October 5, 2023- National Health Care Supply Chain Week is recognized this year from October 1-7, 2023. This week, Repertoire Magazine highlights a feel-good story from Henry Schein team member Toni Leck. Leck, Receiving Supervisor at Henry Schein’s Denver, Pennsylvania distribution center, assisted with finding a supplier’s missing wedding ring in an order shipment.
“I thought there was a good chance that the ring may have slipped off when I was packaging the boxes. When I came back to work on the following Monday, I reached out to Henry Schein to see if we could figure out where last week’s shipment was going to end up and if someone on the other end could check through the boxes to search for a ring,” said Michael Schoendorf, who lost his ring in a shipment to Henry Schein on Friday evening.
“I really wanted to find this ring. On the second day of searching, there were two pieces of paper left in the final box,” said Leck. “I looked down and there’s a silver ring in this box. I did a dance. I was singing on the dock. We all threw a party. We were all jumping around because everybody knew I was trying to find this ring.”
All parties involved were elated that the story had a happy ending.
“Our marriage was so fresh and new at the time and more meaning than just a ring. My wife had a good feeling about finding the ring and reassured me that it’d turn up,” said Schoendorf. “It was an awesome sense of team comradery. Toni and everyone on the Henry Schein team came together to help me and make sure that all the boxes got checked as well as they could be, and I really appreciate that.”