Applying Lessons Learned from the Birmingham Free Clinic Dispensary to Inform Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management in Low-Resource Settings

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arielle M. Fisher ◽  
Harry Hochheiser ◽  
Gerald P. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Free Clinic ◽  
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Low Resource Settings ◽  
Low Resource

scholarly journals Leveraging Blockchain Technology to Enhance Supply Chain Management in Healthcare:

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin A. Clauson ◽  
Elizabeth A. Breeden ◽  
Cameron Davidson ◽  
Timothy K. Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Data Provenance ◽  
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Safety And Health

Background: Effective supply chain management is a challenge in every sector, but in healthcare there is added complexity and risk as a compromised supply chain in healthcare can directly impact patient safety and health outcomes. One potential solution for improving security, integrity, data provenance, and functionality of the health supply chain is blockchain technology. Objectives: Provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges associated with blockchain adoption and deployment for the health supply chain, with a focus on the pharmaceutical supply, medical device and supplies, Internet of Healthy Things (IoHT), and public health sectors. Methods: A narrative review was conducted of the academic literature, grey literature, and industry publications, in addition to identifying and characterizing select stakeholders engaged in exploring blockchain solutions for the health supply chain. Results: Critical challenges in protecting the integrity of the health supply chain appear well suited for adoption of blockchain technology. Use cases are emerging, including using blockchain to combat counterfeit medicines, securing medical devices, optimizing functionality of IoHT, and improving the public health supply chain. Despite these clear opportunities, most blockchain initiatives remain in proof-of-concept or pilot phase. Conclusion: Blockchain technology has the unrealized promise to help improve the health supply chain, but further study, evaluation and alignment with policy mechanisms is needed. Keywords: Blockchain, Distributed Ledger, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical, Supply chain  

IoT: A Revolutionizing Step for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management During and After Covid19

2021 ◽  
pp. 349-360
Author(s):  
Amrita Verma Pargaien ◽  
Tushar Kumar ◽  
Monika Maan ◽  
Suman Sharma ◽  
Himanshu Joshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management

Supply Chain Thinking in Healthcare: Lessons and Outlooks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Betcheva ◽  
Feryal Erhun ◽  
Houyuan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Managerial Implications

Problem definition: The lessons learned over decades of supply chain management provide an opportunity for stakeholders in complex systems, such as healthcare, to understand, evaluate, and improve their complicated and often inefficient ecosystems. Academic/practical relevance: The complexity in managing healthcare supply chains offers opportunities for important and impactful research avenues in key supply chain management areas such as coordination and integration (e.g., new care models), mass customization (e.g., the rise in precision medicine), and incentives (e.g., emerging reimbursement schemes), which might, in turn, provide insights relevant to traditional supply chains. We also put forward new perspectives for practice and possible research directions for the supply chain management community. Methodology: We provide a primer on supply chain thinking in healthcare, with a focus on healthcare delivery, by following a framework that is customer focused, systems based, and strategically orientated and that simultaneously considers clinical, operational, and financial dimensions. Our goal is to offer an understanding of how concepts and strategies in supply chain management can be applied and tailored to healthcare by considering the sector’s unique challenges and opportunities. Results: After identifying key healthcare stakeholders and their interactions, we discuss the main challenges facing healthcare services from a supply chain perspective and provide examples of how various supply chain strategies are being and can be used in healthcare. Managerial implications: By using supply chain thinking, healthcare organizations can decrease costs and improve the quality of care by uncovering, quantifying, and addressing inefficiencies.

Factors Inhibiting Green Supply Chain Management Initiatives in a South African Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

2019 ◽  
pp. 306-336
Author(s):  
Aveshin Reddy ◽  
Micheline Juliana Naude
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Study Approach

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and increased environmental awareness is forcing business leaders to adapt to the changing environment in functional areas such as the supply chain. This chapter focuses on the role of green supply chain management in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage, exploring the factors that affect green supply chain management initiatives at a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer in Durban. The study used a descriptive and exploratory case study approach in which in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 participants. Content analysis was used to analyze the collected data. The findings of the study reveal that the main factors affecting green supply chain management initiatives include high costs, lack of government support, and pressure to reduce selling prices. Since a limited number of studies have been conducted on this topic, the findings and recommendations of this work contribute to the existing body of research knowledge.

Retrospective on the launch of IJPDLM – lessons for the future of logistics and supply chain management research

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Remko van Hoek
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Research In Education

PurposeThis paper offers a retrospective on the launch and first volumes of this journal. It describes the history of a unique period in our discipline when founding fathers in the US and UK collaborated with industry and each other to create a new field.Design/methodology/approachThe authors interviewed founding editor Professor Martin Christopher and coeditor in Chief Professor Doug Lambert, conducted a bibliometric review of the first volumes of the journal and informed the analysis by approaches taken in other retrospectives published in the journal. The authors also feature historical artifacts from the journal.FindingsThe editorial focus during the early days of the journal demonstrate how the roots of the field are in cost modeling and technical work but quickly moved toward customer orientation and managerial focus. The editorial approach during the early days of the journal was on innovative research and publishing, scholarship engaged with industry, a focus on relevance and industry impact as well as leveraging research in education.Originality/valueThere have been retrospectives on the journals most recent volumes but what the authors aim to do is to reflect upon the launch and the first volumes of the journal. The authors expand and further detail the timeline of the development of the logistics field. In the process, the authors identify several historical roots for topics of greater focus in logistics and supply chain management in later years. The authors also find that many of the essential approaches and lessons learned in the period leading up to the launch and shortly after the launch of the journal do not only capture the early development of the discipline it also offers an approach and model for scholarship worthy of consideration still today. On top of that, several of the lessons learned in that period hold high relevance still today and they imply part of the path forward for the discipline and the journal, the authors develop questions for future research and research and editorial strategies.

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