EP 49 - Vanderbilt's Teresa Dail on How a Clinical Background Shapes Supply Chain Leadership
Teresa Dail, Chief Supply Chain Officer Emeritus - President at Vanderbilt Health Purchasing Collaborative, spent 17 years as an ICU nurse and nursing leader before being hired back to Orlando Health ...
21 Apr 34min
EP 48 - ProcureCon's Michael Dunlap on The Pulse of the Chief Procurement Officer
CPOs are navigating two pressures at once right now: figuring out where AI actually fits in their operations, and keeping their teams motivated through what feels like unending disruption. Michael Dun...
14 Apr 29min
EP 47 - Mayo Clinic's Jim Francis on Strategy, Commercialization, & Giving Back
Chair of Supply Chain Management Jim Francis, has led Mayo Clinic's supply chain for 27 years and built something almost no health system has: a commercial operation with eight revenue-generating busi...
7 Apr 27min
EP 46 - Stamford Health's Shenelle Padarat-Singh on Clinician Wants vs. What Usage Data Shows
During COVID, Stamford Health built inventory dashboards that updated multiple times per day to track supplies arriving in bulk quantities at unpredictable intervals from new vendors. This real-time v...
31 Mar 28min
EP 45 - Keurig Dr Pepper's Juliana Saretta on Post-merger Integration through Listening, Not Leverage
Procurement's biggest misconception isn't about the work itself; it's about believing your role stops at cost savings. Juliana Saretta, Former VP of US Sourcing at Keurig Dr Pepper, spent 30 years pro...
24 Mar 34min
EP 44 - Stanford Medicine's Amanda Chawla on the People-First Framework behind a 10-Year Transformation
Amanda Chawla, SVP - Chief Supply Chain & Post Acute Care Officer at Stanford Health Care, inherited a supply chain where half the organization was outsourced, basic functions like category management...
17 Mar 28min
EP 43 - Utz Brands' Ron Schnur on Outpacing Competitors with Risk-Taking and Supplier Partnerships
Utz Brands’ Senior VP/CPO Ron Schnur's M&A integration framework strategy challenges the standard playbook: across six acquisitions, his team at his previous company, White Wave, diagnosed each deal s...
10 Mar 36min
EP 42 - St. Luke's Adrian Wengert on Embedding Medical Directors to Find Cost Savings Buyers Miss
St. Luke’s Health System built a 330,000 square foot consolidated service center with an ASRS featuring 28 automated pickers and nearly 20,000 bins. Adrian Wengert, CSCO & VP of Supply Chain, spent 3 ...
3 Mar 27min
