Responsive Supply Chain Management in Healthcare Industry: An Overview

Abstract

Purpose: To be competitive in healthcare sector, responsive supply chain management is essential. The Primary objective of responsive supply chain management is to provide the high quality of patient care at affordable cost. In order to fulfil aforesaid purpose, it is necessary to understand the healthcare supply chain management. This paper provides the insight of responsive healthcare supply chain management in developing countries. Present paper focuses the healthcare supply chain management key issues, barriers and enablers. It also provides challenges faced by the healthcare supply chain management. Responsiveness in healthcare supply chain management is very difficult to achieve because it requires the total involvement of every player of the chain. This paper also discusses the expected performance outcomes after achieving the responsiveness in healthcare supply chain management

Design/Methodology/Approach: Exhausted literature has been reviewed in order to identify the issues, barriers, challenges of responsive healthcare supply chain management

Findings: It is found that researchers still not focus on achieving responsiveness in healthcare sector. Therefore, it is necessary to understand key issues and challenges faces faced by the healthcare sector so that the patient oriented responsive supply chain management can be achieved.

Paper Type: Theme based paper focuses on the responsive supply change management in the healthcare industry.