Fee-for-Service Contracts in Pharmaceutical Distribution Supply Chains: Design, Analysis, and Management

The management of services creates a new and exciting development in business relationship management. It is a field which grows as organizations increasingly seek to specialize and also replace in-house service delivery with contractual relationships with suppliers. This chapter explores many of the attributes and challenges of planning, developing, and managing service contracts within complex supply chains.

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Social implications of bridging the gap through ‘caring for country’ in remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory, Australia

The Rangeland Journal ◽

10.1071/rj11037 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 63 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Julian Gorman ◽

Sivaram Vemuri

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Land Management ◽

Aboriginal People ◽

Management Practice ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Northern Territory ◽

Ecological Knowledge ◽

Fee For Service ◽

Aboriginal Communities ◽

Service Contracts

‘Caring for country’ is a term used to describe the complex spiritual affiliation that encompasses the rights and responsibilities that Aboriginal Australians have with their land. It includes their custodial responsibilities for keeping the land healthy and its species abundant. This ontology and associated practice of ‘caring for country’ continues across large sections of the Northern Territory of Australia through customary practice and through the Indigenous Ranger Program. This Program has been described as a ‘two toolbox approach’, which combines traditional ecological knowledge with more conventional land management practice, to manage landscapes for their natural and cultural values. Since 2007 there have been several policy initiatives which have changed the dynamics in Aboriginal communities which in turn has affected the structure of the Indigenous Ranger Program. In response to the dire social conditions facing Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth Government initiated the Northern Territory Emergency Response, which was a ‘top down’ approach with very little community engagement. At around the same time there was a shift in the way Indigenous Rangers jobs were funded. The unintended impact of this was a reduction in the number of Aboriginal people connected to the Ranger Program and potentially less input from culturally appropriate decision makers for land management. Another influencing policy change involved a shift in Commonwealth funding for land management from Natural Heritage Trust to Caring For Our Country funding. This new funding is more targeted and has changed the nature of the Ranger Program to being less ‘program based’ and more ‘outcome based’ by packaging many land management activities as ‘Fee for Service’ contracts. The transformation is taking place in a prescriptive manner. In this paper we advocate a more community-based approach which allows for greater community involvement in planning, decision making and governance.

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How to Build Successful Cloud Computing Relationships

International Journal on IT/Business Alignment and Governance ◽

10.4018/ijitbag.2018070101 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Klaus Egender ◽

Georg Hodosi ◽

Lazar Rusu

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Cost Efficiency ◽

Business Environment ◽

Research Strategy ◽

Influential Factors ◽

Fee For Service ◽

It Infrastructure ◽

Service Contracts ◽

It Managers ◽

A Company

A company has to operate with flexibility and cost-efficiency due to the continuously competitive business environment. Nowadays, cloud computing (CC) plays an essential part in flexibility and cost-efficiency of IT infrastructure. Companies using CC have to know how different types of contracts and their terms, modes of relationships, contract quality, and relationship management influence their CC activities. This article discusses how to build successful relationships in CC. The field of this study is CC from a service buyer perspective. The applied research strategy was survey research and the data was collected through interviews with IT managers in different medium-sized companies in Sweden. To identify and analyse the influencing factors of relationships in CC this research has used Transaction Cost Theory. The findings of this research are the identified influential factors to improve a cloud computing relationship like asset specificity, fee-for-service contracts, contract length, provider/buyer organisation sizes and the number of providers including guidelines for decision makers to strengthen this CC relationship.

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The Management of Services Contracts

Supply Chain Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2625-6.ch077 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1304-1315

Author(s):

Guy Callender

Keyword(s):

Service Delivery ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Relationship Management ◽

Business Relationship ◽

Service Contracts ◽

Contractual Relationships ◽

Exciting Development

The management of services creates a new and exciting development in business relationship management. It is a field which grows as organizations increasingly seek to specialize and also replace in-house service delivery with contractual relationships with suppliers. This chapter explores many of the attributes and challenges of planning, developing, and managing service contracts within complex supply chains.

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Development of a Conceptual Framework for Performance Measurement of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain within Hospital

International Journal of Applied Logistics ◽

10.4018/ijal.2014040103 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 32-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alexis Nsamzinshuti ◽

Alassane Ballé Ndiaye

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Performance Measurement ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Health Care Quality ◽

Care Quality ◽

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain ◽

Pharmaceutical Distribution ◽

Regulatory Bodies ◽

Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

In recent years, the European hospital sector suffers the brunt of the economic crisis. This sector is now faced with a paradox, which is to reduce costs, related to the decline in government subsidies and an increase in the quality of care required by the regulatory bodies. This paradox can be resolved through the optimization of the hospital supply chain. Despite hospital supply chains having a great impact on hospital budgets, still opportunities for optimization exist and improve the health care quality. This article aims to propose a conceptual framework that allows hospitals to evaluate the performance of their pharmaceutical supply chains in order to identify bottlenecks and cost reduction opportunities. After reviewing the literature regarding to the hospital supply chain and the performance measurement, the authors focused on the study of hospital processes of pharmaceutical distribution within the hospital. The findings of this study propose a conceptual framework that will allow hospital to measure the performance of their pharmaceutical supply chain.

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Development of a Conceptual Framework for Performance Measurement of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain within Hospital

Decision Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1837-2.ch011 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 228-248

Author(s):

Alexis Nsamzinshuti ◽

Alassane Ballé Ndiaye

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Performance Measurement ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Health Care Quality ◽

Care Quality ◽

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain ◽

Pharmaceutical Distribution ◽

Regulatory Bodies ◽

Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

In recent years, the European hospital sector suffers the brunt of the economic crisis. This sector is now faced with a paradox, which is to reduce costs, related to the decline in government subsidies and an increase in the quality of care required by the regulatory bodies. This paradox can be resolved through the optimization of the hospital supply chain. Despite hospital supply chains having a great impact on hospital budgets, still opportunities for optimization exist and improve the health care quality. This article aims to propose a conceptual framework that allows hospitals to evaluate the performance of their pharmaceutical supply chains in order to identify bottlenecks and cost reduction opportunities. After reviewing the literature regarding to the hospital supply chain and the performance measurement, the authors focused on the study of hospital processes of pharmaceutical distribution within the hospital. The findings of this study propose a conceptual framework that will allow hospital to measure the performance of their pharmaceutical supply chain.

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