Supply Chain

Medical Supply Chain is the ultimate competitive advantage in the medical field as it connection to health and patient safety, a life of patient is intolerant to unavailability of products and services. Throughout this course learners will be introduced to the concept of supply chain management as a core science and practice

• Understand what constitutes any supply chain.
• Learn Five driving forces lead to increasing supply chain role
• Learn various supply chain strategies that leads to competitive advantage
• Acquire knowledge in the various tradeoffs and directions between Supply Chain functions
• The importance of external collaboration to reach supply chain excellence
• Gain better understanding to the role that warehouses in any supply chain strategy
• How inventory management planning and control can help reduce supply chain cost
• How to create alignments in your supply chain

The increasing and demanding role for Supply Chain makes it essentials to all professions to get involved in Supply chain & logistics science to draw better understanding for their work environment supply chain’s. Supply Chain has extended nowadays to reach manufacturing and logistics functions, professionals in purchasing, warehousing

Module 1: Introduction to supply Chain
􀁸 Definition of Medical supply chain management and activities
􀁸 Development of the concept at Hospitals
􀁸 Supply Chain strategies
􀁸 Managing supply chain performance

Module 2: Supply Management
􀁸 Forecasting Techniques
􀁸 Forecasting Collaboration
􀁸 Procurement Management

Module 3: Demand Management

􀁸 Medical Transportation regulations
􀁸 Warehousing Management
􀁸 Traceability in the medical field, Medication fraud/Counterfeiting
􀁸 Inventory planning and control

• Presentation & Slides
• Audio Visual Aids
• Interactive Discussion
• Participatory Exercise
• Action Learning
• Class Activities
• Case Studies
• Workshops
• Simulation