August 25, 2022 – Bruce Radcliff is the System Vice President, Supply Chain at Advocate Aurora. Read an excerpt from The Journal of Healthcare Contracting’s “10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting” below.
What are the most important attributes of successful supply chain teams today?
Successful supply chains need to be agile, engaged with their clinical stakeholders and transparent across all levels of the organization with a collaborative and strategic roadmap.
What project or initiative are you looking forward to working on?
I’m looking forward to tackling innovative ways to handle the labor shortage of today and the coming years. Our team members are one of our greatest assets and keeping them engaged, empowered and feeling valued is a rewarding investment of our time.
What’s the most important risk you took and why?
During the pandemic, our supply chain continued to innovate and even converted our distribution model just a few months before our new ERP deployment. The movement to a higher service just-in-time distribution model was not at an optimal time. However, we took the risk to ensure our clinicians continued to get the dynamic services needed in the face of extreme labor shortages. We rolled from that distribution conversion into a big bang deployment of system-wide ERP across finance, human resources, supply chain and payroll.
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