A supply chain curriculum for the people who keep hospitals running, written by someone who started at the dock.

Built for people new to acute and non-acute medical supply chain.

Twelve modules covering receiving, inventory, procurement, strategic sourcing, value analysis, and the procedural areas where most of the spend lives.

12 Modules

126 Cards

14 Scenarios

Self-paced Format

How it connects

Healthcare supply chain works as a loop, not a hand-off chain.

Data governance shapes what you can see. Sourcing and value analysis decide what gets bought. Procurement runs the transactions. Operations gets product to the floor, and what happens there feeds back into governance for the next cycle. The curriculum walks through it in that order.

Who this is for

Built for the people entering the work, and the leaders bringing them forward.

This curriculum is the foundation for acute and non-acute medical supply chain work, written from inside the field. It supports the people stepping into this responsibility, and the leaders responsible for helping them understand the work behind patient care.

One curriculum, two entry points, a shared foundation.

New to supply chain work

A buyer, technician, coordinator, or support team member learning the role as they go
A clinical professional moving into supply chain operations
A career changer stepping into healthcare supply chain for the first time
A student in a supply chain, healthcare administration, or operations program

Leaders developing people

A manager onboarding new staff without a foundational program to point them to
A director who recently inherited supply chain responsibilities from another function
A practice administrator standardizing how new buyers get oriented across sites
An operations leader trying to understand what this team actually does

The material is foundational, practical, and operational, built for entry-level learners, mid-career professionals, and the leaders supporting them.

A curriculum written by someone who works in this field every day.

The content comes from years of running supply chain operations across multiple health systems, from the ground floor up to the director level. It's original work, U.S. copyright registered, written and maintained by the author.

Author

Daniel Patrie

Director of Supply Chain Operations & Logistics. MBA, PMP, CMRP, CPhT, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Experience across multiple health systems.

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