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Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
St. Onge
67 episodes
23 hours ago
Season three opens with a twist: Tom Redding takes the interviewer’s chair to explore Fred Kranz’s 60-year journey across healthcare logistics and supply chain. What follows is a fast-paced, deeply human conversation about resilience, mentorship, and the kind of innovation that doesn’t always look like a shiny device. From typing memos and walking hospital campuses to orchestrating complex, data-driven IDNs, Fred shows how the fundamentals—relationships, clarity, and integrity—scale with tech...
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Season three opens with a twist: Tom Redding takes the interviewer’s chair to explore Fred Kranz’s 60-year journey across healthcare logistics and supply chain. What follows is a fast-paced, deeply human conversation about resilience, mentorship, and the kind of innovation that doesn’t always look like a shiny device. From typing memos and walking hospital campuses to orchestrating complex, data-driven IDNs, Fred shows how the fundamentals—relationships, clarity, and integrity—scale with tech...
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Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Sixty Years Of Healthcare Supply Chain Wisdom
Season three opens with a twist: Tom Redding takes the interviewer’s chair to explore Fred Kranz’s 60-year journey across healthcare logistics and supply chain. What follows is a fast-paced, deeply human conversation about resilience, mentorship, and the kind of innovation that doesn’t always look like a shiny device. From typing memos and walking hospital campuses to orchestrating complex, data-driven IDNs, Fred shows how the fundamentals—relationships, clarity, and integrity—scale with tech...
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23 hours ago
33 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
What Suppliers Wish Hospitals Knew About Value, Quality, And Risk
We talk with Stuart Wooster, a former hospital supply chain leader now on the supplier side, about how value, quality, and risk management change when you build products as well as deliver them. The result is a practical playbook for resilience, smarter negotiations, and better outcomes. • value as quality, service, and cost combined • community hospitals sustained by smart scale, not size alone • provider reliance on GPOs versus strategic insourcing • manufacturing quality, traceability, an...
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2 weeks ago
32 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
From Value Analysis to Sterile Processing: How Better Beats Bigger in Healthcare Supply Chain
We explore how smarter value analysis, better space planning, and disciplined sterile processing turn hidden complexity into safer, simpler care. Crystal shares cases where consolidating supply rooms, mapping risks with FMEA, and aligning teams produced measurable gains. • nonclinical path that leads to healthcare supply chain expertise • value analysis maturity beyond price toward clinical integration • standardizing sourcing, SKUs, and stocking logic across hospitals • space planning that ...
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4 weeks ago
30 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
When Compassion Crosses Borders: A Supply Chain Leader's Mission
Greg Goddard, Division Vice President of Supply Chain at Scion Health, shares his extraordinary work with Ukrainian orphans through his foundation Simply Loved Orphan Care. Despite ongoing war, Greg travels to Ukraine to provide children from the Children of Grace Orphanage a 10-day retreat in the Carpathian Mountains away from air raid sirens and drone strikes. • Scion Health operates 15 community hospitals and 63 long-term acute care facilities across 26 states • Greg and his wife started ...
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1 month ago
32 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
From Struggling to Standout: How a Mid-sized Health System Built an Award-winning Supply Chain
St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho has been recognized by Gartner as one of the top 25 healthcare supply chains in the country, achieving this distinction as a mid-sized independent organization competing with much larger systems. • Eight hospitals, 300+ clinics, and $4 billion in annual revenue. • Transformed supply chain operations by hiring 20 strategic employees, mostly from outside healthcare. • Generated $160 million in cost savings over a decade through strategic negotiations. •...
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1 month ago
28 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Healthcare's Next Generation is Learning Supply Chain by Design, Not Accident
Reggie Gardner, a Navy Corpsman turned graduate student, represents the future of healthcare supply chain by combining practical medical experience with formal supply chain education at the University of Tennessee. His journey highlights the evolution from learning supply chain on the job to pursuing advanced degrees in one of the nation's top programs. • Reggie served five years as a Navy Corpsman with the Marine Corps before working in hospital settings • His experience in cardiovascular I...
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2 months ago
30 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Engineering the Future-Ready Healthcare Infrastructure
Tom Redding, Executive Vice President and Healthcare Practice Lead at St Onge Company, discusses why healthcare organizations need to regularly assess their supply chain operations to stay competitive and efficient in today's challenging environment. • The importance of taking a pause to benchmark operations, especially for new leaders who have about two years to make their mark • Why health systems should evaluate their department performance, consistency of workflows, and clarity of expect...
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2 months ago
34 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
We Can't Keep Doing the Same Things and Expect Different Results
Mark Van Sumeren, Managing Director at Health Industry Advisor, discusses the perfect storm facing healthcare: tariffs increasing costs, Medicare demands growing with the aging population, and critical workforce shortages. • Tariffs on medical supplies and devices creating immediate cost pressures with no easy way to offset them • By 2029, all baby boomers will qualify for Medicare, driving unprecedented demand for healthcare services • 60% of healthcare revenue comes from Medicare and Medic...
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3 months ago
32 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
The Heart of Healthcare Supply Chain: It's Not About Counting Beans
Régine Villain, SVP of Supply Chain at Ochsner Health and 2023 AMR Award winner, discusses healthcare supply chain resilience and the engineering mindset that has shaped her leadership approach. • Continuous supply disruptions require healthcare organizations to become "masters of resiliency" with dedicated teams focused on risk management • Defining what's truly "critical" in healthcare supply chain goes beyond cost—it's about what causes delays in patient care • Geographic challenges like ...
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3 months ago
31 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Designing Hospital Spaces for Tomorrow's Challenges
Struggling with hospital logistics as patient populations grow but your infrastructure stays the same? You're not alone. In this eye-opening conversation with Albert Nkansah, Project Manager at St Onge Company, we dive deep into the challenges facing healthcare facilities and the surprising solutions that can transform operations without breaking the bank. Albert pulls back the curtain on his current projects, revealing how he helps hospitals determine whether centralization makes sense and ...
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4 months ago
31 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
The Lean Advantage: How One Leader Transformed Three Different Supply Chains
What happens when military precision meets corporate efficiency in healthcare? In this eye-opening conversation, Chico Manning, Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Supply Chain at PIH Health and 2024 Bellwether League Future Famer Award recipient, takes us through his remarkable journey across three distinct supply chain environments. Manning's foundation in logistics began with seven years as a Marine Corps officer handling what he calls "the three B's: beans, bullets, and band-aids." Th...
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4 months ago
29 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Supply Chain Turbulence: Navigating Healthcare's New Reality
"The most stirred up soup I've ever seen in healthcare." That's how host Fred Crans describes the current state of healthcare supply chains in this eye-opening conversation with industry veteran John Strong. As healthcare systems face unprecedented challenges from multiple directions, Strong offers practical wisdom on navigating the turbulence ahead. Strong warns of three critical concerns reshaping healthcare's landscape. First, government reorganization threatens significant revenue disrup...
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5 months ago
28 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
The Best Kept Secret in Supply Chain Consulting
What happens when you combine a background in medieval literature with supply chain expertise? A fascinating perspective that challenges how we think about business problems. In this captivating conversation, Bryan Jensen, Chairperson/EVP of St. Onge Company, shares his remarkable journey from English major to supply chain consultant and the valuable lessons learned along the way. Bryan reveals how his unconventional career path created unique advantages, challenging the notion that technica...
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5 months ago
36 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
From Road to Nowhere to Healthcare Powerhouse
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6 months ago
29 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
The Power of Supply Chain Leadership
Amanda Chawla, Senior VP and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Stanford Health, shares insights on transforming healthcare supply operations from transactional processes to strategic networks. Recognized by Gartner for excellence, Stanford's approach focuses on people-centered leadership, organizational agility, and continuous reinvention to meet evolving healthcare challenges. • Supply chain transformation requires examining organizational foundations across people, process, and technology • St...
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6 months ago
24 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Disaster Planning Continuation: How Outside Expertise Transforms Healthcare Supply Chains
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7 months ago
28 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
The Human Touch: Why AI Can't Replace Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership
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7 months ago
27 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
From Me to We: Reimagining Healthcare Supply Chain Partnerships
Healthcare supply chain leaders have largely reverted to pre-COVID practices despite ongoing vulnerabilities, while simultaneously lacking the strategic sourcing skills and upstream visibility needed to build true resilience. Dr. Randy Bradley, from the University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business, explains why healthcare organizations remain dangerously unprepared for emerging threats like sophisticated cargo theft syndicates and global container shortages. • Healthcare organization...
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7 months ago
22 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Part 2: Navigating Healthcare’s Supply Chain Crisis: Insights from the Inside
Healthcare can instantly notify you about a critical lab result, but struggles to track the implant in your body. Why? Ed Hisscock, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Trinity Health, has spent his career wrestling with this paradox. Ready to understand why healthcare supply chains need transformation? Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode to join the conversation. Have questions or want to suggest a future topic? Contact Fred directly at fcrans@stonge.com. Send u...
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7 months ago
12 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Part 1: Navigating Healthcare’s Supply Chain Crisis: Insights from the Inside
Healthcare supply chains face unprecedented challenges amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ed Hisscock of Trinity Health shares insights on managing these crises, focusing on issues like talent shortages and data transparency. Discussion on supply chain issues in healthcare. Examination of workforce shortages and industry demands. Effective strategies for supplier partnership and accountability. If you have a topic you'd like to discuss or want to be a guest on the show, you can reach o...
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8 months ago
15 minutes

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Season three opens with a twist: Tom Redding takes the interviewer’s chair to explore Fred Kranz’s 60-year journey across healthcare logistics and supply chain. What follows is a fast-paced, deeply human conversation about resilience, mentorship, and the kind of innovation that doesn’t always look like a shiny device. From typing memos and walking hospital campuses to orchestrating complex, data-driven IDNs, Fred shows how the fundamentals—relationships, clarity, and integrity—scale with tech...