Research Catalog

Title

Strategic management of the health care supply chain / Eugene S. Schneller, Larry R. Smeltzer ; foreword by Lawton Robert Burns.

Author

Schneller, Eugene Stewart.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Smeltzer, Larry R.

Description

xix, 305 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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." "Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain is filled with in-depth interviews with leaders in exemplary organizations and presents best practices in progressive supply chain management from many exemplary institutions."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Health facilities > Business management
• Business logistics
• Materials Management, Hospital > organization & administration
• Purchasing, Hospital > organization & administration
• United States
• Efficiency, Organizational
• Health services administration
• Strategic planning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-298) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0787980390 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005021213
• 9780787980399

OCLC

• ocm61167756
• SCSB-5230915

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries