stream and upstream visibility into inventory and the confidence that they are being taken care of . In addition to the supply risk , they have lived through the labor impact on their clinical and supply chain staff and how this affected their patients . It ’ s no longer enough for suppliers and distributors to say they ’ ve got things under control — they want the data on the inventory , as well as insight into the sourcing strategies .
In addition , many systems approached their suppliers asking about more domestic manufacturing in the very beginning of the pandemic . There was the
thought that if you moved everything to domestic manufacturing , then everything could be better or even fixed . As time went on , there was greater realization about some of the issues faced with domestic manufacturing — such as raw material shortages , packaging shortages , labor challenges , etc .—
leading to a broader conversation about resiliency and redundancy . It wasn ’ t always a matter of where you manufacture a product , but more about making sure that a distributor had multiple sourcing inputs in general , as well as diversified opportunities for sourcing raw materials . The discussions expanded
“ From my perspective at Medline , we ' ve always been good at understanding resiliency and making sure that we have redundancy and multiple sources . I think the thing that we have gotten even better at post pandemic is really understanding the full end-to-end of our supply chain impact , especially around raw materials .”
— Amanda Laabs , executive vice president of Medline Brand , Medline
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