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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs. Implementation is challenging: Healthcare organizations tend to underestimate what’s involved with successful implementation.

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Procurement Rising – The Time is Now

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Sprint’s strategic sourcing transformation, presents a great example, in multiple ways. First, their approach digitized not just the sourcing process itself, but also requirements gathering from the business, providing transparency into the pipeline and prioritization across the company. But some companies still struggle.

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Pigs Get Fed; Hogs Get Slaughtered

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Again, many people had great process and change management questions, but no one talked about just how best to truly manage this collaboration process with strategic suppliers. Many of your suppliers work with your competitors in your space, so by keeping suppliers close, you ARE keeping your enemies closer.