Welcome to BlueBin's Resilience Focus newsletter! We're excited to bring you insights on the intersection of comprehensive resilience, including supply chain resilience, patient care, and staff safety. This newsletter will provide valuable analysis and strategies to help you navigate the challenges of maintaining a truly resilient healthcare organization and supply chain. Stay tuned for expert insights and actionable tips to strengthen your decision-making in the face of adversity!
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MARGARET BOWERS SEES
What inspires your passion for the healthcare supply chain?
I’m passionate about the healthcare supply chain because it lets us drive meaningful impact at scale. At BlueBin, we work behind the scenes—solving problems, organizing workflows, and pushing for the next right step even when change is hard. When our solutions click, everyone wins: hospitals operate smoothly, supply teams and clinicians feel empowered, and patients receive better care. That ripple effect motivates me every day.
Can you share a specific “before and after” example of the impact of a BlueBin implementation?
One of my most memorable “before and after” stories involves an EP Lab supply coordinator who was overwhelmed, skipping lunch, arriving early, and staying late just to keep up. After implementing BlueBin, my PM and I did a week‑long time study: I shadowed him, pinpointed bottlenecks, and introduced targeted changes based on our SOPs. We limited orders to empty bins, avoided overstocking, and moved put‑away tasks to after lunch once deliveries arrived. By week’s end, he was noticeably less stressed, followed a transparent, efficient process, and even could manage more. That shift—from merely surviving to truly thriving—is the impact BlueBin delivers.
Outside of Work
My time usually starts with a fundamental debate—between me and my two corgis, Bernie and Tess—about which dog park we’re heading to that day. (Spoiler: they always win.) These two are my forever sidekicks, tagging along wherever they can. On sunny days, you’ll find us adventuring on beach walks or cruising down local trails—sometimes even by bike, if I’ve got enough energy to tow them behind me! When the weather’s not so great, I trade the outdoors for cozy quilting projects and getting lost in an Elin Hilderbrand book.
The World Economic Forum calls for a global shift toward climate-resilient health systems, highlighting that strategic investments in infrastructure, surveillance, and equity can prevent major losses and ensure healthcare remains functional amid escalating climate threats.
The HFMA 2025 panel highlighted that building rural healthcare resilience requires addressing unique challenges—such as limited bandwidth, differing financial models between urban and rural facilities, and operations continuity during disasters—through targeted collaborations among tech firms, health systems, and philanthropy.
In NHS hospitals, daily Operations Management meetings build resilience by enabling staff to interpret real-time data, manage risks collaboratively, and sustain morale under continuous system pressures.
BlueBin Client Success Story
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By implementing BlueBin’s Kanban system, the children's hospital built operational resilience by eliminating stockouts, minimizing waste, and ensuring uninterrupted access to critical pediatric supplies—even during staffing shortages and demand surges.
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How are you monitoring supplier diversification and visibility?
Request a Complimentary Supply Chain Resilience Assessment
For a limited time, BlueBin is offering a complimentary supply chain resilience assessment for healthcare organizations, including acute and non-acute facilities, to evaluate their resilience framework against industry-leading practices.
Note: BlueBin’s mission is to transform healthcare by enhancing the supply chain process, ensuring that patient care staff have the right supplies at the right time and maximizing efficiency. In line with this mission, BlueBin advocates for and supports the AHRMM Keys for Supply Chain Excellence. By focusing on improving inventory management, optimizing supply chain processes, and minimizing waste, we aim to reduce costs, accelerate operational efficiency, and enhance clinical outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The AHRMM Keys for Supply Chain Excellence serve as key performance indicators (KPIs), establishing essential standards for supply chain management in the healthcare field. Learn more about the AHRMM Keys.
Blog summary: Healthcare organizations must diversify suppliers and enhance transparent, end-to-end visibility across their supply chains—going beyond single-vendor reliance—to ensure agility, control costs, and safeguard patient care amid disruptions and crises.
Did you know? BlueBin helps healthcare organizations diversify suppliers and gain end-to-end visibility by delivering real-time analytics, vendor performance dashboards, SmartScan integrated ordering, and dynamic sourcing reports that expose over-reliance, track contract and cost variances, and enable proactive, data-driven supply decisions across the entire Kanban network.
Resilience Tip
Velocity-Driven Replenishment
Increase supply chain resilience by dynamically adjusting par levels using an item velocity report and handheld scanning error alerts. This ensures faster turns are matched with higher quantities while reducing the impact of incorrect or delayed orders.
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