Healthcare supply chains are changing – Fast! Our most recent insights highlight how top priorities are shifting and how teams are addressing them in 2025.
Nearly 100 healthcare supply chain leaders are sounding the alarm on the biggest problems and opportunities in the field.
69% believe that supply chain challenges will stay consistent or worsen in 2025
Only 28% are confident supply chain professionals can tackle complex challenges effectively
56% say their cost savings goals will be higher in 2025 in comparison to 2024
Only 33% strongly agree they can accurately track supply chain cost savings
Only 20% strongly agree their physicians and clinicians are supportive of supply chain activities
Only 22% strongly agree their executive leadership understands the challenges the supply chain team faces
Supply chain disruptions
Cost savings pressure and inflation
TOP PRIORITIES
FOR SUPPLY
CHAINS
AND
WHAT TO DO
ABOUT IT:
IMPROVING PATIENT
OUTCOMES
Integrate quality and outcomes metrics into value analysis to ensure outcomes are a measurable part of evaluation, sometimes making the decision to convert to clinically superior products despite higher costs.
STANDARDIZING
PROCESS
By reexamining, defining, standardizing, and consolidating processes, organizations are able to decrease inefficiency while simultaneously supporting resiliency to hedge against risk.
COST
SAVINGS
When traditional cost savings levers have gone dry, organizations are looking to utilization improvements, delivering better data insights through digital transformation, and strengthening both internal and external partnerships in order to drive impact.
85%
say technology has helped improve supply chain operational efficiency
See the comprehensive set of supply chain
solutions available through symplr.
