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Performance depends on aligning people, tools and workflows with the reality of how supply chains now operate.

How do you measure the environmental impact of a product? Is it simply how long it exists before it decomposes or how much energy it takes to produce it? Who is responsible for that impact: the one ...

With hospital margins shrinking or disappearing due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, healthcare organizations are looking for ways to trim costs and achieve operational efficiencies. Even with states ...

Managing the supply chain is a crucial process for a company because an optimized supply chain results in lower costs and a faster production cycle. The entities in the supply chain can include ...

For much of modern healthcare history, supply chain operations were treated as a necessary background function, focused on purchasing, inventory management and keeping clinical shelves stocked. Today, ...

Metric supply chain leaders say CEOs should track supply cost as a percentage of net patient revenue to manage expenses and protect margins.

Supply chains leaders are facing unprecedented pressures as they navigate challenges such as policy changes, rising costs and tariff implications. This is causing health systems to rethink traditional ...

As programmatic capabilities evolve, decision-making is no longer confined to a single point in the transaction. Some decisions still sit naturally within the DSP, while others may benefit from ...