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Top Challenges Facing Healthcare Supply Chain Teams

See the key healthcare supply chain insights from our 2024 survey to industry leaders.

Discover the top pain points and opportunities identified by healthcare supply chain leaders. Nearly 100 supply chain leaders across hospitals and health systems provided their insights.

    What supply chain leaders reported

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    63% say cost savings is their organization’s top supply chain priority in 2024.

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    32% say their supply chain team is still not fully staffed to pre-pandemic levels.

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    Only 10% say they are very confident their staff is educated to identify and remediate vendor non-compliance.

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    54% say they are only somewhat confident they have a unified approach to new product evaluation and introduction across their organization.

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    Only 19% say they are very confident their physicians/clinicians are supportive of supply chain activities.

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    Only 25% say they are very confident their GPO pricing is competitive.

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    Only 32% say they are very confident their organization is accurately tracking savings targets associated with their capital and operational budgets.

    Biggest challenges for healthcare supply chain

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    Fighting margin pressures

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    Inconsistent processes

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    Staffing & resourcing

    Most significant barriers to evidence based decision making:

    • Stakeholders having different priorities and operating in silos
    • Lack of available data
    • Process and governance aren’t standardized

    Biggest challenges for healthcare supply chain

    Creating a united front
    for decision making with data and collaborative mechanisms

    Leveraging technology
    to transform manual processes and accelerate supply chain workflows

    Focusing on strategy
    by freeing up supply chain teams from playing “catch up”

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