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Vision

Healthcare supply chain executives from provider and industry communities united in shaping a transformed, efficient healthcare supply chain in support of quality healthcare delivery.

Mission

• Create a forum of decision makers with a balanced structure for the development of collaborative, mutually beneficial solutions to healthcare supply chain issues.
• Develop solutions in small, peer led, balanced, multi-disciplinary teams, supported by proven teamwork and solutions development processes.
• Produce solutions to real problems within the industry for the benefit of the entire healthcare supply chain.
• Promote best practices adoption through transformative leadership, focused advocacy and fostering of trust between trading partners.
• Produce tangible value by focusing on strategically relevant, unique solutions (avoiding duplication of efforts with other organizations).

Goals

Raise the level of expected performance, new standards, improvement models and future trends for the advancement of healthcare delivery by:

• Promoting adoption of SMI initiative outputs by SMI Members as measured by total number of SMI Member self-reported adoption activities.
• Maintaining consistently high quality and high member value Forums as measured by overall evaluation scores.
• Demonstrating member value by maintaining a targeted retention rate for both providers and industry partners.
• Maintaining a financially viable and sustainable, not-for-­profit organization by maintaining a minimum annual surplus.