The dynamic changes in the healthcare field affecting providers and suppliers are a result of increasing regulations, shrinking margins, physician preference items, changing technologies and expanding footprints. Healthcare supply chains are tasked with not only providing high customer service levels, but also with improving levels of customer service while managing costs and maintaining business growth and patient care.

Healthcare providers are the “retailers” in the healthcare value chain, but with an ever more complicated and dynamic store front. As providers approach cost efficiencies through economics of scale via acquisitions and other distributed means of care, the movements of material become more complex and costly. Whether a large IDN or a smaller provider system, material, inventory and distribution costs are generally the second highest cost category behind labor.

Devising and implementing a sound supply chain and logistics strategy takes deep experience in every aspect of the healthcare supply chain, from projecting future business requirements to building vendor relationships to making positive changes in receiving and storage processes, inventory levels, product flow, transportation strategies and more.

Leading healthcare companies turn to the supply chain and logistics experts at Sedlak to support their cost efficiencies, competitive advantages and business growth, all while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.

Sedlak’s strategy experts distill the intricate nuances and complexities of unique and individual healthcare supply chains into straightforward and unbiased go-forward solutions. We combine decades of experience, insight and success with sophisticated analytic methodologies to provide clear and objective independent perspectives and to help you develop a supply chain and logistics strategy to confidently balance cost, quality and outcomes.

What We Can Do For Your Healthcare Supply Chain

• Current and future supply chain evaluation
• Statistical development and strategic analysis
• Inventory allocation and flow strategies
• Vendor relationship management
• Technology and capital investment business case development
• Long-range forecasting
• Offer healthcare supply chain solutions that will improve levels of customer service while maintaining costs