Beyond just-in-time: the UCLA Medical Center experience.
This article is a narrative description of how and why the UCLA Medical Center arrived at the point of a vendor-managed supply distribution program. The article outlines a historical perspective of supply distribution and places UCLA in that framework. It goes on to summarize the UCLA Medical Center model both for stock and nonstock distribution. A new program overview outlines the Owens & Minor commitment to UCLA, and there is a short discussion of AXIOMM, the UCLA Medical Center computer purchasing program.
University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.
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