Study On Integration Mode And Methods Of Hospital Materials Management Based On Supply Chain

Hospital Materials are necessary conditions for carrying out medical treatment and other activities. Scientific management of materials is an important and effective means for improving capital efficiency and management level and obtaining the best economic results. With the new medical reform, the concepts of "supply chain integration", "zero inventory management" and "hospital logistics extension" etc. are introduced into pharmaceutical circulation field. Our hospital logistics and supply chain management is still in its exploratory stage, the subject of providing systematic, scientific and integrated management for procurement of hospital materials, optimizing management processes, reducing waste and overstock items and decreasing the procurement and management costs, is of theoretical and practical importance.The integrated management model of domestic hospital materials management has not been established and the attention focuses on the flow of materials within the hospital while the relationship between hospitals and suppliers is ignored. Related researches are mainly qualitative and the objective of cost management is chiefly about minimizing the inventory cost. The analysis, evaluation and control of hospital supply chain cost are rarely considered. For all the above reasons, this thesis mainly studies the following aspects:1. The integration mode of hospital materials management is established within the framework of supply chain management and the ideas and methods,the mode is elaborated from logistics process, functional management and implementation steps. The implementation,characters and key technologies of the integrated supply chain management are also analyzed in detail.2. The logistics process dimension of the integration mode of hospital materials management is studied, the purchasing methods,processes and related problems of traditional procurement management are analyzed, and JIT method and supply chain management are introduced into management of hospital materials. The integrated logistics process based on the theory of JIT and zero inventory is established by business process reengineering, the steps and key points of implementation are provided. 3. Functional management dimension of the integrated mode of hospital supply chain management is studied, and as an evaluation method,the idea of total cost of ownership is applied to the purchase cost of hospital materials management. The procurement cost items of hospital materials and the cost drivers are analyzed, a TCO model is established and the total cost of ownership of purchasing materials is calculated via the method of activity-based costing. The method is also applied in high-value consumable management in case hospital.4. Supply chain strategic alliance is a new mode of business cooperation in integrated supply chain management. The conclusion that transaction costs and the total cost of ownership between hospitals and suppliers can be reduced with the strategic alliance is validated on the base of evolutionary game theory. The evolution mechanisms of strategic alliances for hospital supply chain is analyzed via self-organization theory and the incentives for members of supply chain alliance are proposed to improve incentives on supply chain strategic alliance.