Andrea Andrews , Executive Director Procurement and SCM at SA Health , on transforming supply chain and procurement and the lessons learned from COVID
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Andrea Andrews , Executive Director Procurement and SCM at SA Health , on transforming supply chain and procurement and the lessons learned from COVID
With Andrea Andrews , Executive Director Procurement and Supply Chain Management , at the helm , SA Health has kicked off its supply chain and procurement transformation journey .
“ We ' ve spent a lot of time over the last couple of years trying to improve our processes and recognised that we needed technology for that . So we are looking to implement a contract management system this year . We ’ re also looking to implement a new catalogue management system for the thousands of products that we distribute across hospitals and SA Ambulance . We ' re really in the middle of our technological transformation whilst also trying to implement spend analytics as well .”
“ We use an ERP system here at SA health , and you don ' t want to throw out the baby with the bathwater , so to say . So we had to assess what we had and identify where the gaps were , and then develop that vision of where we wanted to be . It ' s taken us time . I would say at least three years to get us to the point where we are now looking to implement these changes . It ' s a big exercise . We have to implement it all across SA Health , in all our hospitals and across our network as well . When it comes to implementation and change management , it ’ s important to hit the right note . That ’ s a massive piece of the work , and so we spent a lot of time in the planning stage to ensure we get it right .”
128 June 2021