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of tomorrow, a company will need to maintain eibility and be able to shift gears quickly. omestic production, said nika Sutter, a iient Portfolio Eecutive, has become more of a focus. Members are interested in being more localied, she said. Epectations have grown, she said, for more specific product information, Sutter said. or instance, they are more concerned than ever about each products pedigree where the components were sourced. When the first wave of CO- started its assault on the
U.S. healthcare system, elective surgeries nearly everywhere were put on hold. emand for surgery-related products was put on hold too, said ionel onte, ice President of Medical usiness, hlstrom-Munkso. eadership at the innish company moved its focus away
from the steriliation wraps that had been a reliable part of their lineup, and doubled down on production of PPE items most needed during the pandemic. s a result of the material scarcity driven by the shortage,
our mi (of products) has shifted toward higher demand in the face mask and the drapes and gowns category, onte said. We went to great lengths of operational agility to increase capacity, restart dormant assets and restaff eisting assets, he said. We were also very successful in adapting our portfolio to meet the growing demand of face mask and isolation gowns by developing and validating new products.
War room One of iients first moves in response to CO- and sup- ply chain concerns was to open channels of communication between manufacturers, suppliers and end users. s shortages grew, we had to ensure provider needs were
met, said Mallinckrodt. We set up what we call the War Room to field provider questions, validate new products and provide near real-time information to members as well as clinical support in cross-referencing and substitutions during the shortfall. Mallinckrodt said iient already had been working to create
a system of transparency, and to develop a broader network of suppliers.
CO pushed those initiatives forward faster, she said.
llison Pearsall, oneywell Senior Product Management eader, ealthcare PPE, said her company also wasted no time making adustments. oneywell quickly invested in the rapid addition of multiple production lines in the U.S. and orth merica to produce OS (ational nstitute for Occupational Safety ealth) -approved respirators and surgical respirators to help fill the significant gap in the market supply, she said. oneywell is now one of the leading brands of s for the healthcare segment. or Cardinal ealth, the advantages of having manufacturing
and supply channels close to home were evident even before CO- came ashore in the U.S. ut the arrival of the virus added a real sense of urgency. We were pursuing moving production of key items of our infection control apparel and facial protection portfolios, a rie said. he pandemic underscored this need for a strict qual- ity control process and resilient supply chain in orth merica. oday, the company is launching more than new PPE items, a rie said, all manufactured in orth merica.
New approaches, new products ai Edmund, ice President ealthcare, rone nternational, said his company, which supplies disposable isolation and pro- tective gowns, eam-grade gloves and face masks, managed to weather the storm by diversifying locations for manufacturing. rone ealthcares longstanding supply resiliency strategy
of optimiing production diversification, maintaining deep and continually epanding manufacturing capacity and capabili- ties, and maintaining US-based program supply buffers across multiple national warehouses, Edmund said, proved essential to assuring our program (provides) customers robust supply. n addition to new lines of PPE products and new services -- introduced during some very difficult months of the pandemic -- a new team at a familiar company made its debut.
libaba.com Select uses the Chinese companys global online marketplace model to source PPE and get those products to where theyre most needed. We are seeing that there are issues across many product categories, said osh Price, ead of Strategy Operations
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