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Healthcare supply chain resiliency

Jerry D. VanVactor
Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, 3 (2), 148-162 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.69554/KUGD8447

Abstract

This paper communicates an idea that supply chain management is an underlying imperative to organisational resiliency within a healthcare setting. Too often organisations seem to accept the obvious as proof and emotional response leads management to believe perceived regularity and commonality is routine. Instead of looking past gut feelings, leaders instead sometimes allow emotionally driven reactivity to drive decision making despite data and other information guiding organisational requirements in other directions than the way a leader feels. Healthcare supply chain practices and process inefficiencies have been routinely discussed through an industry-specific lens. But how often has supply chain management been examined as a catalyst for organisational resilience? Well studied (and well documented) is the idea that the status quo, among healthcare business operations, is no longer affordable or tenable. By design, then, this work challenges the status quo and expounds upon the impact of incorporating multifaceted, multidisciplinary feedback among a variety of stakeholders. Change is necessary and supply chain professionals are going to have to assert themselves, in an effort to be heard, concerning improvement amid accepted operational practices and processes. Contemporary healthcare organisations are entities within an interconnected, interoperable, complex global environment; contemporary supply chains need to be thought of less as chains and more as webs of interoperable processes amid matrixed departments, sections and sub-entities throughout a healthcare environment. There remains a pervasive need, in many instances, to re-examine existent theory related to supply chain management, operations planning and contingency mitigation.

Keywords: healthcare; supply chain management; interoperability; collaboration; disruptive events; resilience

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Author's Biography

Jerry D. VanVactor DHA, MBA is an experienced healthcare administrator and logistician. Throughout his career, he has served among roles related to both civilian and military healthcare, law enforcement, emergency management as well as facilitating collegiate-level courses in the US and abroad. The majority of his career has included an array of complex, multi-tiered, often matrixed, organisations wherein he was routinely involved in the development of healthcare, supply chain, continuity of operations and emergency management plans. Dr. VanVactor has developed and facilitated process improvement initiatives, written, implemented, and revised operational and strategic-level policy, and led among a variety of levels of managerial responsibility. He is a published Doctor of Health Administration, a Certified Business Continuity Professional, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a Demonstrated Master Logistician via the International Society of Logistics. He is married and has a son currently attending university in Texas.

Citation

VanVactor, Jerry D. (2020, December 1). Healthcare supply chain resiliency. In the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, Volume 3, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.69554/KUGD8447.

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