How Logistics Can Service Healthcare
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Supply Chain Forum An International Journal Vol. 5 N°2 2004 www.supplychain-forum.com Management is on the verge of a major breakthrough in understanding how industrial company success depends on the interaction between the flow of information, materials, money, manpower, and capital equipment (Forrester, 1958). Forrester’s words seem to have taken four decades to materialize. The long-awaited integration is only now coming about, thanks to the spectacular developments in information technology. Over the past few years, Supply Chain Management has imposed itself as a management concept that takes a holistic view of value creation for end users or consumers (Christopher, 1998).
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