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The Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI) is a consortium of executives representing healthcare providers; medical products, pharmaceuticals and supply chain distribution companies; and service businesses united to re-engineer and advance the future of the healthcare supply chain for the purpose of improving the overall healthcare marketplace in the United States. Through SMI, members have produced an open, non-competitive forum for innovative idea-exchange and the development of collaborative process improvement initiatives. The mission of SMI is to establish new standards of supply chain performance for delivering healthcare to patients and their communities SMI was formed to act as a change agent for healthcare, providing a critical mass representing key industry stakeholders and decision makers within the healthcare supply chain. By sharing best practices and through collaboration, tools and techniques are developed that members can take back to their organizations and customize to meet their unique needs. As SMI is dedicated to improving the entirety of the healthcare supply chain, all such tools / findings / improvements / established best practices are made available free of charge to the healthcare marketplace at large. Learn more at: www.smisupplychain.com