Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal: Volume 6 Issue 1
Table of contents - Special Issue: Sourcing and outsourcing decisions for a sustainable healthcare supply chain: opportunities, challenges and leading practices
Guest Editors: Daria Battini, Elkafi Hassini, Vassiliki Manthou
Vendor managed inventory (VMI): evidences from lean deployment in healthcare
Cristina Machado Guimarães, José Crespo de Carvalho, Ana MaiaUnderstanding how VMI benefits serve lean purposes in healthcare and why its outcomes can be difficult to achieve in healthcare settings is the main purpose of this study.
Vendor managed inventory in the blood supply chain in Germany: Evidence from multiple case studies
Sebastian H.W. StangerThe purpose of this paper is to develop a generic framework for the assessment of VMI implementation. The framework is used for the analysis of multiple case studies in German…
Drug inventory management and distribution: outsourcing logistics to third‐party providers
Anna Azzi, Alessandro Persona, Fabio Sgarbossa, Mauro BoninThe purpose of the present research is to explore the current situation and future expectations on whether to self‐manage or outsource logistics operations in centralized…
Medical waste management: a case study in a small size hospital of central Italy
Giancarlo Giacchetta, Barbara MarchettiA measurement campaign was carried out for assessing the waste flow in a pilot hospital of a region in central Italy, with the purpose of having a complete overview of the waste…
Increasing public healthcare network performance by de‐hospitalization: A patient pathway perspective
Gianfranco Ignone, Giorgio Mossa, Giovanni Mummolo, Rosa Pilolli, Luigi RanieriThe aim of this paper is to support public decision‐makers in a local healthcare agency (LHA) in evaluating the effects of different de‐hospitalization strategies and the…