Supply Chain and Support Services serves the integrated clinical, academic and research mission of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. We are focused on enabling the achievement of the Medical Center vision through the development and management of standardized approaches to ensuring the strategic assessment, sourcing, distribution, and logistics of all non-salary spend.
Supply Chain and Support Services is comprised of four main divisions that include: Supply Chain Operations, Strategic Sourcing, Value Analysis, and Clinical Equipment.
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Vision Statement
Supply Chain and Support Services will enable achievement of the Medical Center vision through the development and management of standardized approaches to ensuring the strategic assessment, sourcing, distribution, and logistics of all non-salary spend.
Key attributes:
- Non-salary spend
- Sourcing, distribution and logistics
- Strategic assessment
- Standardized approach
Core values:
- Subject matter expertise
- Customer service
- Facilitation
- Execution
- Speeding up change
- Communication
Integration Goals
- Reorganization: Implementation of resource management re-structure
- Value Analysis: Define, communicate, and launch a Medical Center-wide program
- OR Supply Chain: Collaborate with surgical services to develop a supply management strategy to include inventory systems
- Centralized Equipment Distribution: Develop a comprehensive program to better manage movable equipment through a central group
- PeopleSoft: Successfully integrate and upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.1
- Cost Savings Goals: 5 year - $70MM
Uniform Guidance
The Medical Center has delayed the implementation of the Uniform Guidance Procurement Standards until July 1, 2017 as provided by the waiver of the procurement rules stated in COFAR FAQ, Section 110-6. In the interim, the OMB Circulars will apply to grants and cooperative agreements.
Update on Uniform Guidance
May 17, the following will be available in the Federal Register. However, this pre-notice should be considered official.
In summary: “For all non-Federal entities, there is an additional one-year grace period for implementation of the procurement standards in 2 CFR 200.317 through 200.326. This means the grace period for non-Federal entities extends through December 25, 2017, and the implementation date for the procurement standards will start for fiscal years beginning on or after December 26, 2017.”