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 Mars 27min
EP 41 – EBIT Intelligent Procurement's Joanne McCourt on Measuring Procurement Success beyond Savings
EBIT Intelligent Procurement ditched their 50% gain-share model for fixed-fee managed services after recognizing how gain-share creates operational friction: departments paying fees from their budgets...
24 Feb 33min
EP 40 – Bon Secours' Daniel Hurry on Industry Elevation over Retention in Leadership Development
Daniel Hurry, President at Advantus Health Partners & CSCO at Bon Secours Mercy Health, helped justify building Advantus Health Partners to their board by calculating the admin fee equation, then pro...
17 Feb 31min
EP 39 – Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Matthew Laud on Diversity in Team & Supplier Selection
Procurement at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center requires abandoning traditional sourcing language when working with physicians whose primary concern is patient outcomes, not optimization metrics...
11 Feb 30min
EP 38 – Northwestern Medicine’s Gary Fennessy on the Shift to Partnership-Based Healthcare Procurement
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Smarter Sourcing: Healthcare, with host Eric O’Daffer. Gary Fennessy, VP & Chief Supply Chain Executive at Northwestern Medicine, has been NM's Chief Supply Chain O...
3 Feb 27min
EP 37 – Eric O'Daffer on 3 True Norths for AI Investment, Indirect Spend, & Benchmarking
Most health systems report supply chain spend in the high teens while industry data confirms it's actually 35-40% of operating expenses, a measurement gap that systematically undermines investment cas...
23 Jan 39min
EP 36 - Supplier Data as a Compass, Not a Mirror with Aleck Matambo
Aleck Matambo's approach to supplier relationships proved critical during Dell's COVID-era factory relocations. When inventory shortages forced allocation decisions across the industry, suppliers prio...
6 Jan 21min
EP 35 - Lucid Motors' Kriti Jain on Maximum Chaos Creating the Best Transformation Conditions
Kriti Jain, Sr. Director of Indirect Procurement, walked into Lucid Motors to find an indirect procurement function that barely existed — a team in single digits without the infrastructure to support ...
19 Dec 202538min
