Annabel Seah

Introduction
Trends
Significance

Teo Shu Ling

as
HR Manager

Annabel Seah
as
Performance
Appraiser

Nurul
Sahhidah
as
Ean Xiangs
Boss

Tan Vanessa
as
Safety and
Health
Auditor

What is supply chain in

hospitals?

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Optimise patient
satisfaction

With the aid of

technology

Achieve a
competitive edge

Smooth running of
hospital

IMPORTANCE?

Contribute to efficiency of hospital

Ensure inventory levels kept up to date

Provide quality healthcare service to
patients
Especially important in the healthcare

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Trends?

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Increasing Costs

25-30% of
hospital
expense

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Deman
d

Order

Supplier

Logistic
s

Invento
ry

Articles
What
What hospitals
RFIDhospitals
Technology

Collaborations

Improve
can
do within
can do

Group Purchase
Inventory
Orders
their
scope
beyond
Management
Point-of-Use their scope
Hybrid Policy

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Transformation
Model costs
rising
Knowledge
with
Management
improved
SCM

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Conclusion

What Hospitals
Can Do
Within
their scope
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RFID Technology
Inventory
Management
Point-of-Use Hybrid
Policy

RFID Technology
Benefits
Limitatio
ns

How

Adoptin
g RFID

Inventory Management
Policy
(Internal)
Policies

Description

Reorders made
based on
demand during
lead time period

Similar to Policy
1 but considers
criticality of
drug

Considers
whether to
replenish based
on criticality,
expiration
window and
availability

Similar to Policy
3 but considers
inventory level
in pharmacy

Results

- Better than Policy 1 and 2

- Considers criticality, expiration
window and availability in
deciding whether to replenish
stock

Policy 4 better than 3 as it

considers inventory level of
main pharmacy
Led to few local stockouts but
greater global stockouts

Meet DOSIS, the ADM!

Benefits
Limitatio
ns

How

ADM

What Hospitals
Can Do
Beyond
their scope
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Collaboration
Group Purchase
Orders

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Collaboration

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Background:

Healthcare supply chains are more complex than other

industries
Physicians who procure medication have limited OM
knowledge

Aim of Paper:

Better understand nature of collaborations for inventory

management
Implement effective SCM practices

Paper does a review of:

Virtual hospital pharmacy

Outsource non-critical medical supplies
Hybrid stockless method
VMI

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Limitations

Improvements

Impact of government
regulatory agencies and
GPOs is not clear

Accelerate adoption of
strategies like VMI

Highly fragmented
pharmaceutical hospital
supply chain

Future research should

Improvements

explore how supply chain

Accelerate adoption of
strategies like VMI

leaders can emerge

Future research should

explore how supply
chain leaders can
emerge
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Group Purchase
Orders

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Background:
increasing healthcare expenditures
Aim of paper:
minimise shared supply chain cost, improve efficiency
Approach:
Form GPOs to order in bulk
Determine best number, size, composition of GPOs
Limitation:
Hospitals disagree on coordination costs and
proportions of benefit received
no solution to problems such as determining the
optimal size of purchasing groups under the various
different circumstances

Improveme
nt

Choice of changing size of GPOs when

needed
Ensure transparency of financial costs
consolidating purchasing cooperation
without having mandatory compliance
from hospitals
recommended strategy would be to
adopt the best hospital structure
among the GPO that minimises total
cost to enhance SCM

Consider elasticity

Future
Research

Optimal size of GPOs

How to manage
rising costs with
improved SCM
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Transformative Model

Foundation
Optimisation
Transformation

Limitations
Suggestion
s

Issue

Transformati
ve Model

Enhancing hospital-supplier knowledge

management

Suppliers

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Hospitals

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Limitations
Suggestion
s

Issue
Improve
supplierhospital
relationsh
ip

In Summary
Study a successful organization and identify the human
resource management practices that contribute to its
success.

Annabel
Structured
Recruitment
Process
Equal
Opportunitie
s

Selective
Employees
Multi-faceted
Training

Good Pay
Decisions &
Benefits
Comprehensi
ve
Compensatio
n

Performance
Appraisal &
Feedback

Health &
Safety
Management
Complying
with Labour
Laws