Question

The importance of warehousing and storage in health care delivery has been overrated by supply chain experts

How do you agree or disagree to the above statement?

Answer 1

“Simply stated, supply chain is the management of upstream and downstream relationships with suppliers and customers to deliver superior customer value at less cost to the supply chain as a whole,” James Spann, Practice Leader of Supply Chain & Logistics at Simpler Healthcare, said in a 2015 interview.

With supply chain expenses starting to exceed labor costs, hospital leaders are looking to supply chain optimization as a way to reduce their organization’s costs. In fact, recent research showed that hospitals could safely decrease supply costs by an average of 17.7 percent or $11 million annually per facility.

Hospital leaders agreed that improved supply chain management is key to lower costs.

About 62 percent of hospital leaders also stated that there is a clear economic return on investment for supply chain analytics.

Respondents agreed that supply chain analytics have the potential to reduce costs. But the tools can also help improve care quality.

So I personally disagree with the above statement