Centralised healthcare supply networks for efficient and sustainable drug management: an Italian case study

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

International Journal of Integrated Supply Management Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1504/ijism.2020.110744

D. Battini, I. Zennaro, Riccardo Aldrighetti, F. Sgarbossa

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This study aims at investigating the logistic performance of centralised healthcare supply chains and quantifies consequent benefits on the entire system sustainability. The focus is on drug inventory management and distribution inside a network of hospitals, re-designed and optimised by applying a hub and spoke perspective coupled with logistics outsourcing. An Italian HSC is analysed by a multi-method simulation modelling in order to understand the overall sustainability of the new integrated supply chain. The findings provide a comprehensive analysis of the total savings obtained: increased opportunity for healthcare professionals to focus on patient care, financial savings in terms of a reduction in annual public expenditure (–25.8%) and transportation emissions reduction inside cities (–32%). The paper suggests to managers and logisticians that more attention needs to be paid to measuring the actual sustainability of HSCs, suggesting new logistics improvements. The work is might be easily extendable to similar cases.

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高效和可持续药物管理的集中医疗保健供应网络:一个意大利案例研究

本研究旨在调查集中式医疗保健供应链的物流绩效，并量化整个系统可持续性的后续效益。重点是医院网络内的药品库存管理和分销，通过应用中心和辐条视角以及物流外包进行重新设计和优化。通过多方法仿真建模分析了意大利HSC，以了解新的集成供应链的整体可持续性。调查结果对所获得的总节省进行了全面分析:增加了医疗保健专业人员专注于患者护理的机会，减少了年度公共支出(-25.8%)和减少了城市内的交通排放(-32%)。本文建议管理者和物流人员更多地关注度量hsc的实际可持续性，提出新的物流改进建议。这项工作可以很容易地扩展到类似的情况。

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International Journal of Integrated Supply Management Business, Management and Accounting-Strategy and Management

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期刊介绍： IJISM''s thematic focus is on research that investigates and improves integration along supply chains. IJISM seeks high-impact scholarly analytical and empirical research in integrated supply management from academics and professionals. It is discipline-agnostic. Supply chain integration can be a complex and challenging imperative involving industry 4.0 ecosystems, alignment of supply markets and consumers, associated organisational changes, and the creation and management of integrative relationships in the supply chain. Substantive research that addresses such issues is solicited. Topics covered include: -Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing/service eco-systems including blockchains, robotics, wearables, sensors, AI, data mining, additive technologies, etc. in integrated supply chains -Global integrated supply chain design -Purchasing and supplier coordination and relationships -New modelling, optimisation and empirical methodologies in integrated supply chain design and management -Risk management and resilience -Sustainable operations and sharing and circular economies -Lean supply managenent -Quality management in supply chains -Transportation and logistics -Customer relationship, service response, demand management in supply chains -E-commerce supply management -Performance measurement in supply chains