Tools

SMI's first of its kind Physician Advisory Group created this infographic to outline the challenges and opportunities for a clinically integrated supply chain.

The Disruption Decision Matrix provides a four-quadrant framework for mapping an organization’s identified Critical Products against their Potential for Disruption and provides recommended high-level guidance, or actions, to be taken to address disruption.

SMI has created a one-page Executive Insights document that summarizes the discussions that took place during the Hot Topics/Speed Networking session at the Spring Forum.  Topics include:

- meeting financial goals
- embracing new healthcare delivery models
- building stronger partner relationships
- managing staffing issues

This Best Practices Guide identifies what has changed with trading partner relationships post pandemic and how to start new projects for more transparent and strategic collaborations.

Provides a common structure and language for healthcare organizations to identify the criticality of the products they need.

5 Steps to Jump Start Your Supplier Diversity Program

Practical tips on how to lay the foundation for meaningful clinical integration with supply chain.

A robust, meaningful model for a modern value analysis program.

Standardizing requests from providers to suppliers to support evidence and value-based decisions.

Learn more about this new model for value analysis created by SMI in partnership with the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals.

5 Steps to Jump Start Your Supplier Diversity Program

Information leaders can use to build more diverse and inclusive teams

Priorities needed to create a more advanced and resilient health system supply chain for 2030.

A vision into the healthcare supply chain leader of the future that can serve as a guide for career development.

Webinar outlining the leadership skills needed for the future.

Learn about key qualities required for a future leader

Learn how to get your supply chain ready for healthcare reform.

How accountable care organizations evolved

Areas of critical impact and new capabilities needed to meet the demands of Accountable Care

Set the internal benchmark on your supply chain organization's readiness for the new models of integrated care.

Understand the needs of the non-acute care market's supply logistics including cost management and clinical integration

A story of ambulatory distribution practices and program.

An overview of a homecare and hospice program.

Insights on servicing affiliate locations.

An alternate site distribution program.

A unique, Centralized & Streamlined Ambulatory Care Supply Chain Program

Score your organization on current resilience to drive planning for improvement

Provides a common structure and language for healthcare organizations to identify the criticality of the products they need.

The Disruption Decision Matrix provides a four-quadrant framework for mapping an organization’s identified Critical Products against their Potential for Disruption and provides recommended high-level guidance, or actions, to be taken to address disruption.

How to measure and improve the resilience of your supply chain (supplier or provider)

The key building blocks of effective demand planning how to get started

How to align with trading partners to improve and automate demand signaling

Learn the 5 key steps to take to prepare for the next crisis now

Key priorities for our industry as we move beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

What have we learned from the pandemic and how can it make our supply chain stronger?

A primer on the key supply chain lessons from the pandemic

A discussion that highlights the key, unique qualities of the healthcare supply chain

What does an order look like when it’s executed fully electronically?

A test of the Perfect Order Methodology

Helps users implement the PDI Index & Scorecard (Windows only file)

Learn how to use the SMI Perfect Department Index to improve the efficiency of the supply chain

Measure your supply chain department against standards for excellence

Optimize your supply chain with your trading partners

Explore gaps in your technology platform.

Learn about the value of the UDI when applied to surgery.

Explore the value of Vendor Managed Inventory

This Best Practices Guide identifies what has changed with trading partner relationships post pandemic and how to start new projects for more transparent and strategic collaborations.

5 Steps to Jump Start Your Supplier Diversity Program

Creating best practices for supplier/provider collaborations

Provides best practices and critical success factors needed for healthcare supply chain collaborations

Ochsner Health System and CareFusion Case Study

Intermountain Healthcare and Covidien Case Study

Orlando Health and MedSpeed

A playbook of recommendations on conducting productive and transparent virtual business relationships that replicate the high touch nature of in-person meetings and facilitate the introduction of new provider and supplier relationships.

SMI presents a conversation with Steve Adams from the Strategic National Stockpile to present an overview of their program

SMI serves as a conduit to support broad education on SNS to the healthcare marketplace.

Trading partner collaboration, 5 years of learning

Trading partner collaboration best practices

This guideline is designed to support, not replace, written policies and the redesign of access and credentialing programs

Recommendations for supply chain business reviews by trading partners

Encourage the development of supply chain alliances in healthcare

Creating a provider value profile

Creating a supplier value profile