Adrian Wengert has supply chain in his blood. His grandmother managed supplies at a hospital in Twin Falls, Idaho, and his father managed inventory in a military warehouse. His son, Adrian, spent many weekends in that warehouse. “He’d hand me a broom and tell me that keeping the floor clean is good warehouse etiquette,” says Wengert, who grew up in and around Boise, Idaho.
His first job was working in a distribution warehouse at age 18. He spent 10 years in non-healthcare supply chain, leading distribution, operations and inventory management before transitioning into healthcare as logistics manager at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (in Boise) in 2003, for whom he ultimately served as director of supply chain. He joined Saint Luke’s Health System in 2014.