Supply and price assurance are more than just words to us. It’s our commitment to you
Addressing your needs through assurance strategies that bring providers, suppliers, distributors and Vizient together to improve cost, quality and reliability of care.
Supply Assurance: building a reliable, cost-effective supply chain
Managing your costs has never been more important. One of your biggest cost drivers, your supply chain, must be reliable and cost effective for you to be successful. That’s been hard the past few years with market disruptions and unstable pricing.
You need dependability, and Vizient can deliver it. With Vizient Assurance, providers can be confident that you’ll have the supplies you need, when you need them, to provide the best care possible. We’ll also ensure you get the most value from every dollar you spend, despite today’s ever-changing conditions. That’s our commitment to you. Learn more about our interrelated Assurance strategies.
Member resources
Vizient members can access these and many other supply and medication resources to sustain and improve both operations and patient outcomes. Login is required.
Stay current on market changes, understand supply access and cost impacts with these supply chain assurance resources and information. Do you need supply chain support? Contact us.
Supply chain resources
- Emergency and preparedness resource guide – The purpose of this emergency preparedness and resource guide is to equip healthcare providers with essential information and resources to effectively prepare, respond to and recover from emergencies or disasters. It serves as a comprehensive reference document that includes Vizient contracts, preparedness tools, state and national resources.
- Food for thought (Mar 2025) – Supply Chain Update is a supplement to the Vizient Food Program communication tool, Food For Thought. Our goal is to keep you abreast of time sensitive market and industry news.
- Facilities & Construction market insights Q2-2024 – Facilities and construction quarterly market insights include price and raw material trends, current product lead times and best practices.
- Capital and imaging market insights Q1-2025 – Capital and imaging quarterly market insights include price and raw material trends, current product lead times and best practices.
- Additional Payments for Domestically Produced NIOSH N95 Respirators – Biweekly reimbursements for the cost difference between domestically produced N95 respiratory masks and others have begun; ensure your facility reimbursement experts are submitting the required documents for biweekly payments.
Price Assurance Resources
- Price Assurance FAQ - Learn how working together with suppliers, members and supply analytic insights, we help ensure value is accessible, regardless of market dynamics.
- Spend Management Outlook - derived from the unique expertise and analytics from across the spend management team, this resource combines and expands on the predictive capabilities from our Budget Impact Projections report and Pharmacy Market Outlook. This report examines total expense management, including medical-surgical, laboratory, indirect spend, capital equipment, pharmacy and physician preference items in an integrated way.
- Supply chain impact intelligence - This monthly brief covers the current market and trends within energy, freight, raw materials and wages. The first section provides a high-level overview, followed by a heat map containing detailed inflation trends. The third section dives deep into the market fundamentals currently impacting prices and costs of manufacturing.
Supply chain programs
Vizient delivers unmatched savings and value through the industry’s most comprehensive supply chain programs. Learn how Vizient has you covered through the additional inventory of essential products, diversifying your supply chain through domestically manufactured products and more.
- Supply Risk Solutions – Encrypted and permission-based platform that gives participating providers access to supplier pedigree, event monitoring and risk analytics, with an access-level offering at no additional charge.
- Novaplus Enhanced Supply Reserve – the next generation of supply assurance begins with Novaplus Enhanced Supply Reserve, the most comprehensive, affordable solution for direct, easy access to essential medications that are at risk of short supply.
- Vizient Reserve – the Vizient Reserve program strengthens critical supply assurance through unique, committed partnerships between Vizient, providers and suppliers across all spend categories.
- Novaplus Enhanced Supply – The Novaplus Enhanced Supply Program promotes supply chain resiliency via agreements that deliver transparency and commitment to supply. By making additional months of inventory available, the program gives members improved access to critical products that are at risk of being in short supply.
- Vizient Domestic Sourcing – Vizient® Domestic Sourcing reflects our focus on identifying domestically manufactured products and expanding the availability of American-made sources.
Contract coverage updates
Contract coverage updates provide a summary of changing contract coverage with information to help mitigate the changes including programmatic impact and cross-reference support.
Hot topics
Latest news and updates affecting the supply chain
How we can help improve your access to essential medications and critical supplies
Supply assurance weekly digest
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Improving care with additional essential product access
Novaplus Enhanced Supply delivers access to additional inventory of essential medications and products. Our awarded suppliers produce additional supply to mitigate supply chain risk.
Connecting industry leaders to end drug shortages
The End Drug Shortage Alliance is a collaboration of select health systems, leaders in supply chain and other industry stakeholders dedicated to solving pharmaceutical supply challenges.
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