The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) buys and distributes 60+ million doses of pediatric vaccine to about 60% of American children each year. More than 44,000 medical providers and state and local government clinics participate in the program.
But by 2003, new federal mandates helped drive the effort to improve CDC’s operational guidelines and program efficiency. The CDC engaged Booz Allen Hamilton to help it improve its distribution and monitoring of vaccine purchases through the reengineering of its vaccine management activities.
Booz Allen helped the CDC simplify funding processes and supply chains to generate program savings. The team helped analyzed vaccine management at federal, state, and local levels, and developed recommendations for ordering, inventory management, vaccine stockpiling, and more.
In addition, the program had given states autonomy over vaccine distribution services. But to gain the economies of scale of a nationally coordinated program, the CDC needed visibility into vaccine inventories, availability, and distribution. Booz Allen helped drive consensus for program changes with state immunization projects through a broad communications program that cultivated buy-in for the CDC’s strategy without taking a top-down approach.
The new strategy will include a national, centralized distribution system to improve inventory management and streamline operations. Already, Booz Allen has helped the CDC capture one-time inventory savings and substantial additional savings in operating costs. The national vaccine stockpile allows the CDC to weather vaccine shortages and balance inventories, so it can focus on increasing immunization levels and promoting its public health agenda.
Download a PDF version of the case study entitled, "Centers for Disease Control: Safeguarding the Delivery of Critical Childhood Vaccines."
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