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BLF releases updated Supply Chain Maturity Assessment Tool (SCMAT)

SCHAUMBURG, IL (October 03, 2025) — Are you a hospital or healthcare organization that needs a cost-conscious way to assess your supply chain department’s overall performance but don’t have room in the budget to bring in an independent consultant or one from your group purchasing organization (GPO) or supplier?

Think about doing it yourself. Bellwether League Foundation (BLF) will help you.

How? BLF announces the release of its updated Supply Chain Maturity Assessment Tool (SCMAT) as a cost-conscious way to self-assess your internal operations, identify areas for improvement and make plans to boost performance.

Contact BLF headquarters at info@bellwetherleague.org for more information and to receive the licensing agreement. BLF directs all proceeds from SCMAT licensing fees to its philanthropic program that includes the Collegiate Capstone Project and scholarship funds for students and executives.

About Bellwether League Foundation

Bellwether League Foundation™ (BLF) is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable foundation that offers programs to educate, endow and evaluate professionals in healthcare supply chain performance excellence. BLF accomplishes this through its primary operation, the Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of Fame™, its growing philanthropic efforts, which include Collegiate Capstone Projects and scholarships and its various multimedia properties.

The Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of Fame™ evaluates and validates professionals submitted for consideration in its three award programs: Bellwether Honorees, Ammer Honorees and Future Famers. The Hall of Fame also offers educational and professional development content via the annual Bellwether Leadership Symposium and its "Leaders & Luminaries" multimedia properties of online and printed content.

The Hall of Fame selects deceased, retired and currently active professionals with a minimum of 25 years of exemplary service and leadership performance in supply chain operations that meet its criteria to be recognized publicly as Bellwether Class Honorees. Future Famers represent supply chain professionals early in their healthcare careers (first 10-12 years) who do not yet qualify for Bellwether consideration but have contributed meaningfully to the profession and industry.

Honorees who receive the "Dean S. Ammer Award for Healthcare Supply Chain Performance Excellence" represent noteworthy executives and professionals in the middle of their careers who, through their innovative leadership and influential project management experience, best exemplify the practice and spirit of healthcare supply chain performance excellence.

To date, the Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of Fame has inducted 148 innovators, leaders and pioneers in healthcare supply chain management in seven distinct categories: Provider-Based Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Distribution, Group Purchasing, Consulting Services, Academia and Media. The Hall of Fame also has recognized 45 Future Famers and eight Ammer Honorees.

BLF's philanthropy efforts support capstone educational and developmental projects, grants and scholarships to college-bound high school students who plan to study supply chain curricula, current college students who major in supply chain-related careers and professionals who pursue continuing education through associations and universities.

BLF salutes its six sustaining sponsors at the Founding/Platinum level — GHX, Northwestern Medicine, Owens & Minor, Premier, Vizient and Wingfoot Media — and more than 20 additional sustaining sponsors at the Gold, Silver and Bronze levels. This dedicated group represents manufacturers, distributors, group purchasing organizations (GPOs), integrated delivery networks (IDNs), consulting firms, professional associations and media. BLF also appreciates and thanks its devoted corporate and professional donors for their generosity, participation and partnership.

Launched in late July 2007 by a group of influential veterans in the healthcare supply chain industry, BLF began as an independent 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation that upgraded to an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable foundation in January 2021

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