Supply Chain Management

A task force made up of executives and staff members from our facilities across Trinity Health, all with strong purchasing, operations, clinical, or medical backgrounds. They work together to determine the best business relationships for Trinity Health, and ways to secure the best products at the lowest possible costs.

SCIS provides Trinity Health with easy access to vendor, item and contract master files. It is a powerful computer application that standardizes procurement, payment, and other supply chain processes and also makes reporting and analysis easy and accurate.

Each year, Trinity Health documents more than $50M in incremental cost savings, in addition to cost avoidance and other value added terms in our contracts. In the recent year, efforts have been split between cost reductions, inflation mitigation, and creative sourcing strategies to overcome the many product and raw material shortages in the global market. Annual savings go straight to the bottom line and are being used to support our Mission and our healing ministry in very important ways.

CPM provides oversight of scope, schedule, and budget management for major capital construction projects across our enterprise through consistent organization, process, and tracking structures that reinforce "cost informing design."

Trinity Health Supply Chain's strategic aim is to become the lowest cost-to-serve health care provider in the industry. We meet this objective by utilizing our shared, standardized procure-to-pay functionality across all of levels of ministry care and operating from a single ERP platform and data master. Trinity delivers on purchasing compliance and inventory performance expectations at the full system level. Our distribution capabilities can be leveraged system-wide or regionally based on the most efficient path for our ministries. We have full low unit of measure distribution capabilities and manage our own distribution system and warehouse system data. Our Trinity Dedicated Integrated Service Center (DISC) is accredited by NABP and holds licenses in 13 states. DISC services include traditional med-surg distribution, stockpile resiliency, higher acuity physician preference devices, and pharmacy capabilities.

This includes contract compliance, product standardization, and contract management activities.

We actively seek supplier partners that share our commitment to diversity, sustainability, and making a positive impact in the communities we serve. We are dedicated to continuous improvement and collaborating with suppliers to drive out waste and mitigate risk in our supply chains. Trinity Health is a member of Healthtrust Purchasing Group (HPG). Prospective suppliers should consider engaging HPG to become a contracted supplier. 

Trinity Health maintains that a direct line exists between supply chain management and our ability to provide quality patient care. With this guiding principle, our Supply Chain Management department will continue to find ways to drive down supply costs in order to provide the highest standards of patient care and service.

Trinity Health has chosen to partner with IntelliCentrics to provide supplier credentialing services. See link provided for additional resources to manage your IntelliCentrics SEC3URE account and stay up to date on all Trinity Health vendor representative requirements.

• COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement for Trinity Health Vendors

Trinity’s Supply Chain Management Program participants include owned, managed, and affiliate entities. Participating facilities can be found here.

Affiliates 
Affiliates are independently operating acute and non-acute entities that have partnered with Trinity Health & HealthTrust to manage their purchasing programs:

• Grande Ronde Hospital
• Munson Healthcare Grayling Hospital
• Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital
• Munson Healthcare Otsego Memorial Hospital
• Kalkaska Memorial Health Center
• Munson Healthcare Manistee Hospital
• Munson Medical Center
• Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital
• Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital
• Tri-State Surgery Center
• Ellis Medicine
• Adair County Hospital
• Dallas County Hospital
• Davis County Hospital
• Guttenberg Municipal Hospital
• Knoxville Hospital
• Madison County Memorial Hospital
• Manning Regional Health Care Center
• Monroe County Hospital
• Ringgold County Hospital
• Van Buren County Hospital
• Van Diest Medical Center
• Wayne County Hospital