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9780787980399

Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain

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  • ISBN13:

    9780787980399

  • ISBN10:

    0787980390

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-02-01
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain provides students, faculty, managers, and researchers with a clear understanding of the health care supply chain and its role in health care strategy. It builds on fundamental concepts including sourcing of materials, forecasting demand, selecting and employing distribution models, and assessing risks, showing how they aid in the pursuit of supply management excellence in the health sector.

Author Biography

Larry R. Smeltzer was professor of supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. His primary research focus was supply strategies, and his work was published in such journals as Supply Chain Management Review, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Sloan Management Review. He also published descriptions of best practices through the Center of Advanced Purchasing Studies. Smeltzer received his Ph.D. in business from Northern Illinois University in 1980 and a master’s degree in organizational science from the University of Nebraska in 1971.

Eugene S. Schneller is professor of health management and policy at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He is director of the Health Sector Supply Chain Initiatives and codirector of the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium. Schneller is a frequent speaker on issues pertaining to group purchasing organizations and strategic management of the health care value chain. His publications appear in a variety of health management journals, including Hospital and Health Services Administration, Health Care Management Review, American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, and Frontiers of Health Services Management. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1973 and an honorary P.A. degree from Duke University Medical Center in 2004.

Table of Contents

Foreword (Lawton Robert Burns).
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
The Authors.
Introduction: A Burning Platform for Change.
1. Framing and Repositioning Management of the Health Care Supply Chain.
2. Managing Supply Risk and Cost Reduction.
3. Internal Customer Relationship and Performance Management.
4. Group Purchasing Organizations: Shaping the Health Materials Marketplace.
5. Inventory and Distribution Process: The Search for Strategy.
6. Organizational Design for Hospital and Health Care System Supply Chains.
7. Levels of Development for the Health Care Supply Chain.
8. Building Supply Chain Leadership and Resources for the Future.
Study 1: The Value of Group Purchasing in the Health Care Supply Chain.
Study 2: Clinician, Supplier, and Buyer Working as One to Improve Patient Outcomes.
Study 3: Metropolitan Hospital System—A Study of a Hybrid Organizational Design.
Study 4: Office of Inspector General Advisory Opinion No. 05–06, February 2005.
Notes.
Index.

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