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Modern Approaches in Logistic Processes Management for Pharmaceutical Products
Modern Approaches in Logistic Processes Management for Pharmaceutical Products

Author(s): Virgil Dinulescu
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Health and medicine and law, Transport / Logistics
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: Supply chain management; logistics; management; pharmaceutical products;

Summary/Abstract: The pharmaceutical products market possess tow main characteristics – is one of the oldest market in the world and the one of the most government restricted mass market of all the time. The logistic processes associated with this market are particular and specialized in terms of flows, actors and production means and equipments. The management of all processes involved by the way of a pharmaceutical product from the dispatch of a medicine product to the patient tends to become a very specialized sub-branch of management with rules, functions and theory that differs it from the rest of supply chain management general rules. Continuous improvement of the processes conducts to better performance of the management and knowledge based theory deployment. Present paper main purpose is to identify the similarities and most differences of the pharmaceutical products’ logistic processes, compare to the general supply management processes and also to emphasis the management particularities of the pharmaceutical products’ logistic processes.

  • Issue Year: 10/2009
  • Issue No: S2
  • Page Range: 1129-1134
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English