BECTON DICKINSON
BD
: Ensuring a resilient , responsible and agile supply chain
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“ We ’ re looking at how we can help a community where our customers are living ”
KEVIN NELSON SENIOR VP & CPO , BD
Enhanced visibility via AI & ML “ To start building our supply chain of the future , we mapped our product lines to identify which ones are considered critical to healthcare ,” Nelson explains . “ These are products that the healthcare industry has deemed essential to care for the patients , and if they aren ’ t on the market , there ’ ll be a problem around meeting basic or routine healthcare needs .”
BD identified over a hundred different product lines that are critical to healthcare . Nelson and his team conducted an assessment on every product line , looking at every item in the bills of materials and ensured remediation is in place for the critical high-risk materials .
“ A product line may have a few items in the bill of materials , or it may have a few hundred items . We do an assessment on every item in that bill of materials and on every supplier , to see where potential risks are .”
BD creates a composite score that allows them to plot product lines to see which ones are in a high-risk quadrant .
12 bd . com / en-uk