Value Alignment

The Value Alignment team is focused on How to Build Effective Corporate Relationships. The Team, led by Brent Johnson, Keith Kuchta, and Susan Schuette, recognizes that this initiative serves as a "front end" to the existing SMI tool - Measuring Effective Relationships. The Value Alignment Team will be releasing three components to SMI members and the industry during July 2010:

Creating Strategic Partnerships - an educational and awareness-building presentation covering such topics as the need for alliances and partnerships, how to create an alliance, and how to measure an alliance.

Business Review Guidelines - a compilation of recommendations on how to effectively conduct routine business reviews, with sample agendas, timetables, and other important information for trading partners.

Trading Partner Value Profiles - a standardized two-page summary of information that all trading partners can utilize to communicate the important, yet basic information about their organization. Over the next six months, it is hoped that all SMI members will complete and post their customized Value Profiles to the SMI web site so that they can direct trading partners to this valuable resource of information.

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Product Recalls

The Product Recall Initiative Team has narrowed their scope to two major areas of impact for the industry:

   1) Improving the speed of recall notifications

   2) Standardizing the notification format and content

The Product Recall Team has been in communication with the FDA about possible efforts to work together on these focus areas, and the FDA has indicated an interest in working the SMI Team. Details are being worked out and preparations are being made by SMI staff and the Team leader, Steve Huckabaa of Kettering Health Network.

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Supply Chain Uniqueness and Differences

This new SMI initiative, launched at the SMI spring 2010 Forum, will be under the leadership of Rosalind Parkinson of Ohio State University Medical Center and Keith Johnson of Coloplast Corporation. The Team is currently working to define their scope of work and then to organize research efforts. Working with collaborators from AHRMM, CIHL, and MDSCC this SMI Team is expected to research "What makes the healthcare supply chain unique?" when compared to other industries' supply chains.

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