全球智库信息集成服务系统

Efficiencies Can Be Attained Throughout the Supply Process

• Restricting materiel used by deployed units to clinically necessary items and reducing the variety of substitutable items could achieve supply-chain efficiencies.
• Pooling usage projections across all end users might allow streamlined orders, maintain a fairly smooth aggregate rate of demand, and compel vendors to deliver materiel faster under contracted standards.
• Direct delivery of material rather than through an intermediate warehouse eliminates processing and shipping costs. Decreasing such operations in Southwest Asia alone could save $6 million to $11 million annually.
• The greatest barrier to further consolidating medical item distribution is the lack of a warehouse management software system that downloads item information based on commercial stock numbers.