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Decision making support has become essential to conduct an effective management and operational system. It is considered an important part of operational research and management science. There are various decision issues concerning the good governance and management of a supply chain. In this paper, we focus on the conception problem of a supply chain, especially the geographical location implementation...
Lean and Six Sigma are approaches that have the same motivation: Processes improvement and customer satisfaction. Both were used separately in the healthcare sector, but rarely together. This paper intends to integrate the two approaches in order to reach the highest level of patient safety.
This paper presents a new method of measuring hidden quality costs that are associated with a supplier. The hidden quality costs are the costs that could be identified, but hard to be quantified. Quantification of these costs is conducted based on several existing methods, such as Taguchi's quality loss function. This function has been proved to be successful over the last fifteen years for the improvement...
Facility layout has an important impact on the performance of a manufacturing organization. The problem concerns the modeling, planning and design determination of the human activities and the physical resources. The manufacturing activities require an interaction between several management departments of the organization such as procurement, storage and maintenance; thus the necessity of the consideration...
Energy demand is an important factor; it represents the industrial development of a country. In this work, we use ARIMA (Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average) to model Morocco's energy demand. The model is validated by various statistical approaches such as the determination coefficient, R square, R-square stationary. Additionally, the performance of the model is assessed using mean absolute...
The choice of a facility layout design is a very complicated decision. It requires a specific multi-attribute decision making process involving various criteria. In fact the evaluation and the selection of a facility layout planning are usually crucial decision and requires a long processing approach since the criteria have different nature (qualitative and qualitative) and conflicting features. The...
In the context of meeting the increasing demand for healthcare services, hospitals have to promote a continuous improvement of quality while reducing costs. For that, there is a serious obligation to search for new ways of improvement. A good management of healthcare supply chain (HSC) flows may ensure a better performance and enhanced healthcare services quality. Considered as the most critical flow...
In the current economic environment, designing an efficient distribution and transportation network is considered as a competitive advantage for every company, which has to answer at minimum costs in an effective way at the demand of its customers, in specific deadlines while assuring a good level of service. But with today's pressure upon companies to reduce the environmental impact of their logistics...
Lean maintenance is a new thinking looking for ways to reduce maintenance costs by focusing on adding value operations. Healthcare logistics aims also to minimize costs of several functions including maintenance. In that context, this paper intends to show the impact of lean and logistics on maintenance in hospitals. For that, the first part describes the interest of the Lean and logistics on maintenance...
Hospital logistics has been a subject of interesting studies in recent years, this interest is due to the important part of this function in the control of budgetary performance of hospitals. In this work we suggest a study of pharmacies grouping impact on reducing the cost medication returns. The first part of the article shows the interest of the hospital logistics and the literature on the evaluation...
We propose a news simple optimization approach to the layout location planning design problem, when the CO2 emission is considered as the main decision criterion. Our methodology uses mathematical modeling and genetic steps technique to achieve an optimized “Block layout” with a minimum total CO2 emission. However, the proposed approach is based on a developing technique where departments are assigned...
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and Lean Manufacturing are two production methods. The evolution of the industrial sector has led companies to review their strategies on the application of the two methods. ERP vendors are beginning to recognize the power and benefits of Lean Manufacturing, hence the idea of combining these two principles of production which gave birth to hybrid system Push / Pull...
The maintenance process represents the core support for every industrial company to maintain a study production rate. And each company strives to improve the maintenance process in order to support and lower disturbances in the process of production. The purpose of this work is to propose a methodology to evaluate the performance of the maintenance process via performance indicators of both the maintenance...
In Morocco, the number of hospitals implementing a Hospital Information System (HIS) remains very low. Some of the information systems existing actually within hospitals meet operational and corporate excellence, but contribute rarely or not to support the governmental decision making. However, the exploitation of data provided by hospitals may be very useful in healthcare decision's orientation....
The mission of a hospital is a complex task due to the multiplicity of care services offered and other factors that come into play during operation: Cost, Quality, Security
The purchasing function is the strongest link in the hospital supply chain. The stakes which are related to it are often complex and difficult to define. Public institutions and hospitals are all invited to master these link operations, with a particular focus on the hospital-supplier relationship. One of the most crucial is the selection of the right supplier, which is based on both qualitative and...
Direct supply chain logistics is an essential part in all industries to acquire raw materials and deliver products to customer at the optimal time and at minimal cost to ensure customers' satisfaction. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the importance of reverse logistics, logistics management system products recovered by the company, with regard to recycling, recovery and other forms of product...
Direct logistics chain is implemented in all industries to ensure customer satisfaction by ensuring delivery at any time and at minimal cost. The interest of this work is to demonstrate the importance of reverse logistics, management system for products recovery by companies with regard for recycling, for recovery and other forms of product returns from customer to producer and its integration in...
For many years the health system has been involved in changes focused on the patient. A recent law stated that patients must be informed to take part in medical decisions. Generally, the medical staff and the patients share medical knowledge; in this study our question is how and why to share the experience with the patient. Our work concerns the identification of empowerment criterions; it has been...
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