Non-functional requirements for blockchain enabled medical supply chain

Given the importance of users in medical innovation, positive user participation can boost the cooperative innovation process within the medical supply chain. A stochastic differential model based on user feedback is proposed to study the relationship between user feedback and the medical supply chain. The stability and sensitivity of the medical supply chain is analysed through different parameters. The results show that the effect of patient feedback and suggestions from hospitals on the innovation level of medical services and medical products is positive, such that the impact of the innovation level of medical services on users and the effect of patient feedback are positively related to marginal profits and that cooperative innovation is beneficial for medical product and service innovation and the improvement of demand and profits.

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Smart System for the Optimization of Logistics Performance of the Pruning Biomass Value Chain

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app8071162 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 1162 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Girma Gebresenbet ◽

Techane Bosona ◽

Sven-Olof Olsson ◽

Daniel Garcia

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Value Chain ◽

Route Planning ◽

Control Unit ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Functional Requirements ◽

Logistics System ◽

Information Platform ◽

Biomass Supply ◽

Solid Biofuel

Agricultural pruning biomass is one of the important resources in Europe for generating renewable energy. However, utilization of the agricultural residues requires development of efficient and effective logistics systems. The objective of this study was to develop smart logistics system (SLS) appropriate for the management of the pruning biomass supply chain. The paper describes the users’ requirement of SLS, defines the technical and functional requirements and specifications for the development of SLS, and determines relevant information/data to be documented and managed by the SLS. This SLS has four major components: (a) Smart box, a sensor unit that enables measurement of data such as relative humidity, temperature, geographic positions; (b) On-board control unit, a unit that performs route planning and monitors the recordings by the smart box; (c) Information platform, a centralized platform for data storing and sharing, and management of pruning supply chain and traceability; and (d) Central control unit, an interface linking the Information platform and On-board control unit that serves as a point of administration for the whole pruning biomass supply chain from harvesting to end user. The SLS enables the improvement of performance of pruning biomass supply chain management and product traceability leading to a reduction of product loss, increased coordination of resources utilisation and quality of solid biofuel supply, increased pruning marketing opportunity, and reduction of logistics cost. This SLS was designed for pruning biomass, but could also be adapted for any type of biomass-to-energy initiatives.

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Blockchain in Medical Supply-Chain

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology ◽

10.48175/ijarsct-879 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 89-93

Author(s):

Kedar Kshatriya ◽

Rutuja Ajagekar ◽

Ishwarappa Kalbandi ◽

Madhur Jodhwani ◽

Sagar Gosavi

Keyword(s):

Quality Control ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Global Supply Chains ◽

Medical Supply ◽

Working Together

Problems in the medical supply chain are neither new nor uncommon: These products can travel through global supply chains in which documentation is often manual and paper-based, increasing at each handoff and border crossing. As a result, theft and quality control issues are common, and regulators and distributors struggle to locate substandard products that have entered the system. As both the technology and the industry’s processes for working together matures, blockchains could help us get better and faster at getting medicines and vaccines to where we have the most urgency. With more granular visibility, stakeholders could better zero in on clogs in supply chains, more quickly locate and remove expired, damaged, or fraudulent products.

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Route planning module as a part of Supply Chain Management system

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201260020135 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 60 (2) ◽

pp. 135-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Michal Košíček ◽

Radek Tesař ◽

František Dařena ◽

Roman Malo ◽

Arnošt Motyčka

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Route Planning ◽

Planning System ◽

Functional Requirements ◽

Chain Management ◽

Functional Specification ◽

Supply Chain Management System ◽

Basic Features ◽

The Right

Today, the demand for creating a systematic approach for managing sales, ordering, and logistics has increased. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is one of the responses to problems that have arose with the need for managing complex supply chains. Nowadays, most of the activities of Supply Chain Management is realized or supported with computing technologies. Route planning is an important part of Supply Chain Management related to both procurement and distribution. Route planning systems specify the sequences in which the selected transport vehicles should supply the demand points by requested quantities of goods at the right time. The paper is focused on the analysis of a route planning system which could be used as a part of Supply Chain Management information system or as a standalone application. It describes basic techniques and frameworks of transportation problems as well as important functional requirements, considering recent trends in the field of distribution planning. As a result, functional specification of basic features and other components of system are provided. The paper is a result of a joint initiative of the authors and a vendor of business information systems.

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Customer Prioritization for Medical Supply Chain During COVID-19 Pandemic

Computers Materials & Continua ◽

10.32604/cmc.2022.019337 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

pp. 59-72

Author(s):

Iram Mushtaq ◽

Muhammad Umer ◽

Muhammad Imran ◽

Inzamam Mashood Nasir ◽

Ghulam Muhammad ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Medical Supply

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Ontology as Information System Support for Supply Chain Management

Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-660-0.ch015 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 254-277

Author(s):

Charu Chandra

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Business Processes ◽

Reference Model ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Information Organization ◽

System Support ◽

Functional Requirements ◽

Industrial Case Study ◽

Organization Framework

Information is essential to integrating business processes. An information organization framework formalized as a reference model is proposed. It captures the specifics (e.g., dynamics and uncertainty) and functional requirements (e.g., information standardization and problem-orientation) of a supply chain (SC), assumed as a managerial, dynamic, complex, and open system. An information modeling formalism is presented that captures different aspects of SC information system support (ISS) as follows: (1) system taxonomy, tackling the problem of information standardization and unified presentation, (2) problem taxonomy, aiming to capture SC operational specifics, such as problem classification and modeling, (3) ontology, for representing problem specific knowledge in a computational language, and (4) ontology-driven information system, accumulating the above components in a collaborative environment, where SC members work on common problems. A SC-ISS reference model is introduced covering components of the above groupings. An industrial case study is presented.

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