The Effect of Supply Chain Integration on Project Performance in Healthcare Projects: The Case of Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency on Operating Room Establishment project
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Project management is a crucial skill in a lot of different healthcare industries, therefore it is very important to understand projects and their management (PMI, 2017). Project supply chains are
those that deliver goods for a specific client and need to be customized or even created from scratch. Supply chain comprises of all the components, exercises and forms required to convey
an item from raw material to a last client, such exercises incorporate request determining, resource allocation, production planning, planning, stock administration and client delivery. For
many years, the essential center of the health sector has been to supply patients with the best quality of care recently, with the rising cost of supplies and the severe competition among healthcare suppliers the weight on material managers to operate more cost-efficiently without compromising high patient care measures has essentially expanded, due to that supply chain is getting to be backbone for the trade scenario. As a result of the company's value delivery network's integration of all supply chain participants, no one can work more successfully alone. Delivering value to clients and accomplishing the specified level of client happiness and dependability for the company is the extreme objective of this cooperative relationship, in order to do this, the Supply chain's inside and outside partners must be integrated at different levels (Schneller and Smeltzer, 2006). Mixed research method utilizing both questionnaires and interview were applied to collect data from respondents of the project stakeholders. Explanatory and descriptive research design have been applied to describe the cause and effect relationship between the research variables. The census survey with forty eight respondents were taken based on four sources including; EPSA staff, supplier, Distributor and healthcare service providers. The goal of the research paper is to examine how supply chain integration affects project performance in healthcare projects. The four components that make up the supply chain integration concept are organizational relationship linking, coordination of resource sharing, information integration, and barriers to supply chain integration. Every industry has some integration obstacles that have an impact on the link between integration and organizational project performance. While other sectors have experienced significant progress through the deployment of supply chain management practices, healthcare sector in Ethiopia has not seen major improvements in this area. However, in spite of the uniqueness and complexity of the healthcare supply chain, opportunities for improvements are plentiful
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Supply chain (SC)