Ongoing margin pressure has fundamentally reshaped the expectations placed on healthcare supply chain leaders, elevating the function from transactional execution to a central driver of financial performance and enterprise value. In response, leading IDNs are focusing on identifying areas of high clinical and operational variation, implementing targeted guardrails, and standardizing utilization practices in ways that preserve quality while improving cost efficiency. This requires closer collaboration between supply chain, clinical leadership, and operational stakeholders to ensure that decisions are both evidence-based and financially sustainable.

Join healthcare supply chain leaders as they share real-world approaches to managing margin pressure while strengthening collaboration across clinical, operational, and supplier relationships.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify sources of clinical and operational variation that contribute to margin pressure within the health system. 
2. Analyze approaches for establishing utilization guardrails that support both cost management and quality outcomes. 
3. Evaluate strategies for leveraging data to improve standardization and reduce unwarranted variation across categories. 
4. Develop frameworks for aligning supply chain and clinical stakeholders to improve financial and operational performance.