Supply Chain Management in Healthcare

Supply Chain Management
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Supply chain management plays a major role in streamlining the operations of any organization. In the health care sector, hospitals and other health care facilities benefit from operational efficiencies is the internal and external stakeholders do not have abrasive relations. Like other businesses, hospitals also have a flow in its services and products. In this case, medical supplies and equipment form the products while health care services are basically the services (Uzsoy, 2005).
The main players internally are the staffs and the management, while the external players are the suppliers, government officials, patients and the investors in the health care sector. Interaction between the staffs, the management with the procurement, finance and the research section of the hospital, determines how well the supply chain management strategies are working. The hospital has to interact with suppliers as they try to negotiate better quality medical suppliers at the best prices possible. Aspects of processing patients from the time they are booked in to the time there are released to go home and recuperate, the chain of even...