With the growing complexity of healthcare, care givers are increasingly outsourcing tasks to specialized suppliers. Patients are treated in supply chains or supply networks that combine interventions into processes and link them into clinical pathways. There are, however, situations where a process approach is difficult to use. Patient cases are variable and work cannot always proceed according to schedule or plan. New developments in a patient’s condition, unexpected diagnostic findings or surprising reactions to medication may call for sudden changes in planned processes with ripple effects to a supply chain.