Healthcare DIVE October 5, 2023
Deborah Abrams Kaplan

The healthcare institution is leveraging data to improve forecasting, in addition to streamlining its reporting and purchasing operations.

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used to have a fragmented supply chain. Although the hospital system employed a corporate purchasing team, it only processed purchase orders and requisitions from the various sites, and each MSKCC location had the authority to sign contracts on its own, within its given approval levels.

In 2018, Kreg Koford was brought on as SVP of supply chain and hospital operations to change that.

“We started a major transformation to design what a modern supply chain would look like,” he said. When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, “we were able to leverage the pandemic as...

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