In today’s complex healthcare environment, suppliers need more than access — they need strategic alignment, data-driven insight, and meaningful partnerships. This session provides a high-level overview of Vizient and how suppliers can successfully engage with us to accelerate growth and performance.

Attendees will gain insight into how Vizient connects suppliers to a broad network of healthcare providers across acute and non-acute care, and how our integrated approach — spanning contracting, spend management, analytics, and collaboration — helps translate access into opportunity. We’ll explore how suppliers can align with evolving health system priorities, demonstrate measurable value beyond price, and leverage Vizient resources, tools, and teams to strengthen visibility, utilization, and long-term partnership success. Whether you are currently contracted with Vizient or exploring opportunities to engage, this session will provide clarity on how to navigate partnership pathways and position your organization for sustainable growth.

Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize integrated platform and service offerings across contracting, analytics, and performance improvement to identify strategic partnership opportunities.
2. Evaluate how to align supplier value propositions with evolving health system priorities beyond pricing to demonstrate differentiated impact.
3. Apply strategies for leveraging GPO resources, tools, and teams to enhance product visibility, drive utilization, and strengthen relationships.
4. Develop actionable approaches to navigate partnership pathways and position yourself for sustainable growth within the marketplace.

Volatility is no longer episodic—it’s structural. Tariffs, shortages, pricing shifts and geopolitical disruption are reshaping the healthcare supply chain in real time. For contracted suppliers, the winners in this environment won’t be those reacting fastest to yesterday’s data, but those partnering into intelligence that enables earlier signals, smarter planning and more predictable growth.

In this session, Premier leaders will unveil how our new strategic partnership with Palantir is redefining what it means to work with a GPO. Together, we are embedding real-time, AI-powered decision intelligence directly into supply chain workflows, moving beyond fragmented data, manual reconciliation and backward-looking reports toward a shared intelligence layer that benefits both providers and suppliers.

For suppliers, this shift unlocks earlier visibility into demand shifts and potential shortages; fewer last-minute exceptions and substitutions; cleaner data and reduced transaction friction; clearer insight into utilization and contract intent; and stronger alignment with provider sourcing strategies. Most importantly, it enables deeper contract penetration and smarter market intelligence, helping suppliers protect share, plan confidently and grow in uncertain conditions.

Learning Objectives:
1. Analyze how AI-powered decision intelligence is transforming healthcare supply chains and creating competitive advantages for aligned suppliers.
2. Identify specific benefits of real-time data integration for suppliers, including demand visibility, contract penetration, and market planning capabilities.
3. Evaluate how Premier's partnership with Palantir reduces transaction friction and enhances supplier-provider alignment through shared intelligence.
4. Apply strategic insights to position your organization for earlier engagement, smarter planning, and sustained growth amid market volatility.

Moderated by Jennel Lengle, Vice President Supply Chain Board, this panel of member health system leaders will explore how a clinician-led sourcing model translates bedside insight into stronger purchasing decisions. Panelists will share practical examples of physician engagement, variation management, and evidence-based selection that improve consistency and patient outcomes.

The discussion will also address the shift from transactional vendors to true supplier partners, clarifying what health systems expect from strategic collaborators in performance, transparency, innovation, and shared accountability. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how prioritizing clinical expertise strengthens adoption, removes unnecessary cost, and drives measurable enterprise impact.

Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize how clinician-led sourcing models improve purchasing decisions, product adoption, and clinical consistency across health systems.
2. Identify practical strategies for physician engagement and variation management that drive evidence-based product selection and outcomes.
3. Distinguish between transactional vendor relationships and strategic supplier partnerships based on health system expectations for performance and accountability.
4. Apply insights on clinical engagement and supplier collaboration to strengthen adoption, reduce unnecessary costs, and drive enterprise impact.