Sector initiative
Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
Facilities are paid by insurers and schemes on long, unpredictable cycles while their suppliers expect conventional terms. The mismatch is structural, not occasional.
This sector is mostly suppliers
Suppliers to hospitals and schemes (consumables, devices, pharmaceuticals) wait on payment cycles set by third-party payers rather than by the facility.
And the other side
Buy side runs through pharmaceutical distribution to pharmacies and clinics, which buy stock and turn it.
If you are the anchor here
A program in this sector usually starts on the side named above, because that is where the constraint binds hardest and the proof arrives fastest. It rarely stays there.