From Counting to Orchestrating: How Connected Data and Automation Transform Healthcare Inventory Management | Webinar

Healthcare supply chain teams are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs, eliminate waste, and ensure product availability without overstocking. But manual processes and disconnected systems often leave organizations reacting instead of orchestrating. This session explores how connected data, digital twins, and automated workflows are reshaping inventory management: from basic counting to fully coordinated, predictive operations.

Attendees will learn how a digital twin provides near real-time visibility across facilities, enabling precise forecasting and smarter replenishment decisions. We’ll break down how to integrate diverse data sources, including purchasing patterns, usage data and trading partner feeds to build an end-to-end operational strategy grounded in actual demand. Finally, we’ll examine how automation supports more reliable processes, reduces waste, and strengthens financial performance amid growing cost pressures.

Participants will leave equipped with real-world examples of streamlined inventory orchestration and practical steps to begin transforming their own supply chains.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand how a digital twin creates real-time visibility, enabling more precise forecasting and smarter replenishment decisions
• Learn how to apply data sources such as purchasing, supplier feeds and more to create an end-to-end operational strategy grounded in real-world demand
• Discover how automated workflows boost reliability, reduce waste, and support financial performance under increasing cost pressures.

SPEAKERS 

Sarah Charai
Executive Director, Supply Chain Operations
Cleveland Clinic

Sarah Charai joined Cleveland Clinic as the Executive Director of Supply Chain Operations in August of 2023. In this role, she leads a team of 500 employees who support supply chain operations at Cleveland Clinic sites including an Inventory Management Center of Excellence.  Sarah has over 20 years of healthcare experience developing, executing and managing system-wide supply chain strategy for large IDNs. She began her career in strategic sourcing and then stepped into progressive leadership roles on the operations side of the house.  She counts mentorship, her team’s career growth and advancing women leaders among her professional pride points.

Jared Featherstone 
Director-Supply Chain Management, Supply and Demand Planning
Mayo Clinic

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