Podcast 52 - Why Many Supply Chain Professionals Don't Believe Big Utilization Savings are Realizable

During a recent conversation that Robert W. Yokl (SVAH’s VP, Supply
Chain & VA) had with a system supply chain executive. This
thought-provoking discussion he had with the system supply chain
executive was about how he was targeting supply utilization in a
new savings initiatives to achieve his organization’s savings goals
beyond price strategies.

Clearly, he knew what we know and that is that supply utilization
management is the next new savings strategy that will take us to
new levels of savings beyond price in the healthcare supply chain.
But why don’t more healthcare supply chain leaders adopt supply
utilization savings as the next big savings opportunity and start
building or buying systems to help them achieve this next level of
savings? Is it because they don’t believe the savings are there or
realizable?

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