ABOUT SIGHTLINE PERFORMANCE ADVISORS
The supply chain in healthcare exists to serve the patient. While supply chain management may appear daunting, it is fundamentally about five factors: the right item, the right place, the right time, the right quantity and the right price.
When these five factors are achieved, it is reflected clearly in the bottom line. Anything else is secondary and a distraction from the true purpose of health care: enabling the healing of the sick and injured. If your supply chain does not demonstrate these five factors, now is the time to investigate what is really going on, what your true costs are and where you are losing value, in order to determine the best path forward to fix what may be broken.
ABOUT KURT HEYSSEL
Kurt Heyssel is a highly skilled, knowledgeable supply chain executive who always puts the patient first. Heyssel seeks the input and voice of the clinicians he serves, and endeavors to support them in their efforts at all times, with the understanding that the supply chain is an integral part of any clinical operation—without it, no healing occurs.
Heyssel has 30 years of experience with transforming operations in support services and supply chains. Healthcare organizations he has worked with have saved over $110 million thanks to his contracting strategies, operational improvements, and use of Lean and other methods to generate a significant positive financial impact.
Heyssel’s experience with the development and implementation of supply chain and support services strategies and tactics for large medical centers (600+ beds) and health systems give Heyssel first-hand knowledge of what is important and what is secondary. His additional experience in distribution, GPOs, and manufacturing provide a deeper understanding of how systems actually work and how they should work.