Consulting Services

Jamie C. Kowalski Consulting, LLC (JCKC) offers consulting to healthcare providers and suppliers in all areas of Supply Chain Management.

Provider focused consulting helps clients develop a future vision and strategic directions, prepare and execute optimization models and processes, and, as indicated, reduce operating expenses, without any negative effects on the quality of care.

Supply Chain Management Strategies clients are guided to consider, assess and develop are: Standardization, Consolidation, (some degree of) Centralization, Customer Satisfaction Focus, Optimization, Technology Optimization, and Collaboration (with suppliers, this means acting like an efficient customer). 

Supplier focused consulting results in suppliers developing a better understanding of customers' views, operating processes, challenges, limitations, and expectations.  It offers  direction toward determining whether supplier offerings are relevant and a solid match with customers' needs. It includes validation of  real value propositions, and /or need for substantial modification of capabilities, messaging and channels.

Also available are focus group-type, Roundtable discussion events facilitation to gain an intimate view of customers' situation and issues.

For the last 30 years, the JCKC team and its predecessor firm, Kowalski-Dickow Associates, Inc, (KDA), have helped  hospitals and IDN clients save over $ 1 Billion.