Emerging Trends in Healthcare Supply Chain: An Approach to Agile Services
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Healthcare Supply Chain, Virtual Centralization, Vendor Managed InventoryAbstract
This paper focuses on the emerging trends for optimizing costs in healthcare supply chains, including virtual centralization of supply chains, utility utilization management practices, use of RFID technologies, use of analytics, streamlining of workflows, etc. The application of these Technologies can enable affordable health care solutions in developing countries.
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