This document contains notes from the keynote presentation “Designing and Operating Better Supply Chains for Global Health” given by Dr. Prashant Yadav, Director-Healthcare Research, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (USA). It includes information on the drivers of poor availability in the public sector supply chain for... Read more
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Technical area: Forecasting and supply planning, Private sector
Document type: Tools and guides
Language: English
UPS’s 2012 Pain in the (Supply) Chain survey reveals the latest data on healthcare executives’ views on the state of the healthcare industry. The survey also explores global healthcare decision makers’ top business and supply chain concerns and probes priorities and plans around upcoming supply chain investments over the next... Read more
Author: UPS
Technical area: Private sector
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Language: English
This report presents findings from the 2009 Fourteenth Annual Third-Party Logistics Study, conducted in mid-2009. This study examines the state of the global market for 3PL services and explores key issues affecting the industry: economic volatility, the IT capability gap and the challenges of supply chain orchestration.... Read more
Author: C. John Langley, Jr., Ph.D., Capgemini U.S. LLC
Technical area: Private sector
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Language: English
When it comes to expanding medical supply chains in the developing world, there is much to be learned from Coca-Cola’s global-scale production and distribution model, and there is much to be borrowed. There is also much that is impossible to replicate.... Read more
Author: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Technical area: Private sector
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Language: English
The deployment of mobile automated data capture technologies within the framework of GS1 data standards can enable a mature and universal global healthcare delivery network, substantially reducing one of the largest operational costs in the healthcare industry today — supply chain management.... Read more
Author: Motorola
Technical area: Private sector
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This brief explores ways that public health supply chain managers can adapt commercial sector performance incentives to improve supply chain performance.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Private sector
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This project Optimize document provides supply chain managers in low- and middle-income countries with an overview of the potential benefits of outsourcing components of their vaccine logistics systems to the private sector. It also provides practical advice on determining whether outsourcing is a viable option.... Read more
Author: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), World Health Organization (WHO)
Technical area: Private sector
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Language: English
This paper examines the potential opportunity for public sector health systems to engage third party service providers (outsourcing) to support the logistics functions—with an emphasis on distribution, warehousing, and inventory management.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Private sector
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Language: English
This report describes how supply chains have become fragmented and brittle due to outsourcing to partners and suppliers that are geographically distant, and in part to an increased focus on sole sourcing, whether to capitalize on price advantages or to cultivate relationships in the extended enterprise.... Read more
Author: Booz Allen Hamilton, Dermot Shorten, Jean Lewis, Joseph Martha, Salman Syed
Technical area: Private sector
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Language: English
