The Healthcare Supply Chain

Our hospitals are now realizing the importance of a holistic approach to contract management, procurement, logistics and materials management. We have started to use the principles and leading practices of Supply Chain Management to reduce costs and improve services to our organization ....... Hospital CEO

Two kinds of inventory

We jokingly admit we have two kinds – too much of some items and too little of others! We now realize that inventory levels and the associated working capital are outcomes from how well we synchronize our day-to-day supply process with our customer demands ....... CFO at Consumer Packaged Goods company

Supply Chains as Shared Services

Canadian healthcare entities are now realizing the efficiencies that can be gained by sharing back office functions like contract management, procurement, logistics and materials management. Sharing these functions can bring increased leverage to supplier relationships and economies of scale to allow our organization to focus on its primary mission of patient care ....... Hospital Chief of Staff

Supply Chain Transformation

We can’t solve these problems with classical ways of thinking -  we needed an integrated approach that crossed traditional department boundaries. The transformations are about cross-functional work processes and getting the right end-to-end metrics to tell us how well we’re meeting our customer requirements ....... Chair of the Governing Board

The Supply Chain Blueprint

There was a lot of restructuring to do, and the company needed the right skills and the right work processes as the key components for a comprehensive transformation. We developed a time-phased plan to support those components with the right information systems and synchronized the changes to deliver benefits at each milestone along the way ....... President of a mid-sized Canadian food company