Build the Flexible Supply Chain Your Hospital Needs

With the next challenge on the horizon, what matters most is organizational readiness. Gain the visibility you need to take on supply chain risks, while enhancing care quality and financial performance. Vertex transforms your health system’s response from reactive to proactive by building a resilient supply chain.

The Power of Supply Chain Resilience

Why wait for the next disruption to threaten clinical outcomes and financial performance?

 The ongoing pandemic is stressing hospital supply chains by epic proportions, creating major shortages of essential supplies. In a recent survey of providers and suppliers, those who were able to acquire PPE reported challenges that included bidding wars and price gouging (15 percent), finding and vetting nontraditional suppliers (14 percent), and securing quality or authentic products (12 percent).¹

To satisfy your health system’s mission, you need a high-performing, resilient supply chain.

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Gain the visibility you need to take on supply chain risks, while enhancing care quality and financial performance

In these turbulent times, your organization faces supply chain threats from sources you can anticipate – like natural disasters or strikes – and from situations that are impossible to predict – such as the Covid-19 Pandemic or a terrorist attack. To mitigate potential operational impacts, you need a flexible supply chain that dynamically responds and adapts to actual and possible disruptions — to avoid significant revenue loss, brand damage or even business demise.

Who can you turn to for the unique end-to-end services and solutions needed to build a resilient supply chain? Vertex Supply Chain Solutions.

Your Trusted Supply Chain Partner

At Vertex Supply Chain Solutions, our staff has a long track record in solving supply chain challenges unique to the healthcare, manufacturing and technology industries. Our clients value our expertise and leverage our knowledge, tools and insights to effectively manage ongoing supply chain uncertainties and risks.

Gain the Flexibility to Adapt to Change

Vertex Supply Chain engineers will help you build the capacity to avert, prepare for, and execute through supply chain disruptions, while gaining agility for continued growth. Your organization will be able to:

• Develop a supply chain resilience strategy tailored to your organization’s specific situation
• Align your organization to successfully deploy the most advantageous supply chain resilience strategy
• Empower managers across all functions with the ability to understand, anticipate and overcome supply chain vulnerabilities
• Achieve balanced resilience by bridging the gaps between your organization’s vulnerabilities and capabilities
• Gain visibility into potential disruptions at Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers

Transform Your Hospital with the Most Effective Cost-Reduction Strategies in the Industry

Our leading-edge services and solutions help pave the way for a successful healthcare supply chain transformation journey.

• Supply Chain Resilience Assessment. Take the first step toward a cost-efficient, effective supply chain resilience strategy. Our experts will balance your vulnerabilities with the appropriate capabilities and architect a custom resilience roadmap, specifically designed to address your organization’s unique challenges.
• Resilience Strategy Deployment. Our experienced Vertex Supply Chain Engineers will become part of your team, helping functional leads understand your supply chain resilience strategy and get buy-in from both line-users and senior management.
• Replenishment Policy Optimization. Build momentum for your Supply Chain Resilience Strategy and achieve immediate cost savings by optimizing inventory replenishment policies.
• Automated Recall Management. Implement a system that mitigates the risk of recalled items adversely impacting your patients, services, or bottom line.  
• Resilience in Realtime™.  Integrate leading-edge risk intelligence and analytics solutions with your organization’s existing ERP system to streamline your supply chain risk management journey.

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The Power of Supply Chain Resilience

Why wait for the next disruption to threaten your organization’s bottom line? Get ahead of it! Let’s work together to build a resilient supply chain.

We provide the knowledge, capabilities, and tools you need to gain visibility into your supplier network, lower costs, and effectively manage disruptions.

The result? A resilient supply chain that empowers your organization to have the right supplies, at the right place, at the right time.

Gain an Ally in Balancing Supply and Demand

Our toolset, including the Supply Chain Resilience Assessment and Maturity evaluation,  helps you understand both your organizational vulnerabilities and capabilities in order to build the right resilience and digitization strategy to intelligently navigate challenges, today and tomorrow.

Gain a Safer Hospital Work Environment 

Build the dynamic supplier network that makes it easier to protect patients and staff with the right equipment and supplies at the right time.

Face Uncertainty with Confidence.

Leverage our expertise to prepare for the challenges of today and tomorrow. Our skills and tools align with your organization’s to mitigate the impact of disruptions and other supply chain challenges, while enabling you to get enhanced performance from your existing technology investment.

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Defining a Roadmap to Manage On-Time Product Delivery Success

Do you want to avoid shipment delays, gain supply chain foresight, and optimize costs? Take these steps and go from overburdened to worry free.

1. Set Up a Briefing Call to Discuss Your Assessment

Depending on the depth of the assessment you need we can evaluate your current supply chain situation in as little as three days

2. Receive a Plan-of-Attack to Transform Your Supply Chain

Not all supply chain situations, solutions, and strategies are the same, and they can be complicated to unravel. That’s where we come in. We’ll explain each option so that you get the best possible solution to add resilience to your supply chain and work with you and your team to build and execute the supply chain strategy optimal for your organization.

3. Automate. Innovate. Save Time, Money & Lives

We present a customized strategy – your personalized guide to building transformative efficiencies into your organizations’ healthcare supply chain. Once the plan is implemented, you can relax knowing your facility is prepared for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Advisory Board

Bill Hurles                         Bill served as Executive Director of Supply Chain at General Motors where he led the global operations of 159 plants, as well as GM’s Global Supply Chain Leadership Team. Bill is a well-known, highly respected, and passionate leader in supply chain management community and successfully guided GM through many supply chain crises with effective risk management and resiliency strategies.

Bill Marrin                        The former Executive Director of World 50, a private peer community that enable CEOs and C-level executives at globally respected organizations discover better ideas, share valuable experiences and build relationships that make a lasting impact. Bill is a particular expert in leadership development, coaching c-suite executives, and working with early stage companies to drive growth.

Dr. Keith Thurgood Dr. Thurgood brings a unique perspective on healthcare, operations management and leadership having served at senior level leadership positions in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.   Most recently Dr. Thurgood has returned to UTD following a 14-month sabbatical following an appointed by the Secretary of Defense Chief Management Officer to lead the largest global community services, retail and grocery reform effort in a generation. He was also President, Spend and Clinical Management, MedAssets, a healthcare performance improvement company.  He also served as President and CEO of Overseas Military Sales Corporation and as the Senior Vice President of Operations for Sam’s Club. He also served as the CEO of The Exchange (formerly the Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), the United States Department of Defense’s $10 billion global for-profit retail enterprise and he has also held executive positions with Frito-Lay and PepsiCo. In addition to his civilian job, he has over 28 years of Army service, both active and reserve.  Major General Thurgood served as the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff, United States Army Reserve in Washington, D.C.  His last assignment prior to his retirement was the Deputy, Business Transformation, Office of the Secretary of the Army.  During his tour of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was the Commanding General of the Army’s largest transportation and distribution command and simultaneously the Deputy Commanding General of the theater logistics support / supply chain command

Management

Carl Ralph                         Managing Director, is a supply chain practitioner with experience managing Supply Chain operations across multiple industries. In addition to an extensive background in ERP implementation and support, Carl was trained in Lean Operations directly by Toyota Production System (TPS) and received graduate education in Supply Chain Engineering at MIT.