About Us

Our mission is to provide services that add value and improvement in support of patient care for UCLA Health. The Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Department strives to become an acknowledged leader among service providers, recognized for innovative, high quality and cost effective approaches to meeting and exceeding our customers' expectations.  The Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Department takes pride in applying our core values:

• Seeking, establishing, and maintaining supplier relationships that foster the premise of best quality at the lowest total cost
• Improving processes to facilitate ease of procurement
• Identifying ways to improve the supply chain to maintain the lowest overall operational costs while still providing excellent patient care
• Understanding and responding to our customers' business needs and challenges
• Remaining open, competitive, and fair in our business practices
• Retaining the integrity and confidentiality of the information we utilize in compliance with applicable law and accreditation requirements
• Developing and fostering a dynamic, proactive, and committed relationship with all activities with which we are associated
• Continuously supporting the six pillars that are the hallmark of our commitment to caring: people, service, quality, finance, growth and innovation

UCLA Health and Procurement & Strategic Sourcing have always strived to lower costs and increase operational efficiency in healthcare supply chain. In order to accomplish this vital mission, Procurement & Strategic Sourcing partners with Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), the industry leader in supply chain automation and neutral electronic trading exchanges.

Through this collaboration, UCLA Health has earned GHX’s Best 50 2016 Award for Supply Chain Excellence. To qualify for this award, Procurement & Strategic Sourcing has processed more than 10,000 purchase order lines annually and ranks in the top 50 among 4,000 hospitals in the United States and Canada in price/product SKU/item UOM accuracy. This distinction represents UCLA Health’s commitment to clinical efficacy and improving patient care.