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Guest: Joseph Carr, Vice President of Supply Chain at Akron Children’s Hospital

Topic: Product requisition and value analysis processes

Outline:

- Intro to Joseph & Background

- Tell us about Operational Excellence at Akron Children’s

- Two Projects for Improvement

* Product Requisition

* Value Analysis

- Product Requisition

* Challenge: No hierarchy in the product req process

* Kaison Event – full process mapping (OE conducted)

* 80k specials per year

* Significant opportunity for savings/avoidance addressing a small percentage (5-10%)

- Value Analysis

* No process in product req to review if VA needs to be involved

* Big need for templating and were able to shift the work from SC & Clinician’s to suppliers

* Next step is automation

- What’s next – Inventory Logistics and Distribution

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April ‘25 Update:

- Spring Summit

- Cohorts

* Recent Cohort Completed (Inventory & Distribution Management)

* Information Systems & Data Management - May

* Finance in Healthcare Supply Chain

* 3-part Supplier Cohort

- CMRP Refresh

- Chapter Relations Committee

- YPAC

- Tariffs Update (Modern Healthcare & Beckers)

- AHRMM Advisory Board Email Outreach

This is the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we speak with Industry Experts to highlight success stories and solutions from the field that advance the healthcare supply chain. And now, Justin Poulin with this month’s Expert…

Guest: George Godfrey, Chief Supply Chain Officer & Corporate Vice President, Financial Shared Services @ Baptist Health South Florida

Topic: AP and SC Synergies and Opportunities Leveraging Automation

Outline:

- Welcome George & Outline Roles (SC and AP)

- In your past Supply Chain Positions, what has been your experience relative to the relationship between SC and AP?

- What did you learn about breakdowns in process and communication when you took on oversight of both departments?

- How were you able to take advantage of early payment discounts and what was the value to the organization?

- What improvements have you made recently relative to P2P leveraging automation?

- What’s next? Asset Management?

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March ‘25 Update:

- SCRC Tarif Report

- Promote AHRMM Spring Summit

- Nothing on the Fringe - Hooray! Baxter IF Fluids & BD Bactec Updates

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This is the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we speak with Industry Experts to highlight success stories and solutions from the field that advance the healthcare supply chain. And now, Justin Poulin with this month’s Expert…

Guest: Tracy Nasarenko, VP of Community Engagement – Healthcare at GS1 US

Topic: Drug Supply Chain Security Act Update

- Provide a brief overview of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act

- Talk about the AHRMM webinar on March 19th – and accompanying resource

- Can you describe the phasing and milestones for us and where we sit today?

* Progress has been made with respect to Pharmacy at the unit level

- Serialized item level traceability

* What is expected of the healthcare supply chain? Where is the gray area? (“confirm” not

well defined)

* What steps should we have taken by now and what should we doing to prepare for the next

phase?

- Where do we stand with med device?

* Standards would be the same

* Would have a positive impact on interoperability in healthcare

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Guest: Brian Zuck, VP of Supply Chain @ Essentia Health

Topic: Supply chain resiliency and stability initiatives.

Outline:

- Resiliency means different things to different people, what does that mean to you?

- You use resiliency and stability in combination – why is that?

- Unique Challenges for Essentia

* Rural Health System

* Staffing Challenges

- 3 Keys to Success

* Robust clinician led committee structure

* Integrated ERP, Warehouse Management, Supply and Demand Planning systems

* Leadership support for Supply Chain – New Highly Automated Distribution System

- The importance of centralized distribution and considerations for rural health systems to implement

* Essentia had a centralized reporting structure to begin with which helped

- Where do you go from here?

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February ‘25 Update:

- Launched a new cohort, in March will be launching the Procurement and Value Analysis cohort

- Updated requirements - All 5 cohorts should take about a year and can fast track you to the CMRP exam

- New Supply Chain Fundamentals (SCF) eLearning Series

- IV Fluids resolved. Everything is back up and running and order fulfillment should be improving!

- Eyes on the Tarifs - where do we stand?