2022 Supply Chain Learning Series: Social Responsibility Spotlight Focus on Supplier Diversity and Sustainability

June 15, 2022

Supply chain executives & managers have an ongoing need for sharing best practices in their profession.  Supply chain touches all aspects of the health care delivery system from clinical to operational to financial and is an increasingly strategic function within provider organizations.  By understanding how others achieve success within these varied areas—through collaboration with professionals and leaders—learnings can spread more quickly, resulting in better patient care at lower costs.

Target Audience

Supply Chain

Learning Objectives

Explain the value of benchmark data against cohorts of similar organizations as a key driver for targeting improvement activities for the healthcare supply chain.
Describe how price management, purchase management, transaction efficiency, purchase standardization, clinical integration and supplier diversity can each contribute to supply chain operational excellence. 
Discuss how digital process automation, collaboration with channel partners and a discipline around data accuracy contribute to efficiency and reliability of the supply chain.
 

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
Course opens: 
06/02/2022
Course expires: 
07/30/2022
Event starts: 
06/15/2022 - 11:30am CDT
Event ends: 
06/15/2022 - 12:30pm CDT
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Live activity
United States

Identification, Mitigation, and Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.

 

Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 

It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.

 

FDA Off-Label Use

Faculty presenters are also expected to disclose any discussion of (1) off-label or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States.

 

DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS:

 

Absence of Relevant Financial Relationships

The following planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

 

Planning committee

 

Carla Stephens, MBA, CMRP

Networks Director

Vizient, Inc.

 

Presenter

 

Samantha S. Voreh, BS, MBA

Senior Director, Supplier Diversity & Inclusion

Novant Health

Designation Statement:

CEU

Vizient, Inc. will award CEUs to each participant who successfully completes this program. The CEU is a nationally recognized unit of measure for continuing education and training programs that meet certain criteria (1 contact hour = 0.1 CEU).

Available Credit

  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
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