In today’s healthcare landscape, staffing shortages are at crisis levels. Over 72 percent of healthcare providers say labor costs are a key challenge carrying over for their organizations from 2023, while more than 50 percent expressed continued issues with labor availability, according to Premier’s 2024 Resiliency Report. This shortage may impact supply chain operations, potentially limiting the ability of hospitals and health systems to innovate, transform and continue providing high quality patient care.
We understand that transforming your supply chain during a workforce shortage can feel daunting. Our comprehensive engagement model provides expert support at every level of your supply chain, ensuring that healthcare organizations can thrive even under challenging conditions.
Saint Francis Health System recently utilized Nexera workforce support to advance their supply chain maturity while facing staffing challenges. Following Nexera’s completion of a supply chain strategic plan, Saint Francis was in need of skilled resources to execute on transformation efforts – with labor challenges, the organization tapped into Nexera for interim support focused on three main areas:
- Sourcing/Contracting
- Inventory and Logistics
- Value Analysis
As a result, Saint Francis gained invaluable support operating their supply chain in each area mentioned above while also seeing more than $5.6 million in implemented savings.
Listen firsthand to how Saint Francis and Nexera partnered together to enhance their supply chain operations while navigating labor shortages.
- Philip Smith | Executive Director, Supply Chain, Saint Francis Health System
- Kenny Scher | Vice President, End-to-End Supply Chain, Nexera
Nexera’s Approach to Supply Chain Transformation
Nexera specializes in helping healthcare organizations operate their supply chains, even amid staffing constraints. Through either a short-term or comprehensive engagement model, Nexera integrates its expert team into healthcare operations to develop sustainable, cost-saving processes across the entire supply chain. Services include:
- Assess and Design or Redesign: From inventory and logistics management to technology optimization, Nexera customizes its strategies to meet the unique needs of each organization by assessing supply chain operations today, understanding the goals for tomorrow and helping develop a road map to provide the right services within an organization.
- Implement or Optimize, Support and Transform: Either in part or fully, we help organizations implement their strategic plan or roadmap at every level of the supply chain.
- Augment, Operate or Manage: With extensive experience in supply chain management, Nexera supports hospitals by providing seasoned staff and driving efficient processes.
Why Nexera?
Nexera’s differentiator lies in our holistic, end-to-end approach created specifically for healthcare organizations. We can assess every level of the organization’s supply chain, identifying opportunities for transformation that improve financial performance and streamline operations while maintaining the healthcare organization’s high standards of patient care. Our engagements provide hand-in-hand support to ensure that improvements are sustainable and replicable across the healthcare system.