Challenges and Opportunities of Health Care Supply Chain Management in the United States |
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| Authors: | Dean Elmuti Grace Khoury Omar Omran Ahmed S Abou-Zaid |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Business and Applied Sciences , Eastern Illinois University , Charleston , Illinois dselmuti@eiu.edu;3. College of Commerce and Economics , Birzeit University , Birzeit , Palestine;4. Department of Economics , Eastern Illinois University , Charleston , Illinois |
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| Abstract: | This article explores current supply chain management challenges and initiatives and identifies problems that affect supply chain management success in the U.S. health-care industry. In addition, it investigates the impact of health care supply chain management (SCM) initiatives on the overall organizational effectiveness. The attitudinal results, as well as the performance results presented in this study support the claim of health care proponents that the SCM allows organizations to reduce cost, improve quality, and reduce cycle time, and leads to high performance. |
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| Keywords: | health care supply chain challenges performances effectiveness |
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