
Smarter Sourcing · 2026-05-05 · 30 min
Jason Moulding , Chief Supply Chain Officer at MultiCare Health System , has spent 25 years building toward a supply chain function that leads M&A integrations, runs enterprise performance analytics, and holds its position at the executive table through leadership transitions. He walks through the strategic planning model he's been running since 2017 and how 3 iterations of a 5-year plan gave Multicare's supply chain the credibility and continuity to expand well beyond traditional cost and purchasing functions. Jason also gets into the operational side of resiliency, including a dedicated vertical staffed with FTEs running continuous environmental scans across distribution and first-tier manufacturers, a BI platform layered on top to compress response time, and a provider-to-provider SKU-sharing agreement he executed with a peer health system during the neurosponge shortage rather than competing for supply. His frame on the AI decision is the make-vs-buy question is live right now, and the organizations that answer it well will be the ones that already did the data infrastructure work.