title: Just-in-time and stockless programs for hospitals: fad or trend?
abstract: The JIT and stockless approach to provider-supplier relationships has proven to be a win-win proposition for the partners that have implemented it in many manufacturing industries and health care organizations as well. This strategy will fundamentally impact the entire cost structure within the hospital supply distribution chain. rewards have proven attainable and more comprehensive than had been hoped in the health care applications. The sweeping changes the health care industry experienced during the 1980s are leading creative materiel managers to seize the initiative to improve the current operating costs of their hospitals. They do not want to be left behind "holding the inventory."
authors: Baxter Healthcare Corporation, McGaw Park, IL.
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mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000639:trends*; D003363:Cost Control; D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States