Riyadh –– Nupco has been recognized by the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) with the 2026 SCOR DS Alignment Recognition Award for Performance Management. This honor acknowledges the company’s proactive commitment to building performance management infrastructure for Saudi Arabia’s public health procurement function and the significant strides it has made in aligning its operations with ASCM’s Supply Chain Operations Reference Digital Standard (SCOR DS).
As the central body responsible for sourcing medicines, medical equipment and consumables across Saudi Arabia’s public health system, NUPCO executed a comprehensive SCORmark benchmarking exercise in collaboration with ASCM and PwC.
Through a structured maturity assessment, the organization established SCOR-aligned defect analysis, standardized process flows and long-term roadmap to drive performance management at a national scale.
“Nupco’s deep engagement with SCOR demonstrates how leveraging foundational framework alignment and structured benchmarking can transform a public healthcare supply chain into a data driven, resilient operational model,” said ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE. “We congratulate the team on achieving this recognition and setting an inspiring example for the region and industry.”
About NUPCO
The National Unified Purchase Company (nupco), established in 2009 and wholly owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), nupco was created to unify medical procurement and improve purchasing efficiency across Saudi Arabia’s healthcare sector.
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