How to Keep Your Supply Chain Out of Scramble Mode

The healthcare organizations that avoid the scramble during a shortage usually sorted out how their supply chain runs long before the crisis hit.

In honor of Supply Chain Week, SCM Principal Consultant Stephanie Marquez joins RPI Tech Connect to explain what resilience looks like in practice, drawing on about 17 years across manufacturing, healthcare, and consulting. She makes the case for centralized procurement and explains why procure to pay deserves more attention than it gets. She also covers how supplier cybersecurity and HIPAA now touch the supply chain, and where she tells teams to start when the list of fixes feels overwhelming.

If you lead or support a healthcare supply chain and want a realistic way to get ahead of the next disruption, this episode is for you.

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*Chapters:*

00:00 Welcome to RPI Tech Connect

00:29 Supply Issues Are Rarely to Blame for Supply Chain Problems

2:10 What Does It Mean for Healthcare Supply Chains to be Resilient

3:27 When Your Hospitals Are Competing for the Same Product

7:57 Software Isn’t the Biggest Barrier to Centralization

10:06 Your People Come Before Your Data

14:45 P2P Process Erosion Isn’t Solely a Back Office Problem

20:56 Evaluating Your P2P Process

26:10 SCM & IT Are on a Collision Course

29:32 Fourth-Parties, Legacy Systems, & the Fine Print

33:35 Final Thoughts & Takeaways