Description
Book SynopsisThe book provides faculty, students, managers, and consultants with the guidance necessary to best engage the health care supply chain. The book s shows how to view the supply chain from a new perspective from a series of transactions to a focus of strategic planning.
Table of ContentsForeword vii
Lawton Robert Burns Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
The Authors xix
Introduction: A Burning Platform for Change 1
1. Framing and Repositioning Management of the Health Care Supply Chain 25
2. Managing Supply Risk and Cost Reduction 44
3. Internal Customer Relationship and Performance Management 70
4. Group Purchasing Organizations: Shaping the Health Materials Marketplace 100
5. Inventory and Distribution Process: The Search for Strategy 125
6. Organizational Design for Hospital and Health Care System Supply Chains 155
7. Levels of Development for the Health Care Supply Chain 175
8. Building Supply Chain Leadership and Resources for the Future 196
Study 1: The Value of Group Purchasing in the Health Care Supply Chain 213
Study 2: Clinician, Supplier, and Buyer Working as One to Improve Patient Outcomes 229
Study 3: Metropolitan Hospital System—A Study of a Hybrid Organizational Design 257
Study 4: Office of Inspector General Advisory Opinion No. 05–06, February 2005 263
Notes 277
Index 299
