Objectives: Our vision is to design sustainable solutions to the day-to-day challenges in material management of healthcare organisations in Switzerland.

This working group aims at unfolding the creative process of innovation to develop a research project in order to increase collaboration between healthcare supply chain stakeholders in Switzerland and to meet day-to-day, as well as future, challenges

What it is about?

To create solutions to the day-to-day challenges that healthcare organisations meet in their material management with a long-term vision to ensure its sustainability.

How often do you meet?

• Group meetings: 6 times a year

• Conference calls: per request

• Ad-hoc meetings: per request

Which topics are discussed?

• What do we want to achieve while managing the healthcare supply chain?

• What are the points of tension in material management of healthcare organisations?

• How can we model the current state and the desirable state?

• How can we reframe our objectives in the bigger picture to enhance a systemic vision?

• What does that mean to ensure sustainability in healthcare supply chain?

• How can collaboration help in meeting our objectives?

• How can we use new technologies?

Participation fee: Free for VNL members

Working group lead