Day One: Evolving Your Supply Chain In The Changing Healthcare Environment

There’s a wealth of knowledge around you. In fact the person sitting right next to you has probably carried out the same project that is keeping you up at night. His or her successes, and maybe even more importantly, failures – can save you months or years of time and millions of dollars. But you’ll never get these golden nuggets unless you get to talking.

To kick LogiMed off, we’ll do a quick, effective Ice Breaker that will get you making connections that will help you solve your current problems right out of the gate.

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While M&A is nothing new to our industry, the high profile acquisitions (BD/CareFusion, Medtronic/Covidien, Zimmer/Biomet, and Carlyle Group/Ortho Clinical Diagnostics) has supply chain integration on our minds. Even if you are not from one of the aforementioned companies, chances are you have recently gone through a merger or acquisition (or dozens of them!) and still sorting through it all. Take away some of the mystery and leave with concrete tools from this panel to ease the process.
• Explaining what happens when you try to do too much too soon
• Getting rid of complexity before you take steps towards change and integration
• Outlining data management best practices
• Describing strategies for integrating your logistics networks, ERP systems, customer service solutions, and more

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Providence Health & Services is one of the nation's largest hospital systems with 33 hospitals stretching from California to Alaska, and is ranked within the top 25 healthcare supply chains in 2014 by Gartner. Learn how this leading provider operates to gain insight into how medical device suppliers can better work with them and how other providers can follow lead for a more effective hospital distribution center.
• Setting up your DC to move to a low unit of measure and JIT
• Using industrial engineers to identify the optimum order size to reduce numbers of orders at sites (resulting in a 60-70% reduction of inventory and an increase in fill rates to 99%)
• Sharing plans to head into areas where the supply chain hasn’t traditionally had exposure, like the OR and clinical inventory areas

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It’s hard enough to keep your supply chain healthy – intense economic pressures, emerging markets, and the Affordable Care Act are challenging even the most robust supply chains. In the past year, we’ve also seen increased consolidation among providers – as well as medical device manufacturers. How can you keep pace with this changing environment, let alone innovate? Learn how you can turn your supply chain into a competitive advantage in the new ACA world.

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The medical device industry has historically been known for poor inventory management practices. It was seen as something you could deal with tomorrow because you have more important things to deal with today. But with the medical device sales tax and other changes to healthcare, gaining a better understanding of where your inventory is and how much you need is one of the most critical ways you can begin to take unnecessary cost out of your supply chain. This panel has done the work and is seeing results - learn from them!
• Identifying key considerations for determining the levels of inventory in your supply chain
• Establishing inventory targets and factors that may change them throughout the year
• Uncovering the best tools to use to manage inventory to eliminate waste
• Offering solutions for field, consignment, and other inventory challenges

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• Key healthcare trends and their impact on medical logistics
• Strategies revealed from the latest Pain in the Chain Supply Chain Survey
• Disruptive innovation for supply chains that cannot be disrupted

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As healthcare continues to change, our supply chains continue to be impacted. Gain a better understanding on how the healthcare industry will continue to shift, and what that means for all stakeholders. You'll be better able to prepare your long-term strategic visions for your company and respond swiftly. Mark Van Sumeren will share from his expertise of 35 years across different areas of the industry.
• Sharing an update on the healthcare industry as a result of healthcare reform
• Cycles the healthcare industry has gone through, trends, and growth expectations
• Are we really seeing more hospital visits and health insurance utilization following the Affordable Care Act
• How is the shift in healthcare impacting the sales of medical devices? Is there going to be an upside in additional sales and what does this mean for med device manufacturing?
• Healthcare consumerism: How is this impacting the industry?

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Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010, we have seen some major shifts to the healthcare industry, particularly in the past 12 months. Richard Bagley from Intermountain Health, one of the nation's largest hospital networks, will explain how the ACA has changed the way they operate. He will explain the importance of supply chains -- on both the manufacturer and hospital side -- to adapt quickly to the changes in order to remain in business and be successful at providing patient care in the new landscape.

• Examining how the Affordable Care Act has changed the healthcare industry over the past four years
• Outlining how supply chains should be respond
• Looking to the future to stay ahead of setbacks from the changing healthcare landscape
  

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Choose 3, 30 Minutes Each

While the first part of LogiMed is jam-packed with detailed presentations and thought-provoking panel discussions, we end the day with interactive roundtable discussions. This is your chance to sit with each of the day’s speakers to ask questions about their presentations, share your thoughts, and dive deeper into the subject matter. Additional roundtable topics not discussed yet in the morning are available too! And what’s even better is that you pick which roundtables to partake in – choose the ones relevant to your most pressing initiatives and send your team mates to others to cover full ground.

#1 Working With Your 3PLs To Achieve Inventory Accuracy And On-Time Shipments
Scott Williams, Sr. Director, Supply Chain, Dexcom

#2 Provider Perspective: Moving To A Low Unit Of Measure And Just-In-Time In Your Hospital Distribution Center To Pull Out Cost And Add Value To Suppliers
Dave Hunter, VP of Supply Chain Management, Engineering & Hospitality, Providence Health & Services

#3 Optimizing Your Supply Chain In The Changing Healthcare Environment
Don Casey, CEO, Medical Segment, Cardinal Health

#4 Outsourcing Freight Payment to Create a More Cost Effective, Efficient Supply Chain
Stacey Tapler, Director, Logistics, B Braun Medical

#5 Creating Owners and Leaders in Your Supply Chain: Lessons Learned from Other Industries
Rupa Roy, Director Assets & Inventory, Aesculap

#6 Integrating Systems Following Mergers and Acquisitions
John Ordway, VP Operations, Moximed

#7 Exploring How The Affordable Care Act Is Impacting The Healthcare Supply Chain
Richard Bagley, Director, Strategic Sourcing, Intermountain Healthcare

#8 Procurement Transformation
Ian MacDiarmid, Director, Division Supply, Abbott Vascular

#9 Creating Change And Using Value Analysis To Enhance The Supplier/Provider Relationship
Gloria Graham, Clinical Materials Specialist, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

#10 Planning for Success When Offshoring Your Manufacturing
M. Scott Sample, Director of Product Development, Cyberonics

Would your firm benefit from discussing solutions to these challenges with the medical device supply chain community? Contact Fabricio Santos at 646-502-3233 or fabricio.santos@wbresearch.com to learn how your company can moderate a roundtable at LogiMed.

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Join your LogiMed community to celebrate the end of your first day of network creation and strategy gathering for a fun, relaxed cocktail party. In a beautiful, refreshing outdoor venue (weather permitting, though it’s almost always sunny in San Diego!) sip a cocktail, nosh some tasty treats, and be entertained.