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Sourcing and Global Distribution of Medical Supplies

Adam C. ResnickWilliam Welser (IV)Keenan D. Yoho

出版	RAND Corporation, 2014
ISBN	08330851829780833085184
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4GV7oAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Department of Defense (DoD) provides medical care to service members all over the world and must ensure that health care providers have the proper quantity and quality of medical materiel. RAND investigated opportunities to gain efficiencies in the global military medical logistics enterprise without sacrificing capability, notably through minimizing intermediate materiel handling, seeking the greatest value from commercial freight, and streamlining warehouse operations. RAND suggests DoD take steps to optimize its global medical logistic enterprise by maximizing direct delivery to end users, exercising control over the materiel catalog, managing inventory held overseas to support surges and bridge supply chain interruptions, and managing inventory and contracts to maximize supplier responsiveness. To minimize intermediate materiel handling, the study recommended closing the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center in Southwest Asia as a Central Command distribution point because its efforts are duplicative of those in Europe. Combined with renegotiating European shipping contracts, closing this distribution point could save $10-$20 million annually. The study recommends against consolidating distribution of medical items with other items handled by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The greatest barrier to consolidation is the inability of the DLA warehouse management information technology system to download item information using the commercial stock numbers, which identify the bulk of military medical items. Thousands of new medical items enter military use each year, and it is infeasible for the organizations tasked with assigning military-specific stock numbers to do so for these items.