Power Supply

Without supplies there is no surgery. Without products there is no patient care. Welcome to Power Supply – the healthcare supply chain podcast focused on helping you navigate the intricacies of logistics, purchasing, contracting and supplier relationships. Each episode we speak with healthcare executives, supply chain leaders, and innovative entrepreneurs from across the country as they share their stories, experience and expertise on the industry we love. From the loading dock to strategic sourcing, for buyers to the C-Suite and across the enterprise — we tackle the real-life issues impacting the health care supply chain. Whether you’re tuning in for conversation or inspiration, we’re glad you’re here. You’re just in time to hear it from the source and stock up on insight, so sit back and plug into Power Supply…

Coming Up Short: Understanding Nuanced Challenges in Sourcing Pharmaceuticals

What makes sourcing pharmaceuticals different from other categories within the healthcare supply chain?  Shortages have placed stress on the system that require healthcare organization to look for substitutes and alternative suppliers.  Not everyone understands the underlying causes of these shortages and while the industry has always dealt with shortages there are also newer challenges that may have not been faced in the past.  Greg Chavez joins Hays Waldrop, Garry Skinner and Justin Poulin to provide an overview of the nuances to sourcing pharmaceuticals and offer up his insight into a changing landscape related to regulation, manufacturer mergers and the pandemic. We hope you can join us!

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Find Objection Busters for Your Hospital Value Analysis Team

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl talks about the importance of “objection busters” for your hospital’s VAT: “One example is a COO who, after a value analysis team meeting where he was their champion, cornered doctors in his hospital’s hallways to discuss why they turned down the opportunity to save money on pacemakers. And believe me, they had better have a good reason for not accepting positive change or he would counter their objections one after another….” Tune in for the full article! Loving the #PowerSupply conversations? You can now download our free mobile app: Apple: https://zcu.io/sx2h Android: https://zcu.io/xJSJ And listen at: iTunes -> https://zcu.io/3Zef Spotify -> https://zcu.io/eBXx Stitcher -> https://zcu.io/2gMi Amazon Podcasts -> https://zcu.io/Xo2S Google Podcasts -> https://zcu.io/O8SY #PowerSupply #Podcast #Education #SupplyChain #Healthcare #Purchasing #Contracting #ValueAnalysis

Large Scale Contract Negotiations: A System-wide Approach for Success

How do you move beyond price point in large scale negotiations?  What level of emphasis should benchmarking have in the process and how should data be leveraged to ensure physician and clinician alignment?  How do you identify what the market can bear and prevent an inflated market, especially considering the raw material shortages influencing the market today?  On this week’s episode of Power Supply, Brad Forth, VP of Sourcing and Vendor Management at SSM Health joins Hays Waldrop, Garry Skinner and Justin Poulin to share his supply chain experiences before moving into healthcare and offers some tips and insight around navigating system wide sourcing initiatives.

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Holes to Plug in Healthcare Supply Expense Management

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl shares solutions for the little leaks and big outflows that may be happening around your health system: “No longer can we sit by and watch our hospital’s supply expense leaks get bigger and bigger. We need to plug them now, so we can help our hospital sustain a healthy bottom line. If we wait any longer to do so, it will be more difficult to fix these seepages when the whole building is falling down…” Tune in for the full article! Loving the #PowerSupply conversations? You can now download our free mobile app: Apple: https://zcu.io/sx2h Android: https://zcu.io/xJSJ And listen at: iTunes -> https://zcu.io/3Zef Spotify -> https://zcu.io/eBXx Stitcher -> https://zcu.io/2gMi Amazon Podcasts -> https://zcu.io/Xo2S Google Podcasts -> https://zcu.io/O8SY #PowerSupply #Podcast #Education #SupplyChain #Healthcare #Purchasing #Contracting #ValueAnalysis

International Disruption: A Global Perspective on Logistics Planning and Supply Chain

It’s no secret that the global healthcare supply chain has experienced unprecedented disruption over the past 2 years. While many of the issues are domestic, these same issues also exist in other countries around the world.  How does the United States compare to other countries and what trends are emerging such as “near shoring”?  On this week’s episode of Power Supply, we speak with Sven Schürer, Director Business Development Logistics at JLL, to tap into his global supply chain experience and outline the international conversations happening in our industry which are trying to find answers to these seemingly insurmountable challenges. This is one conversation you’re not going to want to miss!

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Strategies to a Sustainable Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Pipeline

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl shares some key strategies for creating a sustainable savings pipeline for your health system: “[I]t’s time that we focus our healthcare supply chain efforts on the development, enhancement, or refinement of our supply chain expense management systems to ensure that we are capturing all the supply expense savings opportunities that are available to our hospital, system, or IDN. You should be aware that without a rock-solid system in place to provide you with a sustainable savings pipeline, your saving machine will come to a screeching halt!…” Tune in for the full article! Loving the #PowerSupply conversations? You can now download our free mobile app: Apple: https://zcu.io/sx2h Android: https://zcu.io/xJSJ And listen at: iTunes -> https://zcu.io/3Zef Spotify -> https://zcu.io/eBXx Stitcher -> https://zcu.io/2gMi Amazon Podcasts -> https://zcu.io/Xo2S Google Podcasts -> https://zcu.io/O8SY #PowerSupply #Podcast #Education #SupplyChain #Healthcare #Purchasing #Contracting #ValueAnalysis

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