Course Overview
Medical Supply Chain is the ultimate competitive advantage in the medical field as it connection to health and patient safety, a life of patient is intolerant to unavailability of products and services. Throughout this course learners will be introduced to the concept of supply chain management as a core science and practice
Course Objective
- Understand what constitutes any supply chain.
- Learn Five driving forces lead to increasing supply chain role
- Learn various supply chain strategies that leads to competitive advantage
- Acquire knowledge in the various tradeoffs and directions between Supply Chain functions
- The importance of external collaboration to reach supply chain excellence
- Gain better understanding to the role that warehouses in any supply chain strategy
- How inventory management planning and control can help reduce supply chain cost
- How to create alignments in your supply chain
Who Should Attend??
The increasing and demanding role for Supply Chain makes it essentials to all professions to get involved in Supply chain & logistics science to draw better understanding for their work environment supply chain’s. Supply Chain has extended nowadays to reach manufacturing and logistics functions, professionals in purchasing, warehousing
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to supply Chain
Definition of Medical supply chain management and activities
Development of the concept at Hospitals
Supply Chain strategies
Managing supply chain performance
Module 2: Supply Management
Forecasting Techniques
Forecasting Collaboration
Procurement Management
Module 3: Demand Management
Medical Transportation regulations
Warehousing Management
Traceability in the medical field, Medication fraud/Counterfeiting
Inventory planning and control
Training Methodology
- Presentation & Slides
- Audio Visual Aids
- Interactive Discussion
- Participatory Exercise
- Action Learning
- Class Activities
- Case Studies
- Workshops
- Simulation