SMI provides networking and collaboration opportunities for providers, suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors in the healthcare supply chain sector. The organization focuses on improving supply chain agility, efficiency, and resilience.

SMI - Strategic Marketplace Initiative | 1,437 followers on LinkedIn. Where Action Meets Impact | SMI provides a nexus for healthcare providers, suppliers and disruptors to network and collaborate on innovations that drive meaningful improvements in supply chain agility, efficiency and resilience. We provide a unique, non-commercial community where members forge long-term relationships as they work together to improve patient care.

Medical Affairs Director

Rohan Sonawane MD, MBA

Associate Executive Director at Strategic Marketplace Initiative

Nancy Noyes Anderson

Administrative Manager

Pamela Poshefko

Healthcare Executive | Board Member | Operating Advisor

Robert Rajalingam

SMI - Strategic Marketplace Initiative

We want to express our deepest gratitude to the 27 inaugural members of SMI who we celebrated at the SMI Fall 2024 Forum in Austin. These organizations took a leap of faith to embrace something new all those years ago. Their openness to building trust and respect between trading partners while transforming the healthcare supply chain has made a lasting impact. Thank you to these organizations for their dedication and leadership over the past 20 years.

Join Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) for the UDI Forum, December 3 - 5, and connect with industry leaders to boost supply chain efficiency, improve patient safety and advance UDI adoption in health care. Register today: https://ow.ly/fpaZ50U9c84

Congratulations to those organizations who were named to Gartner's Top 25 in Healthcare Supply Chain for 2024, especially SMI members: AdventHealth , Stanford Health Care , Bon Secours Mercy Health , Corewell Health , Northwestern Medicine , Rush University Medical Center , BJC Health System , Advocate Health , Ochsner Health , Sutter Health , Allina Health , Johns Hopkins Medicine , Henry Ford Health , Endeavor Health , UPMC , St. Luke's Health System , BayCare Health System , HCA Healthcare , and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gWC9p_cb

Congratulations to both Concordance Healthcare Solutions and Rush University System for Health ! Thank you for your contributions to advance the healthcare supply chain!

Our 20th Anniversary Fall Forum has concluded and we want to thank all of our members and VIPs for making this Forum such a success. A huge thank you also to our keynote speakers Mike Rayburn and Scott Taylor for their impactful and engaging presentations. See you all in Dallas next Spring!

Excited for the arrival of SMI Members and VIPs for our Fall Forum 20th Anniversary Celebration in Austin!

Happy National Health Care Supply Chain Week! We would like to thank our members for all of their contributions to the Health Care Supply Chain.

A huge thank you to Donna Drummond, SMI Board Chair, and the supply chain team at Northwell Health, for hosting SMI’s first of its kind Supply Chain Master Class, for Physicians by Physicians. Bringing Clinicians into Supply Chain is the best way to make transformational change and improve patient care as learned in our session. Our sincere thanks to Donna Drummond / Northwell, Phyllis McCready /Northwell, Teresa Amato /Northwell, Jason Naidich, MD/ Northwell, Thomas Mauri, MD/Northwell, David Battinelli, MD/ Northwell, Paul Degenfelder, MD/MultiCare, and Alan Cheng, MD/Medtronic for leading our faculty and discussions. SMI will be hosting this course at future SMI member organizations in 2025! To learn more about SMI visit www.smisupplychain.com

Time flies when you’re advancing the state of healthcare! KARL STORZ recently hit a major milestone: 10 years of working with SMI, an association of supply chain professionals dedicated to bringing greater value to the healthcare marketplace through innovation and knowledge-sharing. Through our membership with SMI, we’ve succeeded in enhancing the customer experience through continuous improvements in our supply-chain management. SMI formally recognized the contributions of KARL STORZ as part of the group’s Spring 2024 Forum in Atlanta. Les Friend, Executive Director of Strategic National Accounts, accepted the honor on behalf of KARL STORZ. We’d like to thank SMI for this tremendous honor and acknowledge our incredible team for their unwavering commitment and leadership. Here’s to many more years of partnership and progress! Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21wME7F #KARLSTORZ #HealthcareInnovation #SupplyChainExcellence #SMI

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