Opportunities of Supply Chain Management in Healthcare

The challenge of this chapter is to find evidence of whether supply chain management could be applied as a management technique in the healthcare sector–one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world. Primarily secondary sources were analyzed to define the scope of research, the models of reference, and examples from other industries to test their usefulness for the sector in question. This had to be interpreted in the light of a changing environment, initiated by two key drivers: globalization and the advancement of information and communication technologies, embedded in different and changing governance systems. Globalization has turned purchasing into global sourcing, and one major opportunity to get a competitive edge appears to be the Internet.

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