Healthcare supply chain leaders have largely reverted to pre-COVID practices despite ongoing vulnerabilities, while simultaneously lacking the strategic sourcing skills and upstream visibility needed to build true resilience. Dr. Randy Bradley, from the University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business, explains why healthcare organizations remain dangerously unprepared for emerging threats like sophisticated cargo theft syndicates and global container shortages.

• Healthcare organizations have returned to pre-COVID practices despite talking about resilience
• Most healthcare entities still have no greater visibility into their upstream supply chain than before the pandemic
• Critical shortage of strategic sourcing professionals versus simple buyers who only execute existing contracts
• Suppliers openly admit health systems sign contracts with unfavorable terms they don't even recognize
• Cargo theft at record levels with sophisticated crime syndicates altering electronic bills of lading
• Automation increasingly necessary not because it replaces workers but because workers aren't available
• Healthcare must shift from "what's in it for me" to "what's in it for we" through integrated negotiations

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