Black Book Warns Boards: Healthcare Supply Chain IT Has Become a Margin-Control Issue

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New 2026 report finds weak visibility, slow substitute approvals, and manual exception workflows are eroding margin and continuity of care, while control towers, workflow orchestration, and connected supply chain IT emerge as the fix.

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / April 16, 2026 / Black Book Research today reported that healthcare supply chain is no longer a back-office purchasing function but a board-level margin-control issue, with new 2026 data showing providers are still reviewing one of their largest non-labor margin levers too infrequently to manage the risk effectively.

The firm's new 75-page market e-book, The State of Healthcare Supply Chain Technology 2026, shows that hospitals and health systems are being forced to rethink supply chain technology under intensifying margin pressure, disruption exposure, workforce strain, and rising governance demands. Its core finding is stark: healthcare supply chain is now one of the largest under-governed non-labor margin levers in the provider enterprise.

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