Today marks the very first European Prime Vendor delivery by Medline Services to our customer MV Santé in Switzerland.

MV Santé, a specialist in ambulatory surgery, has five clinics in the Geneva area, all served by Prime Vendor. Prime Vendor buys medical consumables from multiple suppliers, consolidates them on one platform and delivers them to multisite care providers. With this solution, Medline Services handles all the supply chain tasks so that hospitals and healthcare professionals can concentrate on what they do best: taking care of patients.

Jerome Monnot (VP Medline Service Europe), Jos Hallebeek (Prime Vendor Implementation Manager) and Bart Kraan (Engineer Operations Europe) are on-site to celebrate this milestone and inaugurate this exciting new service in Europe.
Learn more about Prime Vendor here.

One of Medline’s sustainability goals is to limit our environmental impact. To help mitigate the carbon footprint of our ocean, road, rail and air freight, our ‘One Container, One Tree’ reforestation initiative plants one tree in Europe for every inbound container of medical devices shipped from Asia and Europe.

This year in April, 2,500 trees were planted in Palencia, Northern Spain, through the social enterprise Reforest Action. And in April 2018, 2,000 trees were planted in Saint-Pierre-La-Bourlhonne, France. A total of 4,500 trees planted is a significant milestone, as it means all Medline product divisions are covered by ‘One Container, One Tree’.

Medline will continue to plant more trees in future in order to protect the environment whilst keeping up with the company’s growth.