous between the data publisher and subscriber. Operational efficiency is gained through the interoperability of supply chain data between external partners and internal clinical, financial, and operational systems. Leverage software for supply chain automation to enable the flow of data across these organizational and system boundaries.