American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences

Operation Research for Optimizing Healthcare Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The efficient allocation and utilisation of logistics is crucial for the administration of healthcare.
Every client class in the hospital has a unique treatment process flow route that spans several phases and dimensions, requiring precious funds and not enough space. the result of healthcare stakeholders' issue to establish a framework for logistics evaluation in order to handle this circumstance. Despite being operational and well-equipped, privately held healthcare facilities are nonetheless unable to satisfy the expectations placed on them. Healthcare commodities are still running low in certain circumstances due to a lack of the necessary structure in place to manage the logistics and guarantee an effective supply chain. A number of interdisciplinary, interconnected medical and administrative procedures are included in patient management; these stages must be carefully connected and coordinated to prevent issues with wait times and improper use of healthcare assets.  

Additionally, in order to determine optimal resource supply chain management, seek out the consequences of various techniques and the way they combine. The data from an evaluation of a usual health care institution was used to evaluate the virtual. The analysis and optimisation of healthcare logistics by our technique are illustrated by favourable outcomes. Naturally, if guidelines are put into effect, logistical operations at medical facilities—such as hospitals or clinics—have to offer a substantial means of reducing healthcare costs. Develop a structure that may guarantee a supply chain that is more effective, as businesses, especially those in the healthcare industry, rely on them to give them what they need to live and grow. Despite only typical physical flows, the handling of logistics operations takes other flows—like patients—into account along the whole care chain. A pharmacological supply chain's economical and operational elements can be greatly enhanced by competent logistic planning for the various automobiles with capacity determination and multi-period logistical planning. New data on resources and demands that have come to light can be used to amend this model. The operations of material procurement, specialist and patient mobility, and distribution are all part of the healthcare logistics, which is a significant management function.

We've outlined a few of the difficulties hospitals will face in the upcoming days. The contributions that have been proposed for this special issue add to the body of knowledge about healthcare logistics. A greater grasp of logistical concerns pertaining to supply chain management techniques, including equality, efficient network distribution structure, and the profitability in this particular context, is provided by instances carried out globally.

Topics of interest for this SI include but are not limited to, the following:

• A methodology for optimising healthcare logistics to ensure effective supply chain management
• Essential issues for quality and economic development in healthcare supply chain management
• Improving Healthcare Supply Chain Effectively: Using Machine Learning to Optimise Operations
• Implementing a multi-objective optimisation model for medicinal supply chain logistics planning
• Using model to assist in healthcare supply chain management making decisions
• An antiviral vaccine supply optimisation model for a green healthcare supply chain
• Healthcare logistics: patient logistics modelling and optimisation
• Medical logistics' effects on healthcare consumers' high-quality existence
• Multipurpose optimisation quality ideas in a sustainable healthcare supply chain
• A lean-tooled, optimization-based technique to fortify the medical supply chain
• Medicinal items in a healthcare supply chain: smart asset management strategies