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Top Hospital Supply Chain Challenges and the Solutions

Long Beach, California, manages 40% of the nation's cargo containers entering. At the end of 2021,...

The Ultimate Guide to Managing Obsolete Medical Supplies

At a typical company, 20-30% of all inventory is obsolete and wasted. Obsolete inventory has posed...

3 Strategies for healthcare Supply Chain Management

How can hospitals increase price transparency amongst all the different departments and people? By...

Healthcare PAR Inventory Management - Best Practices

Did you know that only two percent of companies were knowledgeable beyond Tier 2 of their supply...

5 Healthcare Supply Chain Basics that Result in Excellence

If supply chains had been more reliable during the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer people potentially...

How to Build Resilience in the Healthcare Supply Chain

The Covid-19 pandemic broke the already-stressed global healthcare supply chain. For months,...

An Efficient Supply Chain Equals a Value-Add for Healthcare Institutions

American healthcare organizations unintentionally waste $765 billion each year on drugs and...

5 Common Healthcare Supply Chain Issues

In March of 2020, the WHO called on industries and governments to increase their manufacturing by...

Strategic Visions: A Deeper Look at the Role of Supply Chain Leaders in Healthcare

A recent survey in Medical Economics verifies what inventory managers suspected. Supply chain...