AI Planning for Hospitals & Health Systems | Ceres
Hospitals & Health Systems
By the time your vendor calls, the shortage is already yours to manage
Ceres gives hospital supply chain teams early warning on procurement disruptions — linking every SKU in your formulary to its manufacturing location, distribution path, and upstream risk factors before the call ever comes.
Risk Vectors
Your ERP tracks what you ordered. It has no idea what's happening upstream.
The signals that identify a shortage are visible. They're just not inside your four walls.
Natural Disasters
Hurricanes, floods, and severe weather events that knock out manufacturing facilities weeks before vendors notify customers.
Trade & Tariff Shifts
Country-of-origin changes and tariff policy that affect your cost and availability — tracked at the SKU level, not just headlines.
Concentration Risk
SKUs tied to a single manufacturing site or distribution center — the hidden single points of failure in your formulary.
Vendor Opacity
10+ Billion Data Points
Data points across geopolitical, economic, raw materials, logistics, and other categories, with over 35,000 data categories to identify risk.
From reactive to proactive
Three capabilities your supply chain team can use today that don't require a vendor to call first.
Supplier-to-SKU Mapping
Automatically link every item in your formulary to its manufacturing location, distribution path, and upstream dependencies. Know which SKUs are exposed before an event hits.
Disruption Early Warning
Receive alerts up to 90 days before your vendor reports a clinical shortage. When a weather event, port shutdown, or facility closure hits your supply chain, Ceres surfaces it first.
Tariff & Compliance Tracking
Automatically identify HTS codes, countries of origin, and tariff exposure across your formulary. No more analysts going product by product through boxes and PDFs.
Where hospitals are using Ceres today
Transforming reactive purchasing into proactive intelligence.
Formulary Risk Scoring
Score every item in your formulary by supplier concentration, geographic risk, and disruption history. When 2,000 SKUs need monitoring, you need to know which 50 are actually exposed today.
300k+ SKUs Monitored
90 days Early Warning Lead
Multi-Tier Visibility
- Tier 1 Direct 100%
- Tier 2 Components 64%
See past your distributors into their suppliers — the tier most health systems have zero visibility into.
OR & Surgical Supply
Bring data-driven planning to the service lines that can't afford a stockout — replacing tribal knowledge with structured, auditable intelligence.
Stop being dependent on a vendor email that may never come
- Get ahead of shortages by monitoring weather, logistics, and financial risk at the facility level — not the headline level.
- Automatically map SKU exposure to countries of origin and tariff classifications — without analysts working through boxes and PDFs.
- Replace fragmented point solutions and spreadsheet analysis with a single, integrated risk intelligence layer.
- Integrates directly with your existing ERP — no rip-and-replace.