Beyond Control in Healthcare Supply Chain

How Healthcare Procurement is Becoming the Engine of Institutional Resilience

Procurement may be the most underutilized source of strategic advantage in healthcare. Not because leaders don’t value it, but because most have never truly seen what it can do. Hidden inside the noise of transactions is a system-wide vantage point no other function holds: the ability to see cost, risk, innovation, and institutional behavior in a single frame.

Executives who tap this capability don’t just manage volatility—they convert it into momentum. They build organizations that sense disruption early, move resources faster, and partner more intelligently. This paper reveals why procurement has become the new engine of institutional resilience, and why those who continue to treat it as a control function will soon be outmaneuvered by those who don’t.