The Drug Supply Chain at the Public Hospital in Morocco: A Literature Review

Abstract

Nowadays, hospital actors are more and more interested in hospital logistics. Its main mission is to provide the various actors in the hospital with the material means to operate in order to have a more flexible and resilient entity. The logistics function plays an indispensable role in the care process and brings great added value. –To this end, this article aims to understand in a theoretical framework the concept of the hospital supply chain, and thereafter, Our subject is articulated around a literature review based mainly on the work that we carried out during twenty years on hospital logistics processes in European and American contexts. Nevertheless we were able to find an interesting number of books, articles and finally we were able to select more than 30 articles or book chapters. –Our observations will be complemented by other studies that support our findings. Thus, first, we retrace the evolution of the concept of logistics in the health sector. Secondly, we present insights into logistics performance in the hospital environment, emphasizing towards the end the four dimensions of hospital logistics originating from the industrial sector.