Improving Health Outcomes through Sustainable Health Workforce Excellence in Supply Chain Management White Paper, 3rd Edition

This paper describes the need for sustainable, reliable, well performing health supply chains in order to assure access to health supplies, and thus for positive health outcomes. Limitations on supply chain performance stem, inpart, from the lack of a qualified supply chain workforce within health systems, which in turn is... Read more

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Initiating In-Country Pre-Service Training in Supply Chain Management for Health Commodities: Process Guide and Sample Curriculum Outline

This process guide and sample curriculum outline offers programs, governments, and projects interested in implementing pre-service training (PST) for supply chain management of health commodities a general understanding of the process, stages, steps, and activities required for initiating a successful PST training program.... Read more

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Human Resource Capacity in Public Health Supply Chain Management: Assessment Guide

The overall purpose of this Human Resource Capacity in Public Health Supply Chain Management Assessment Guide is to document the state of a country’s human resource capacity in supply chain management and professionalization efforts in public health supply chains and identify professionalization efforts spearheaded by the Ministry of Health and... Read more

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Governing Tangible Risk: The SCOR Model

In this chapter from X-SCM: The New Science of X-treme Supply Chain Management, Taylor Wilkerson examines how a structured approach is needed to identify and manage potential risks throughout today’s extended global supply chains. Managing supply chain risk demands a tool that focuses resources where they are most effective.... Read more

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Zimbabwe’s Logistics Sub Unit enables sustainable scale-up of HIV/AIDS programs

This June 2011 brief tells the story of how, with USAID and SCMS support, Zimbabwe was able to successfully scale up their procurement and distribution of HIV/AIDS commodies and simultaneously make significant improvements to their supply chain management capacity through the establishment of a Logistics Sub Unit (LSU).... Read more

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