How e-commerce can simplify your evolving supply chain

Nov. 16, 2021
The pandemic-stricken era has created a renewed appreciation and urgency to reposition supply chain operations. Providers must be adaptive to market changes and leverage emerging technologies to ensure staff and patient care needs are met.

Join Bill Kopitke, General Manager and Head of Healthcare, Amazon Business, and a panel of hospital/IDN supply chain leaders with Rick Dana Barlow, Senior Editor, Healthcare Purchasing News, as they explore e-commerce and technology strategies and tactics to return some degree of sanity and stability to the ever-changing healthcare supply chain.

It is the right time to usher in the simplicity of procurement to the complexity of healthcare. 

Key takeaways:
  1. Most common reasons where Health Systems are leveraging e-commerce as strategic sourcing: global supply constraints and non-contracted spend.
  2. How to improve and oversee your procurement operations and experience through automation, online convenience and strategic expense management.
  3. How to make clinically acceptable, data-driven decisions through reliable techniques and tools shared by administrators and clinicians together.

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Presented by:

Bill Koptike
General Manager
Amazon Business Healthcare

Bill Kopitke is General Manager of the Healthcare division at Amazon Business, administrating the strategy, program developments, go-to-market, and overall performance. Kopitke’s focus is on supply chain transformation, leveraging Amazon’s e-commerce, distribution, and technology capabilities across industries including acute, outpatient, senior living, mental health, and specialty care.  Kopitke was previously the General Manager over Hospitals and Health Systems at Amazon Business, which has launched relationships with over 90 of the top 100 Health Systems nationally.   

Regine Villain
SVP, Supply Chain Network & Chief Supply Chain Officer
Ochsner Health

Patrick Murphy
Director, Supply Chain Procurement & Systems
City of Hope