THE IMPACT OF SUPPLY CHAIN PRACTICES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF PRIVATE HEALTH CARE SECTOR IN KENYA
Kimani Mercy Wairimu - Masters in International Business Management, Department of Business, University of East London, United Kingdom
Evangelos Tsoukatos - University of East London, United Kingdom
ABSTRACT
Effective supply chain management (SCM) provides an impending system currently to augment performance through coordinative SCM practices and economic advantages in the aggressive global arena. Activities in supply chain, Logistics networks, and inventory management were, established as a matter of subsistence and viable benefit for organization/s. Studies carried out SCM practices’ sphere revealed that indecorous management might have been instigated by various bases such as the management level of commitment, incurred costs and the workforce skills’ level. Supply Chain Management processes amidst the supply chain is an immense challenge for cultivating dexterity within the value chains in the organization/s. Scheming and controlling the processes in each supply chain is an epoch necessity, as it articulates the business prospects with regards of its success and/or failure, since intense competition is, propagating gradually. This exploration study, conceptualizes besides developing, the role of supply-chain-management (SCM) practices in fostering supply-chain-management (SCM) performance. The intuition from the proposed framework herein will alleviate the corresponding stakeholders in the Kenyan private hospitals and supply chain managers in other public and private institutions in implementing apt systems of SCM practices thereby enhancing the overall supply-chain-management performance.