Healthcare supply chain leaders are under pressure to improve service, reduce costs, and increase resilience, all while facing persistent labor shortages, growing complexity, and rising customer expectations. Rather than simply optimizing existing processes, leading organizations are fundamentally rethinking how their supply chains operate by redesigning workflows, simplifying operations, embracing automation, and building more agile operating models. 

• Join healthcare manufacturers, providers, and distributors as they discuss how they are transforming the way work gets done, balancing people, process, and technology to create more efficient, scalable, and resilient supply chain organizations. 
• Learn how leading organizations are redesigning supply chain operating models to improve agility, efficiency, and resilience 
• Explore practical strategies for reducing complexity through standardization, automation, and process redesign 
• Discover how organizations are balancing cost, workforce challenges, and service expectations while preparing for future growth 

PRACTITIONER ROUNDTABLES | Solving Today's Operational Challenges

Peer-driven conversations focused on practical challenges, implementation strategies, and lessons learned across planning, logistics, technology, supplier collaboration, and operational excellence. 

LogiLab #1: Improving Forecast Accuracy in an Unpredictable Environment 

Jeremy Padmos, SVP, Head of Diagnostics Supply Chain Management, Siemens Healthineers 

• Share strategies for improving demand visibility, leveraging data and analytics, and responding to fluctuating utilization patterns while maintaining product availability and service levels. 

LogiLab #2: Start-Up and Small Medtech  

Dutch Vandersand, VP of Supply Chain, Babson Diagnostics, Inc. 

LogiLab#4: Moving AI from Pilot to Practice 

Discuss the AI and automation initiatives delivering measurable results today, including lessons learned, adoption challenges, governance considerations, and opportunities for scale. 

LogiLab #5: Reducing Inventory Without Increasing Risk 

Explore approaches to inventory optimization, safety stock management, demand planning, and balancing resilience with financial and operational performance goals. 

LogiLab #6: Measuring and Managing Supplier Performance 

Exchange ideas on supplier scorecards, performance metrics, risk monitoring, supplier collaboration, and strategies for building stronger, more accountable partnerships. 

LogiLab #7: Balancing Cost Pressure, Resilience, and Supply Assurance 

Discuss how organizations are navigating budget constraints while investing in resilience, strengthening continuity plans, and managing disruption across increasingly complex supply networks. 

LogiLab #8: Reducing Variation and Driving Value Through Clinical Supply Standardization 

Explore best practices for engaging clinicians, reducing variation, supporting value analysis initiatives, and aligning product decisions with financial, operational, and patient care objectives. 

LogiLab #7: Scaling Automation in the Distribution Center: Where Are You Investing and What's Delivering ROI?