Smarter Sourcing · 2026-05-26 · 32 min
Ben Haygood built his healthcare supply chain career from the ground up, starting on third shift stocking an ER at 19. Now, as Director of Strategic Sourcing at Piedmont Healthcare , the largest healthcare system in Georgia, he runs a centralized sourcing operation spanning 27 hospitals that has grown from 8 facilities in just 8 years. His perspective on supply chain is grounded in one consistent principle: every sourcing decision eventually reaches a patient. Ben walks through how Piedmont built its own 300,000+ square foot self-distribution center as a strategic buffer against supply disruption and what it actually looks like to integrate newly acquired health systems without breaking patient care continuity. He also gets into the real tradeoffs behind vendor consolidation, including a pacemaker programming story that illustrates exactly why "fewer suppliers, better price" is not always the right equation.
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