Momper, Adam. Personal Interview. 23 October 2020
10/23/20 15:00-16:00
Adam Momper is a Supply Chain Administrator at UVA. Moved from Ambulatory to Supply Chain.
Video can be accessed at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10W5q8s-M1NWm4ME97knXCUozPLwgGO1t?usp=sharing
UVA Hospital’s SCM system:
- UVA Hospital uses a “Low Unit of Measure” system:
- Outside distributor
- Owens and Minor
- Medline
- Cardinal Health
- Outside distributor
- Also a Con-bon system:
- ‘4 days and 4 days’: There are 4 days of supplies available at any point in time
- Owens and Minor makes 3 deliveries a day to UVA (they have a distribution center 45 minutes away)
- UVA has a small offsite warehouse on Ivy Road
UVA Hospital’s Response to/Experience with COVID:
- In March, they bought 6 months (based on historical data) of extra PPE
- Some items will have seasonal adjustments
- Needle usage will increase during flu season, N95’s not so much
- Significant Fedex/UPS delays
- Flights in early march delayed (“Hectic”)
- Had some contracts+ connections through Darden
- Placed restrictions/rations on equipment
- Avoided being ‘burned’ – paying for supplies without receiving them
- Finally got some large orders in
- One of UVA’s pathologists developed 3d printed swab sticks (https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2020/08/25/uva-designed-covid-19-swab/)
- We blew through the SNS (https://hbr.org/2020/09/why-the-u-s-still-has-a-severe-shortage-of-medical-supplies)
- SNS will be essential- and regional
- Distributors can sell to states, who support a coalition of hospitals in a geographic region
- Longer term solutions
- Take risk away from hospitals/distribute it among them
- Define who will get what and how
- Detailed plan on the state/federal level
- Pandemic might push to more manufacturing closer the Americas
- Global Supply Chain is still sporadic
- 6-months package had mixed results but was a pretty good estimate
- Short on gloves
- UVA had to increase partnerships
- Owens and Minor does some quality control
- “Value Analysis/Management Department”
- Stuck to the vetting process (e.g. demanding samples before paying for items on the ‘Grey Market’)
Advice:
- ‘Don’t stop buying’ but be strategic
- Determine demand first
- Write about “If the market can’t supply you with swabs, then model doesn’t matter” in your thesis
- Be innovative
- Look up CDC PPE Calculator