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- ItemA concept demonstrator for self-organising demand-driven inventory management in pharmaceutical supply chains(South African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018) Du Plessis, Marno; Van Vuuren, Jan H.; Van Eeden, JoubertENGLISH ABSTRACT: Perennial stock-outs of essential medicines are commonplace in the pharmaceutical supply chains of developing countries. Stock-outs are mainly attributed to a general lack of collective information sharing in pharmaceutical supply chains. In this paper, a computerised agent-based simulation model concept demonstrator is proposed and demonstrated hypothetically as part of a larger drive to establish the value of leveraging information sharing in pharmaceutical supply chains with a view to enhance decision-making. The objective of this paper is to outline the prerequisite research inputs, design requirements and hypothetical implementation of the aforementioned demonstrator. The work reported on in this paper remains a work in progress.
- ItemIncorporating product categorization to improve the performance of SA’s public healthcare supply chain : a research agenda(South African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018) Mapowo, Newton; Bam, Louzanne; De Kock, Imke H.; Van Eeeden, JoubertIn an influential publication from the late 1990’s, Marshall Fisher argued that many of the challenges in supply chains could be traced back to a lack of alignment between the type of product and the type of supply chain. Subsequently, the idea of tailoring supply chain management practices and policies to the characteristics of the products being supplied has received significant research attention, and various researchers have worked on modifying the premise as well as on its application to diverse sectors, with promising findings. The South African National Department of Health is in the process of rolling out the Visibility and Analytics Network (VAN) reference framework, with the aim of ensuring sustained availability of and access to commodities. At present, the VAN strategy does not incorporate a product categorization element. This paper proposes a research agenda for determining how product categorization could be incorporated into the VAN strategy to enable supply chain practices and policies to be tailored to the characteristics of products.
- ItemPublic-private supply chain integration as a possible means to improve public health supply chains(South African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018) Botes, Jessica; Bam, Wouter; De Kock, ImkeStruggling health supply chains and poor health outcomes in developing countries, have highlighted the need to improve these supply chains. A number of different methods have been used to improve health supply chains. However, it has been argued that the results are not sufficient and sustainable, neither do they aim to resolve impending challenges. In this paper, we put forward that public-private supply chain integration may be an important tool towards improving public health supply chains. However, further research is required to establish tools that support the determination to improve the supply chains and it. Moreover, research is required to determine whether improvements can be accomplished, as well as what the impact would be on the health supply chains in specific circumstances.
- ItemTowards an internet-of-things framework for assisting quality-controlled-logistics decision making within the fresh produce supply chain(South African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018) Joubert, Lelani; Louw, LouisFresh food is mainly wasted due to overproduction and the natural decay of food quality which cannot be prevented. Hence, actors in the fresh food supply chain are responsible to monitor and control activities that influences the quality of fresh food. The emergence of new technologies such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) creates the opportunity to collect real-time food quality information, which may be used to assist and adapt logistic activities to ensure that food quality remains in the accepted quality limits. The aim of this paper is to identify current knowledge on quality-controlled logistics (QCL) in the fresh produce industry, and to identify whether there are opportunities to implement IoT-technologies, from the perspective of experts working in the fresh produce industry.