Increasing Integration Across the Supply Chain Through an Approach to Match Performance and Risk

Nenni, Maria Elena; Giustiniano, Luca

doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1009.1017

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“…Centralization of storage has been a topic of interest of logisticssince distribution networks began to be diffused, as a way to minimize the holding and penalty costs of inventory and shared supply chain risks [9].…”

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Pulling Drugs along the Supply Chain: Centralization of Hospitals' Inventory

Iannone

Lambiase

Miranda

et al. 2014

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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Due to the economic crisis and the predominance of drug expenditure in healthcare costs, the cooperation of groups of hospitals to negotiate with suppliers and centralize warehouses has been a recent trend in the pharmaceutical supply chain. This paper shows the economic convenience of centralizing the hospitals' inventory decisions (how much/when to order) based on the sharing of medical prescriptions of patients along the supply chain. The logistic network under investigation (TO BE model) integrates: a central pharmacy negotiating with suppliers, collecting hospital orders, storing and distributing materials; a number of hospitals feeding their medical units with materials; and a number of medical units taking care of their patients. The study is carried out comparing the cost performances of the proposed model with a non-cooperative one(in which hospitals manage their stocks individually) by means of simulation.

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Pulling Drugs along the Supply Chain: Centralization of Hospitals' Inventory

Iannone

Lambiase

Miranda

et al. 2014

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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“…Corporate process flows are often made of many figures at different stages, and the aggregation of several complex phases in few synthetic diagrams should be avoided. Indeed, a clear visibility of the entire stream of events is required in order to properly understand the linkages among activities, identify the strengths and weakness of a process and, eventually, facilitate interaction and integration with outsourcers [34,35] or with suppliers [36]. Additionally, process mapping and modelling can be considered one of the first steps for almost every improvement methodology that take place when analysing processes [37,38].…”

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Recipe Development Process Re-Design with ANSI/ISA-88 Batch Control Standard in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Minicis¹,

Giordano²,

Poli³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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Reducing time-to-market is one of the most challenging tasks that pharmaceutical companies deal with. In this sense, the recipe development process represents one of the most critical phases. Multi-site production companies require an efficient recipe development model, with a robust modular structure, which must be appropriately shared among local laboratories and plants. To this extent, the ANSI/ISA-88 batch manufacturing standard, rising in the context of process control and automation, is rapidly becoming widely used in pharmaceutical companies. This paper presents a step-by-step approach to assessing the compliance to the ANSI/ISA-88 standard along with a BPM-oriented methodology applicable to the redesign of any generic recipe development process. Redesigning a recipe development process is a complex activity and can mask several pitfalls and criticalities. Thus, along with the methodology, some general evidence and suggestions are provided based on the experience of a project carried out in a large multinational pharmaceutical company.

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“…This article aims at entangling the dynamics of the net benefits stemming from outsourcing, as a specific context of supply chain optimization (Nenni and Giustiniano, 2013), by starting from its general aspects and converging towards its specificity in healthcare. It covers two main problems: (a) the scope of outsourcing.…”

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Caring More by Doing Less? An Enquiry About the Impacts of Outsourcing on Patient Care

Brunetta¹,

Giustiniano²,

Marchegiani³

2014

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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This study seeks to understand the potential impact of outsourcing on healthcare processes. By referring to a wider scope of industries and sectors, as they have been the experimental fields of most of the studies on outsourcing, we highlight the pros and cons of the externalization of activities related to patient care. Our purpose is to show and contextualize the (yet) ambiguous effects of relying on external partners in delivering services related to the health of patients. We argue that the seek for efficiency might sometimes hinder the global outcome of care; further we state that given the peculiar nature of the healthcare, outsourcing needs to be used within a wider strategic analysis of the activities. This study starts with a review of the literature on outsourcing strategies applied to healthcare sector and it also proposes an analytical model for decision-making. The main conclusion is that healthcare organizations should set up proper mechanisms for the governance of the overall transactions related to outsourcing in order to extend the span of control over the external providers as long as the effectiveness and the efficacy of the general outcome is not compromised. Both private and public health providers could benefit from a more reliable model for deciding on the span of their activities that can be outsourced.

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Increasing Integration Across the Supply Chain Through an Approach to Match Performance and Risk

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Pulling Drugs along the Supply Chain: Centralization of Hospitals' Inventory

Pulling Drugs along the Supply Chain: Centralization of Hospitals' Inventory

Recipe Development Process Re-Design with ANSI/ISA-88 Batch Control Standard in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Caring More by Doing Less? An Enquiry About the Impacts of Outsourcing on Patient Care

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