Cybersecurity: What Supply Chain Leaders Must Know

Supply chain by definition involves relationships with hundreds or thousands of vendors and other external business partners, creating an enormous surface area for the cybersecurity team to defend. This workshop will bring together supply chain and IT leaders from across the healthcare supply chain to focus on critical strategies for ensuring continuity and resilience in the face of cyber threats.

• Cybersecurity In Healthcare Supply Chains: Why we’re such an attractive target to cyberattackers
• Healthcare System Perspective: Collaborating to improve cybersecurity and avoid supply chain disruptions
• Roundtable Discussions: How do participants vet and monitor vendors for cybersecurity hygiene?
• Distribution Perspectives: Ensuring business continuity
• Roundtable Discussions: Top elements of a “systems down” back-up plan

Ron Browne
Chief Information Security Officer
Owens & Minor

Ellery Fisher
SVP & Chief Information Officer
McKesson Medical-Surgical

John Ford
Healthcare Cybersecurity Expert & Founding Partner
TRIFIDENT

Smarter, Safer, And More Sustainable Supply Chains

Hear from three dynamic healthcare supply chain leaders in the opening session of the MedSupplyChain Conference.

• Supply Chain’s Role in Digital Strategy
  In an era where fewer than 25% of companies have comprehensive digital strategies, supply chain leaders are uniquely positioned to drive technological transformation. Broad operational perspective can inform critical decisions on data sharing, infrastructure, and integrated ecosystems. Learn to leverage your supply chain expertise to champion digital initiatives that enhance overall organizational health and efficiency.
• Building Value-Driven Healthcare Supply Chains
  Shared values are a foundational component of healthy partner relationships and often a critical consideration when health systems are evaluating trading partners. Suppliers who can align with their customers' missions, from ESG initiatives to health equity goals, to create robust, adaptable supply chains that withstand challenges and drive long-term success.

Randy Bradley
Associate Professor of Supply Chain
University of Tennessee

Sara Henderson
VP, Supply Chain
Avera Health

Automating The Supply Chain: Turning Trials Into Triumphs

Automation and technology scaling initiatives should be driven by strategic needs and identified solution gaps, not by the allure of new tech alone. Cardinal Health’s approach prioritizes reducing employee burden through careful assessment of operational challenges before seeking appropriate technological solutions. Flexibility during technology trials is crucial, allowing for rapid pivots and refinements to ensure successful enterprise-wide implementation and scalability.

Peter Bennett
SVP, Global Supply Chain
Cardinal Health

Improving Forecast Accuracy With Collaborative Data Sharing

The healthcare supply chain has longed for more visibility and we have leaned on data and solutions that are difficult to scale. Learn how a supplier and provider are leveraging a shared platform, Surgence™, to create an unprecedented level of visibility combined with applications that generate alerts, insights and decisions to rapidly respond to the supply chain in a unified way. These two organizations are excited to share what they have achieved so far as well as what is next in their shared vision for 2025.

Cody Fisher
Executive Vice President, Strategic Advisor
Concordance Healthcare Solutions

Efficiencies In Last Mile Logistics

Last-mile logistics is crucial in healthcare supply chain delivery, particularly to non-acute settings, where timely and accurate delivery of medical supplies directly impacts patient care and operational efficiency. Ensuring reliable last-mile delivery helps maintain inventory levels, reduces delays, and supports healthcare providers in remote or decentralized locations, where disruptions can have serious consequences.

Building Resilient Cyber Defenses With CISA's Proactive Support

Resilient cyber defenses are essential for healthcare organizations, and CISA offers critical resources and guidance to help safeguard against emerging threats.

Resiliency At The Local Level: NACCHO/ASTHO

NACCHO and ASTHO play a key role in enhancing healthcare supply chain preparedness by providing local and state health organizations with the tools and guidance needed to improve emergency response and resource distribution.

Christina LaVoie
Director, Policy
HIDA

Balancing Competing Strategic Sourcing Priorities

Using The Gartner Hierarchy Of Metrics To Improve Healthcare Supply Chain Performance

Gartner’s Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics is considered the industry standard for end-to-end supply chain performance measurement. In this session, we’ll dig deeper to understand how these metrics can be applied in the healthcare sector. You’ll get ideas for:

• Identifying opportunities to improve supply chain performance – and the health of the overall business
• Making the right trade-offs based on understanding how the metrics interact
• Reducing end-to-end supply chain costs

Corwin Hee
Senior Director Analyst
Gartner

Balancing Disruption Risk Against Inventory Holding Costs

Through focused investments in distribution centers, inventory management, and automation, Medline's HRI (Healthcare Resilience Initiative) aims to ensure constant delivery of critical medical supplies. Improved capabilities in manufacturing and distribution have allowed Medline to shore up on-hand inventory and mitigate risk in an evolving market.

Ryan Haley
Director, Vendor Relations
Medline

Reducing Environmental Impact Through Improved Logistics

Learn about order consolidation approaches that can help your organization go green in more ways than one. Johnson & Johnson and Advocate Health used the power of data to evaluate procurement processes, identifying ways to reduce purchase orders and deliveries – and shrink their carbon footprint.

Travis Miller
VP, Supply Chain Operations, Midwest Region
Advocate Health

Chet Damania
Senior Manager, Supply Chain Customer Solutions
Johnson & Johnson

Hands Off! Using “Perfect Order” Automation To Eliminate Manual Touches

Numerous data points need to align for the right product to reach the right facility at the right time; a constantly critical process within the healthcare supply chain. Join GHX for a discussion on streamlining these many requirements, from standards around unit of measure to address fields, and how your organizations can reduce errors in the order process.

Susan LaFountain
Product Manager, Industry Adoption
GHX

Darrell Padilla
Manager
GHX

Bridging Public And Private Sectors For Effective Emergency Preparedness

Linda Rouse O'Neill
SVP, Supply Chain Policy
HIDA

Reducing Cyber Risk: Collaborating With Your Cybersecurity Team To Vet And Monitor Vendors

While many organizations prioritize reducing phishing and hacking attempts within their own teams, it's just as crucial to monitor the cybersecurity practices of your trading partners. Their security directly affects your ability to operate effectively. Understand key factors to consider when vetting and onboarding new vendors, along with the importance of continuous monitoring to protect critical operations.

John Ford
Healthcare Cybersecurity Expert & Founding Partner
TRIFIDENT

Infusing Supply Chain Expertise Throughout The Healthcare Organization

The supply chain team’s work builds efficiency and profitability within the departments they support. But in many organizations, supply chain’s scope is limited: specialized departments such as IT, lab, etc. might control their own procurement. In this session, exchange ideas with a panel of health system leaders on the benefits and strategic considerations of infusing supply chain expertise more broadly within the organization.

• Evaluate the ideal positioning of supply chain within an organization
• Understand how broadening supply chain’s scope can enhance profitability and efficiency across the organization
• Consider strategies for ensuring that clinical staff are fully focused on patient care, not supply chain tasks

Judy Webb-Hapgood
Chief Supply Chain Officer
University of Miami

Adapting Retail Strategies For Healthcare Supply Chains

Healthcare can reach new levels of performance by incorporating lessons and best practices from other industries. Retail’s focus on data driven decision making and inventory optimization strategies have fostered resilient supply chains. With valuable insights from the Home Depot to HD Supply, this session will focus on our industry's opportunities to advance operational efficiencies.

2025 Outlook For Global Logistics

Lars Jensen is back for a third year with his insights on global shipping trends ahead in 2025 – and what they mean for product availability. Whether you’re directly involved in freight management, or just on the receiving end of supply chain delays, you’ll gain important insights from this presentation.

Lars Jensen
CEO
Vespucci Maritime

On Time And In Full: Collaborating For More Perfect Delivery

Strategies For Global Logistics Leaders

Enhancing Service Levels Through Strategic Inventory Management

Adopting the HIDA Resilience Playbook

This resilience-focused session with federal partners will cover the HIDA Resilience Playbook.

Kathryn DiBitetto
Vice President, Congressional Relations
HIDA

Spend Cube Methodology: Transforming Procurement Data Into Strategic Insights

New procurement solutions don't always require brand new technologies- learn how your teams can leverage their existing data outputs for greater efficiencies. Identifying top spending categories and suppliers with the Spend Cube Methodology can lead to enhanced supplier management, cost savings, and greater transparency in the procurement process.

Nick Pericle
Vice President
ProfitOptics

Greening The Supply Chain: Reducing Waste Through Distribution Efficiencies

Distribution can be a powerful lever for achieving sustainability goals in healthcare supply chains. From optimizing transportation logistics to sourcing eco-friendly products, there are a number of opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of the whole supply chain. Learn strategies for navigating diverse customer priorities and capabilities while working towards industry-wide alignment on ESG goals and objectives.

Karen Conway
ValueWorks