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Supplier-enabled innovation

Johnson & Johnson has built a strong, resilient supply base by integrating its suppliers as an expansion of our network and capabilities. Our suppliers reflect all facets of the communities we serve. Through our supplier-enabled innovation program, we leverage their diverse and unique expertise to co-create innovative solutions that address unmet needs and reimagine the future of health.
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Suppliers

Our suppliers help us fulfill our mission to help transform healthcare with innovative supplier solutions.

Securing the future of surgery, one staple at a time

Faced with the challenge of improving stapling performance for consistent outcomes in challenging tissue, Ethicon drew inspiration from its broad and talented supplier base.

At the heart of innovation: How China’s procurement team and AI are helping AFib patients

In China, when the need for a highly advanced, nonsurgical treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib) exceeded the supply of doctors trained in the lifesaving procedure, Johnson & Johnson’s Procurement team asked for a chance to help. Thanks to quick actions and truly disruptive thinking, a new innovation in sourced artificial intelligence (AI) is now responsible for training physicians and, in turn, changing the trajectory of health for AFib patients throughout the country.

Curing cancer from within: The promise of cell therapy

Harnessing the immune system to target cancer is the goal of a groundbreaking area of oncology research called cell therapy. And Johnson & Johnson is hard at work in the cutting-edge field, aiming to deliver potential new treatment options to people around the world.

3 cutting-edge eye lenses designed to help improve how you see

Multifocal contacts based on your pupil size. Intraocular lenses that adapt to our digital world. These are just some of the new Johnson & Johnson advances poised to change the future of vision care.

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Getting in front of cancer

Every year, roughly 2 million people in the U.S. are newly diagnosed with cancer. But new scientific breakthroughs—including ones made at Johnson & Johnson—have dramatically changed the prognosis of many of these patients.

“My company makes the medication that helped me fight multiple myeloma”

Paul Reidy, a Johnson & Johnson warehouse technician in Ireland, never imagined that an oncology therapy made at the facility where he works would help save his life.

Shockwave IVL: Inside the development of a game-changing technology to treat coronary and peripheral artery disease

Johnson & Johnson’s Patrick Stephens explains how innovative technology using ultrasonic acoustic pressure waves has made the treatment of certain types of cardiovascular disease easier for doctors and safer for patients.