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Supply Chain Organization

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Supply Chain Organization

For a quick overview of the Supply Chain Organization, explore our ‘Supply Chain Organization By the Numbers’ booklet for a snapshot of our operations.

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About us

The Supply Chain Organization (SCO) primarily has four area of operations: Category Management, Purchasing, Logistics and Materials Management, Support Services and Business Programs and Services.

Procurement Management. Where sourcing, sustainable procurement, relationship management, and support operations come together. Category Management includes:

  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Sourcing
  • Contracting
  • Customer Service
  • Program Management
  • Purchasing Specialty Support Services
  • Category Strategy
  • Purchasing 
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Operations ensures our clinicians always have the right products when they need them.

  • Operations includes:
  • Courier Services
  • Customer Service
  • Demand Planning
  • Equipment Logistics
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Field Logistics
  • Perioperative teams
  • Control Tower

 

Shared Services. Shared Services assures smooth functionality of enterprise-wide programs. Shared Services includes:

  • Laundry Services
  • Design and Print Center
  • Fleet Operations
  • Sign Center
  • Travel Services
  • Asset Recovery
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Our fulfillment center

Our state-of-the-art Fulfillment Center is 191,000 square feet of a secure, climate-controlled environment that is operational 24 hours a day 365 days of the year. Supported by leaders, it opened in 2012 to take advantage of being our own distributor to:

  • Gain control of product flow. 
  • Provide supply assurance in times of market disruption 
  • Set and follow best practices through our people, technology, and innovation.
  • Create/build better supplier relationships. 
  • Create a platform for logistically aligned services. 
  • Allow facilities to order by the each. 
  • Eliminate much of the redundant inventory at facilities. 
  • Carry over 5,000 strategically selected items destined for our hospitals and clinics. 
  • Deliver more than two million medical supplies annually. 
  • Cold supply chain capabilities expanding availability of refrigerated items. 

 

Watch Walk in our shoes

If you would like to visit us in Salt Lake City, fill out our form schedule a visit and someone from our team will contact you. You will learn best practices and continuous improvement approaches that have earned us the #1 and Master ranking in the Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25.

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For Suppliers

We are becoming a model supply chain by ensuring our benefits to the customers and the low cost of services equals a great value both to the patient and to the company.

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Becoming a supplier

We strive to provide quality products and services that best serve our business needs and patients where the measurements are cost, quality, and outcomes.

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Current Suppliers

Intermountain Health’s supply chain organization, (SCO) strives to provide quality products and work with suppliers who have a commitment to process improvement, cost management, and customer service.

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Sustainability Commitment

Intermountain Healthcare looks favorably on suppliers who embrace sustainable practices and are local or diverse. We prefer suppliers whose methods translate to community and environmental stewardship through economic, environmental, and social impacts.

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Surplus items for sale

The Supply Chain Organization's Asset Recovery works with all of Intermountain Healthcare's surplus items. Place an order for surplus hospital items for sale.

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Intermountain policy requires our caregivers to engage with the SCO before contracting with any new supplier.  Products, equipment, and/or services that are not contracted or approved by Intermountain in advance and in writing are not allowed and Intermountain may refuse payment for such items. Suppliers that introduce non-contracted items could be sanctioned from all Intermountain facilities for up to 90 days or permanently.

Partnering with Vizient

In April of 2021, Intermountain Healthcare signed a 10-year membership agreement with Vizient, a group purchasing organization, with whom we collaborate.

Intermountain Healthcare and Vizient have leading processes in healthcare supply chain. Vizient customers can take the focus off commodities and elevate the supply chain to a strategic driver of change.

Intermountain is known for best practices in sourcing, distribution, and supplier collaboration. Vizient is Intermountain's partner to bring best practices to our customers through contract availability, sourcing methodologies, consulting services, and vision setting.

Driven by Intermountain's nationally recognized best practice clinical and supply chain solutions, Vizient provides tailored smart solutions that deliver optimal cost, quality, and clinical outcomes.

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Contact Us

General Information

Supply chain organization

7302 S. Bingham Junction Blvd.
Midvale, UT 84047

Phone: (801) 442-3300