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Hospital Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain 1 I Care Healthcare Supply
Chain Management By Jeffrey S. Moser Operations Management ...
... phases of the logistics and supply chain management, which will ... on the implementation
of other management processing and ... the total number of hospital beds are ...
... your hospitals supply chain management processes would be to implement a Hybrid
Inventory Control strategy. Our company believes that a hospital has unique ...
... management an efficient and successful supply chain management system, there ... of metrics
to monitor the supply chain so that ... setting, such as a hospital, it is ...
... Daily delivery is used for hospital inventories where storage facilities are ... JIT
concept is relevant in the supply chain management in responding to the pushes ...
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Supply Chain 1
I Care Healthcare Supply Chain Management
By
Jeffrey S. Moser
Operations Management MGT 554
Professor Stephen Wernick
October 12, 2004
Supply Chain 2
Supply Chain Management plays a vital role in our hospitals today. With the growing cost of healthcare and new technologies, it is vital for hospitals to run as efficiently as possible and without jeopardizing care. To the materials manager and to the financial minds of a hospital the area of supply chain is a tedius task at best, the kind of planning, strategizing and measuring that seldom goes recognized and rewarded. The work involved with inventory control fits tightly within that description.
In many hospitals today, it is easy for inventory control to go astray and become uncontrolable. This is the case with I Care Healthcare System. Too many people with too much access to too much product procurement are controlling
supplies and equipment coming into the facility without any regulation or little oversight. While the blame for over-ordering is frequently pointed at nursing staff, famous for squirreling away unseen, already paid-for stocks of goods, they are not the only offenders. More accurately, when it comes to inventory, it's the system that fails a hospital, not its people, over what is essentially an asset management issue.
Currently I Care Healthcare System uses a mainframe that was develped internally with an outdated materials management system that allows you to generate purchase orders, but is lacking in running reports that track the usage. This is not uncommon in the hospital materials management environment. The process I mainly manual where requisitions are generated from the department, sent to purchasing, a purchase order is then generated and is faxed or...
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