Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Operations, Planning, and Control

CHAPTER 1

HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand why the management of operations and supply chains is important to the health care profession.
• Understand the role that purchasing, logistics, and vendor-managed inventory play in health care.
• Understand the meaning of efficient and effective operations and supply chain management.
• See how the management of operations and supply chains relates to health care.
• Understand the competitive dimensions of operations and supply chain strategy within health care.
• Know what measures are used to evaluate the operations and supply chain management function.
• Understand what the bullwhip effect is and how it applies to health care.

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