Talking Supply Chain: Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions Remakes the Supply Chain

During COVID-19, health care supply chains faced enormous pressures. Tasked with shipping critical medical supplies to medical facilities, hospitals, and now customer’s home locations as e-commerce boomed, suppliers rushed to revamp their operations.

For Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions business, it presented opportunity. And that opportunity has helped it grow the business post-pandemic, highlighted by a new facility coming online in Ohio that represents the future of Cardinal Health’s at-Home supply chain.

Mike DeSimpelaere, vice president of network operations, and Jamie Deist, vice president of warehouse operations for Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions, join Talking Supply Chain host Brian Straight to discuss the growth of the business and how it has adapted to the new world of the healthcare supply chain.

The at-Home Solutions business includes 10 current facilities with a new location being built in Greenville, South Carolina. In total, those facilities will total more than 2 million square feet of distribution space and allow at-Home Solutions to ship to 99% of the U.S. population within 1 to 2 business days.

DeSimpelaere and Deist explain how that happens and what the future looks like for the at-Home Solutions business, including what the warehouse of the future looks like.