Question

Describe several elements of the supply chain systems. Is it your conviction that the elements you chose do or do not improve efficiencies within the health care environment? Please state why or why not and support your response with two references.

Answer 1

Elements of supply chain management

1. Supply chain is a sequence of processes that must be completed to produce and distribute commodity.
2. A strong supply chain is crucial to that goal, and so is managing it effectively to produce the best result
3. It is very much vital to health care business

They are 4 elements in supply chain management in relate to health care business.

1. Integration:
   1. This is consider as brain and heart of the supply chain
   2. Integration means coordinating communication between the rest of the supply chain to produce effective and timely results.
   3. Exploring new advanced technologies in health care
   4. Exploring new technologies in various diagnostic tests
   5. Fostering communications among interdepartmental segments
   6. It is responsible for making sure that things are happening on time and on the budget without sacrificing quality.
   7. Health care industry integration is very important to maintain cost effectiveness and quality of care.
2. Operations:
   1. This plays a liaison role in health care industry.
   2. It coordinates day to day operations of the health care.
   3. It plans the company’s output to make sure everything is running well
   4. Operations will keep an eye on the inventory management
   5. It links the chain of the user, production department, and purchase department.
   6. It will act as a forecasting predictor for the supplies required for the user side in the health care industry
   7. To find the effectiveness of the products.
   8. In health care industry, operation plays a very important role to maintain effectiveness of the products, marketing approaches
3. Purchasing:
   1. This play a role in buying the good health care products.
   2. The health care products, which are needed to generate
   3. Purchasing creates relationships with the suppliers
   4. It also identifies the qualities and quantity of the products which are required
   5. It plays a main role in health care financial budget
   6. Maintains cost effectiveness and high quality standards.
4. Distribution:
   1. Responsibility of distribution is coordination
   2. It plays a main role in distributing the products based on the supplier side and also on the user side