Hospital material management has been identified as one key cost containment lever to
cope with steadily increasing healthcare costs in industrialized countries. The purpose of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to review the extant academic literature
on on-demand food delivery (ODFD) services, ie the delivery of freshly prepared meals from …

In this paper, construction material supplier and construction site performance are assessed
according to the supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model. Current applicable …

Manufacturing and maintenance processes significantly benefit from effective and integrated
Supply Chain Management (SCM). Recently, hospitals start to recognize the importance of …

The management of inventories and distribution networks of medical supplies are among
the most important issues in the healthcare world. Indeed, medicine shortage cannot only …

Supply chain management (SCM) has been stressed as a remedy to many of the underlying
issues in the construction industry. However, the positive examples where SCM has been …

Purpose A balanced scorecard (BSC) is an applied tool for implementing strategic
management in various organizations. Implementing strategic management using the BSC …

Due to the changes in the nature of business and competition from company versus
company to supply chain versus supply chain, the importance of improving the entire supply …

The paper discusses the characteristics of healthcare supply chains, and puts particular
emphasis on the implementation of VMI/CMI in this sector specific context. By the means of …

This paper seeks to develop a generic framework for the hospital supply chain in order to
describe this complex environment through a holistic and inductive approach. Developed …