Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Vietnam, 2019

Duangpun Kritchanchai
Mahidol University

Daranee Senarak
Mahidol University

SPD, in term of supply chain management, is abbreviated from Supply, Processing and Distribution management. This model is first published about its application in healthcare segment. It is a new model which incorporates processes of supply-procurement, inventory management and material processing and distribution to unify hospital logistics management to enhance hospital supply chain management effectiveness. This adaptable model is successfully adopted and continuously developed by Japanese and Chinese Hospitals as the internal-hospital department function with suggestion about the adjusted application for more flexibility and corresponding to actual hospitals situations. In Thailand, SPD model is usually used in network of private hospitals and each hospital outsources 3PL to handle these activities in its department of inventory management. Though 3PLs are able to perform logistics functions well with their expertise, in practice, they still face some inevitable problems because each-site has to separately perform logistics activities by itself. With its competitive advantage, flexibility and some internal-hospital practice constraints, this paper aims to design potential external-hospital SPD models managed by 3PLs for the private hospital network in Thailand. The results, nine potential models are constructed which could be the 3PLs’ improvement opportunities in appropriate adoption for their contexts.

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