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Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Management: Outsourcing Public Health Logistics in Developing Countries

This paper examines the potential opportunity for public sector health systems to engage third party service providers to support the logistics functions—with an emphasis on distribution, warehousing, and inventory management. It provides stakeholders in supply chain management, with a resource that describes outsourcing and how it could be used in public health supply chains, when to consider outsourcing, the process of deciding whether outsourcing is a viable option in a particular context, and how to begin the outsourcing process.

Capacity building, Distribution, Inventory Management, Storage

  • Sub-categories HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Reproductive health, TB
  • Commodities Medicines, Reproductive health products
  • Latest update 2010
  • Version None
  • Developed by USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
  • When to use This paper examines the potential opportunity for public sector health systems to engage third party service providers to support the logistics functions—with an emphasis on distribution, warehousing, and inventory management. It provides stakeholders in supply chain management, with a resource that describes outsourcing and how it could be used in public health supply chains, when to consider outsourcing, the process of deciding whether outsourcing is a viable option in a particular context, and how to begin the outsourcing process.
  • Languages English
  • Level of use Central, District, Facility, Regional
  • Form PDF document, 620 KB
  • Amount of training / TA required None
  • Inputs & outputs None
  • Cost Free
  • Advantages Provides two detailed case studies of outsourcing from Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Limitations None
  • Availability PDF Only
  • Remarks
  • Downloadable files EmerTrenSCM_Outs.pdf
    EmerTrenSCM_Outs.pdf
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  • Submission date 2010-10-20 02:00:00