Smarter Sourcing

The Smarter Sourcing podcast is dedicated to helping sourcing, procurement, and finance leaders elevate their influence and get their seat at the table. Each episode features conversations with innovative leaders, sharing best practices, lessons learned, and actionable insights you can apply immediately. Whether you’re focused on procurement strategies, supply chain optimization, or aligning financial goals with operational excellence, this podcast will leave you with actionable insights that you can immediately put to work.

Smarter Sourcing is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 57 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Smarter Sourcing, a technology show with 57 episodes published.

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  EP 57 - Cleveland Clinic's Stephen Downey On Centralizing, Standardizing, And Automating Supply Chain

  Aug 5, 202643 min

  Cleveland Clinic performs 300,000 surgeries a year and processes 80,000 instrument sets. Stephen Downey manages the supply chain behind all of it through three words: centralize, standardize, automate. That means enterprise-wide procedure cards, one knee tray, and off-site sterile processing modeled on facilities in Denmark and at Walmart. Stephen also breaks down how a monthly CEO review of indirect spend changed supply chain's standing, why healthcare capital utilization lags behind hotels, and what cross-industry benchmarking looks like when you're sourcing window washing. Topics discussed: - Centralizing, standardizing, then automating supply chain - Enterprise-wide procedure card standardization across all sites - Monthly CEO review of indirect spend as governance lever - Embedded sourcing experts within clinical and IT teams - Cross-industry benchmarking beyond healthcare for services spend - Capital utilization efficiency lessons from hotels and robotics - Building automated central service centers modeled on Walmart - AHRMM leadership and national supply chain case competitions Listen to more episodes: Listen on Smarter Sourcing Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube

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  EP 56 - Johns Hopkins Medicine's Burton Fuller On Building The Data Foundation To Measure Every Facet Of Supply Chain Performance

  Jul 14, 202635 min

  Eric O'Daffer speaks with Burton Fuller , Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine . Burton's team is connecting case schedule data from the EHR to their demand planning forecast, what Eric called the "holy grail" of demand planning. With a new cloud-based WMS, a replaced point of use system, and a new ERP all coming online within 18 months, Johns Hopkins is laying the foundation for intelligent automation across its operation. Burton shares how his team is rethinking what clinical integration means on the operations side, shifting from sourcing-only engagement to reliability-focused conversations with nursing and quality partners. He also breaks down how multi-tier supplier mapping helped Johns Hopkins navigate pandemic disruptions and continues to inform inventory adjustments and contract awards today. Topics discussed: Connecting EHR case schedule data to demand planning forecasts Implementing cloud-based WMS with automated demand planning modules Shifting clinical integration from sourcing events to supply reliability Using multi-tier supplier mapping to get ahead of disruptions Building case cart services in a clean room at the consolidated service center Tackling indirect spend through finance alignment and capital planning linkage Measuring supply chain performance through real-time data monitoring Partnering with suppliers to reduce consignment costs and solve shared problems Get in touch with Burton Fuller: LinkedIn Get in touch with your host, Eric: LinkedIn Listen to more episodes: Listen on Smarter Sourcing Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube

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  EP 55 - University of Vermont Health's Charlie Miceli On AI As The New ERP In Healthcare Supply Chain

  Jun 30, 202631 min

  When over 250,000 patients are mortally injured by medical error annually, supply chain has a direct stake that most organizations underestimate. Charlie Miceli , Former VP Network Chief Supply Chain Officer at University of Vermont Health Network , spent over 15 years in a role that reached well beyond procurement. Charlie and Eric O'Daffer cover AI as healthcare supply chain's new ERP inflection point, why CFO reporting creates real strategic advantage, and how the 40% of non-clinical spend that went largely ungoverned is now fair game. Topics discussed: Why supply chain should report to the CFO Building supplier trust that holds during a crisis Managing AI as healthcare supply chain's new ERP moment Using non-healthcare procurement frameworks inside healthcare supply chain Production rate awareness and continuity of supply fundamentals Cybersecurity as supply chain's patient safety responsibility Pursuing non-clinical spend that has gone largely ungoverned Building flexible teams before technology makes pigeonholing costly Get in touch with Charlie Miceli: LinkedIn Get in touch with your host, Eric: LinkedIn Listen to more episodes: Listen on Smarter Sourcing Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube

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  EP 53 - Piedmont Healthcare's Ben Haygood on Why Consolidating Vendors Can Cost Patients More Than It Saves Your Org

  May 26, 202632 minS0

  <p>Ben Haygood built his healthcare supply chain career from the ground up, starting on third shift stocking an ER at 19. Now, as Director of Strategic Sourcing at Piedmont Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Georgia, he runs a centralized sourcing operation spanning 27 hospitals that has grown from 8 facilities in just 8 years. His perspective on supply chain is grounded in one consistent principle: every sourcing decision eventually reaches a patient.</p><p>Ben walks through how Piedmont built its own 300,000+ square foot self-distribution center as a strategic buffer against supply disruption and what it actually looks like to integrate newly...

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  EP 52 - REHVÉAL's Regine Honore Villain on Flipping the Sourcing-to-Adoption Ratio

  May 20, 202635 minS0

  <p>Regine Honoré Villain spent 30 years inside complex enterprise environments watching brilliant strategies get handed off and quietly die. Not because the strategy was wrong, but because nothing was built to catch it. That gap between execution and organizational adoption is now the core focus of her advisory firm, REHVÉAL, and it reframes how she evaluates everything from AI readiness to vendor partnerships to where the next dollar of margin actually comes from.</p><p><br></p><p>Regine Honoré Villain, Founder & Principal at REHVÉAL™ and Former SVP, Supply Chain & Support Services at Ochsner Health, tells Eric why the tr...

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