Cleveland Clinic performs 300,000 surgeries a year and processes 80,000 instrument sets. Stephen Downey manages the supply chain behind all of it through three words: centralize, standardize, automate. That means enterprise-wide procedure cards, one knee tray, and off-site sterile processing modeled on facilities in Denmark and at Walmart. Stephen also breaks down how a monthly … EP 57 – Cleveland Clinic’s Stephen Downey On Centralizing, Standardizing, And Automating Supply Chain

Eric O’Daffer speaks with Burton Fuller, Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Burton’s team is connecting case schedule data from the EHR to their demand planning forecast, what Eric called the “holy grail” of demand planning. With a new cloud-based WMS, a replaced point of use system, and a new … EP 56 – Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Burton Fuller On Building The Data Foundation To Measure Every Facet Of Supply Chain Performance

When over 250,000 patients are mortally injured by medical error annually, supply chain has a direct stake that most organizations underestimate. Charlie Miceli, Former VP Network Chief Supply Chain Officer at University of Vermont Health Network, spent over 15 years in a role that reached well beyond procurement. Charlie and Eric O’Daffer cover AI as … EP 55 – University of Vermont Health’s Charlie Miceli On AI As The New ERP In Healthcare Supply Chain

When Kevin Gordon joined Grady Health System four years ago, he inherited a supply chain function that lacked credibility, documented processes, and modern technology. Before asking for a single dollar, he ran a structured assessment across four pillars: people, processes, finances, and technology. That sequence mattered. Everything that followed, including a full ERP migration from … EP 54 – Grady Health’s Kevin Gordon On The Back-To-Basics Approach To Rebuild Supply Chain Credibility

Ben Haygood built his healthcare supply chain career from the ground up, starting on third shift stocking an ER at 19. Now, as Director of Strategic Sourcing at Piedmont Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Georgia, he runs a centralized sourcing operation spanning 27 hospitals that has grown from 8 facilities in just 8 years. … EP 53 – Piedmont Healthcare’s Ben Haygood on Why Consolidating Vendors Can Cost Patients More Than It Saves Your Org

Régine Honoré Villain spent 30 years inside complex enterprise environments watching brilliant strategies get handed off and quietly die. Not because the strategy was wrong, but because nothing was built to catch it. That gap between execution and organizational adoption is now the core focus of her advisory firm, REHVÉAL, and it reframes how she … EP 52 – REHVÉAL’s Régine Honoré Villain on Flipping the Sourcing-to-Adoption Ratio

Jason Moulding, Chief Supply Chain Officer at MultiCare Health System, has spent 25 years building toward a supply chain function that leads M&A integrations, runs enterprise performance analytics, and holds its position at the executive table through leadership transitions. He walks through the strategic planning model he’s been running since 2017 and how 3 iterations … EP 51 – Multicare’s Jason Moulding on Building Strategy around People, Process, Performance, & Partnership

Yisa Wong, VP of Strategic Sourcing at Fossil Group, has spent over 20 years building sourcing operations across fashion and accessories, with stops at Liz Claiborne, Gap, Coach, and now Fossil Group, where she’s based in Hong Kong managing APAC sourcing and procurement. She talks through how she thinks about supplier relationships, supply chain risk, … EP 50 – Fossil Group’s Yisa Wong on Sourcing through Global Disruption

Teresa Dail, Chief Supply Chain Officer Emeritus – President at Vanderbilt Health Purchasing Collaborative, spent 17 years as an ICU nurse and nursing leader before being hired back to Orlando Health to close what she describes as a “Grand Canyon” of disconnect between materials management and clinical teams. That background shaped her entire approach for … EP 49 – Vanderbilt’s Teresa Dail on How a Clinical Background Shapes Supply Chain Leadership

CPOs are navigating two pressures at once right now: figuring out where AI actually fits in their operations, and keeping their teams motivated through what feels like unending disruption. Michael Dunlap, Head of Content and Growth, ProcureCon Events at Worldwide Business Research, runs around 30 research calls with procurement practitioners before building each conference agenda, … EP 48 – ProcureCon’s Michael Dunlap on The Pulse of the Chief Procurement Officer