About AHRMM / ASU

The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University have partnered to develop and deliver SCMetrix™, an online tool designed to assist healthcare organizations in establishing benchmarks for measuring supply chain performance improvements. This partnership will capitalize on AHRMM's member's expertise in health sector supply chain initiatives and on the W. P. Carey research team's experience in supply chain, accounting, and information systems both in the health sector and in other industries.

This unique partnership will bring best practices from other industries to the health sector, and will incorporate leading techniques to validate both the data and benchmarking practices being developed. The result will be a robust tool that will help move the materials management field beyond results-oriented financial metric benchmarking to a more comprehensive performance measurement and benchmarking industry standard that recognizes the importance of measuring value drivers and implementation of best practices in supply chain operations.

The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) is the leading national association for executives in healthcare resource and materials management. A personal membership group of the American Hospital Association, AHRMM serves more than 3,900 active members. Founded in 1962, AHRMM advances and supports the healthcare supply chain profession by providing leadership, education, resources and networking. For more information, visit www.ahrmm.org.

About W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU

W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University is one of the largest business schools in the United States, with more than 190 faculty members, 1,400 graduate students, and more than 2,700 upper-division undergraduate students. The school is internationally recognized for its leadership in supply chain management and services marketing and is highly regarded for its faculty's research productivity. Through its thought leadership in health management and supply chain, the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium is one of the only industry-university research partnerships in the U.S. and has funded cutting-edge research projects of interest to the health care industry.

For more information, on health sector supply chain initiatives please visit: wpcarey.asu.edu/shmp/consortium/index.cfm. More information on the W. P. Carey School of Business can be found at wpcarey.asu.edu and http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/.