Join executive supply chain leaders from Ardent Health Services and MD Anderson Cancer Center as they share ideas on reducing inventory cost and improving patient and staff satisfaction using demand planning and inventory management. Discover the impact of factors leading to inaccurate demand signals being sent to the supplier community, as well as challenges surrounding excessive product inventory expiration, increases in overstocks, and product shortages among other operational challenges. 

Learning Objectives
1. Identify the factors behind the amount of inventory carried.

2. Outline applicable ways in which unnecessary costs can be eliminated through process optimization.

3. Analyze psychographic, demographic, and macroeconomic planning models to improve forecasting.

4. Define successful demand planning and inventory management for your IDN.

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