National Health Care Supply Chain Week (October 6-12), is an opportunity to recognize the importance of the health care supply chain professionals and honour them for their exceptional contributions to patient care and the innovative ways in which they support their health care organizations and communities.

The theme this year, “Excellence in Every Link”, celebrates the central role of health care supply chain professionals in supporting their organizations through incredible collaboration and maximizing scarce resources by forming strategic alliances – the true embodiment of advancing health care through supply chain excellence.

Supply chain professionals ensure operational performance by collaborating and innovating with other professionals both internally and externally. Please join us in thanking supply chain and procurement staff members.

Did you know?

• Collectively, between Purchasing and Stores, a total of 17,503 purchase orders have been issued over the past year, to over 700 different suppliers.

• The Stores department orders, picks and delivers out of four warehouses, which store over 1,765 unique products.

• Stores has topped up 3,704,361 individual stock items in the last year.

• Purchasing currently manages over 2,100 contracts to ensure compliance and to deliver best value for money.

• This year, Purchasing and Stores have serviced 222 functional cost centres.