Strategic sourcing is a necessity in today’s uniquely complex healthcare supply chain landscape to ensure optimal supplier relationships, reduce costs, and guarantee the availability of high-quality products and services. Staying at the forefront of these strategic initiatives requires a knowledge of recent innovations and unique approaches to sourcing that transcend traditional supply sourcing practices. 

Beyond getting a good price, explore sourcing strategies that your organization can implement to improve visibility, mitigate risk, and ensure transparency with supplier partners.

Learning Objectives:
1. Evaluate your organization’s current approach to strategic sourcing.
2. Define supplier transparency as it relates to strategic sourcing innovation.
3. Analyze current best practices in strategic sourcing and latest developments in different sourcing categories.
4. Identify the long-term impact of an innovative approach to strategic sourcing in your organization.

Breakfast will be served at 7:00 AM with discussions starting at 7:30 AM.

With a myriad of advanced third-party tools available to optimize operations and improve processes, many supply chain executives struggle to distinguish between strategic solutions and unnecessary add-ons. Supply chain transformation has become an imperative need in an increasingly competitive industry, leading many to adopt these third-party tools within their organization. 

Share personal experiences and glean impactful insights from your peers in this exchange of best practices for third-party supply chain tools.

Learning Objectives:
1. Compare your experiences with third-party tools used by your peers.
2. Evaluate insights gained to determine action steps moving forward. 
3. List third-party tools that have proven beneficial to peer organizations. 
4. Analyze alternatives to third-party tools your organization currently utilizes.

The ability to effectively track and take action based on your organization’s operational performance data is a task that can be overwhelming for many supply chain executives. This task involves not only obtaining and managing relevant KPIs, but also displaying them on a user-friendly dashboard in real time, providing a graphic for visualizing and understanding crucial data. 

Hear from your peers and share your own successes and struggles involving KPIs and dashboards in a collaborative and conversational exchange of ideas and best practices.

Learning Objectives:
1. Evaluate the benefits of an effectively implemented dashboard in your organization.
2. Analyze KPI and dashboard successes and struggles of peers to determine an action plan for improving your own platforms.
3. Identify areas in your organization where important data is being overlooked or not included in your dashboard.
4. Outline the process behind determining effective and relevant KPIs.