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healthcare university of kansas health system
www.kansashealthsystem.com / Headquarters: Kansas City, Kansas / Specialty: Level I trauma center / Brian Dolan, senior director of supply chain: "It wasn't all puppy
dogs and rainbows. It was a difficult time and the most difficult project I have ever undertaken. But we stuck together and got stronger."

Improving Efficiency
The University of Kansas Health
System is a nonprofit network of
more than 50 hospitals and clinics
throughout Kansas and Missouri.

Brian Dolan faced a challenging task. After being appointed
to the newly created position as
senior director of supply chain at
the University of Kansas Health
System, he sought to consolidate
a system that had many chains.
"We couldn't even call what we
had four years ago a supply chain,"
says Dolan, who took on his new
role four years ago. "There were
different parts of supply chain in
different areas and each did their
own thing. Surgical departments
were separated from inpatient
units and even the business functions were decentralized."
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University of Kansas Health System consolidates
the hospital's supply chain. By Kat Zeman

The University of Kansas Health
System is a nonprofit network of
more than 50 hospitals and clinics
throughout Kansas and Missouri.
Working with the hospital's
contracting and procurement
personnel, Dolan wrote a proposal
for a consolidated supply chain
and how it would help improve the
hospital's services.
"I drew a diagram with the
different supply chain bubbles that
existed and then how it should
look," Dolan says. "We negotiated
with every department for how to
take in their supply chain personnel in order to become one team.

We worked together to figure out
how to make things more efficient.
Our No. 1 focus was to improve
efficiency in customer service."

A Major Change
One of the first biggest projects
that Dolan had to tackle to improve supply chain efficiency was
to evaluate the hospital's off-site
service center, which served as a
distribution warehouse.
"We identified that it wasn't
producing the level of service
we wanted it to and that it would
take a lot of money to improve it,"
Dolan says.



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