Method To develop the National Drug Supply Chain Management Strategy (SCM) Strategy, BinFar formed a strategy team made up of key SCM partners and staff. A drug SCM situation analysis was undertaken in 14 units within the MOH, exploring SCM issues and concerns, including staff development. Based on the results of the situation analysis, a stakeholders meeting was held to determine the core subs...

In the 21 century, competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demands in global market, agile capability and flexibility have been the new requirements in today’s Supply Chain Management (SCM). Some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve ...

Supply chain management has become more important as an academic topic due to trends in globalization leading to massive reallocation of production related advantages. Because of the massive amount of data that is generated in the global economy, new tools need to be developed in order to manage and analyze the data, as well as to monitor organizational performance worldwide. This paper propose...

Background Indonesia comprises 17,000 islands and 495 districts. Decentralization mandates district health services, but ensuring proper supply chain management (SCM) capacity at the district level is a challenge. The ministry of health developed and implemented SCM training modules and guidelines; however, weaknesses in the system remain, particularly related to human resources. The ministry i...

One of the critical factors for a successful cooperative relationship in a supply chain partnership is trust. Many real-world applications, such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), can be modeled using multi-agent systems. One shortcoming of current SCM models is that their trust models are ad hoc and do not have a strong theoretical basis. As a result, they are unable to model subtleties in agen...

W e illuminate the myriad of opportunities for research where supply chain management (SCM) intersects with data science, predictive analytics, and big data, collectively referred to as DPB. We show that these terms are not only becoming popular but are also relevant to supply chain research and education. Data science requires both domain knowledge and a broad set of quantitative skills, but t...

Recently, most healthcare organizations focus their attention on reducing the cost of their supply chain management (SCM) by improving the decision making pertaining processes' efficiencies. The availability of products through healthcare SCM is often a matter of life or death to the patient; therefore, trial and error approaches are not an option in this environment. Simulation and modeling (S...

The concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM) embraced the concern for environmental degradation and social responsibility in business management. This inclusiveness of ideas to SCM is being deliberated by the researchers as Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM). The research paper employs integrative literature review approach to review, assess critically, and synthesize representative lit...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a new concept involving the integration of all the value-creating elements in the supply, manufacturing, and distribution processes, from raw material extraction, through the transformation process, to end user consumption. The purpose of this paper is to explore the SCM activities carried out by manufacturing organisations in New Zealand. A postal survey was ca...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has raised attention in recent years. Successful SCM depends on how well an organization performs internal and external communications. The use of information technology (IT) is considered a prerequisite for effective control of today’s complex supply chains. IT facilitates the creation of value. However, the creation of value is defined by different groups of stak...