Medicine Donations: Matching Demand with Supply in Broken Supply Chains

Kotsi, Telesilla; Wassenhove, Luk N. Van; Hensen, Michael

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2405956

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“…According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the majority of donated equipment was inappropriate for the beneficiaries in the health sector (WHO 2010), and only 8% of recipients were estimated to work with MSROs in ensuring quality and sufficient knowledge transfer to realize the full potential of the donated equipment (Compton 2012a). Hence, the need for operations management research to improve the supply-demand match in this domain is clear (Kotsi et al 2014), and our objective in this study is to provide operational guidelines to improve resource allocation practices of MSROs. Building on the recipient-driven resource allocation model of an award-winning MSRO, our analysis provides the following insights for MSROs: When facing an impatient recipient base with urgent needs, a recipient-driven model appears to be ideal.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effective Medical Surplus Recovery

Atasu

Toktay

Yeo

et al. 2017

Production and Operations Management

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We analyze not‐for‐profit Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations (MSROs) that manage the recovery of surplus (unused or donated) medical products to fulfill the needs of underserved healthcare facilities in the developing world. Our work is inspired by an award‐winning North American non‐governmental organization (NGO) that matches the uncertain supply of medical surplus with the receiving parties’ needs. In particular, this NGO adopts a recipient‐driven resource allocation model, which grants recipients access to an inventory database, and each recipient selects products of limited availability to fill a container based on its preferences. We first develop a game theoretic model to investigate the effectiveness of this approach. This analysis suggests that the recipient‐driven model may induce competition among recipients and lead to a loss in value provision through premature orders. Further, contrary to the common wisdom from traditional supply chains, full inventory visibility in our setting may accelerate premature orders and lead to loss of effectiveness. Accordingly, we identify operational mechanisms to help MSROs deal with this problem. These are: (i) appropriately selecting container capacities while limiting the inventory availability visible to recipients and increasing the acquisition volumes of supplies, (ii) eliminating recipient competition through exclusive single‐recipient access to MSRO inventory, and (iii) focusing on learning recipient needs as opposed to providing them with supply information, and switching to a provider‐driven resource allocation model. We use real data from the NGO by which the study was inspired and show that the proposed improvements can substantially increase the value provided to recipients.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…, Kotsi et al. ). MSRO supply chains face unique operational challenges that differ from traditional for‐profit supply chains: First, the MSRO objective is not profit maximization (recipients do not pay for the goods supplied by the MSROs).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Effective Medical Surplus Recovery

Atasu

Toktay

Yeo

et al. 2017

Production and Operations Management

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“…In the State of Gujarat (India), because of the earthquake in 2001 drugs/medicines of 1,308 tons were donated (WHO, 2011). [8] Few cases in non-emergencies of medicine donations are considered to be successful because the of life of patients was improved which is a sign of quality improvement.…”

Section: B Survey Related To Unused Medicine Donationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other studies on nonemergencies, there seems to be inappropriate donations that could be avoided if end-to-end supply chain monitoring existed. This will improve the communication link between the donors, intermediaries and beneficiaries, and also provide a good match of demand and supply and ensure efficient quality of donated medicines (Mariacher et al, 2007). [9] The vast majority of studies we identified that 25 out of 33 are qualitative analyses, which may be due to the fact that governments and NGOs do not collect or keep data about their operations which may lead to difficulty in identifying the expired or inappropriate medicine usage (Van Dijk et al, 2011) [10].…”

Section: B Survey Related To Unused Medicine Donationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This will improve the communication link between the donors, intermediaries and beneficiaries, and also provide a good match of demand and supply and ensure efficient quality of donated medicines (Mariacher et al, 2007). [9] The vast majority of studies we identified that 25 out of 33 are qualitative analyses, which may be due to the fact that governments and NGOs do not collect or keep data about their operations which may lead to difficulty in identifying the expired or inappropriate medicine usage (Van Dijk et al, 2011) [10]. This may be legitimate in emergency situations, not in non-emergencies where resources time, funds, and personnel can and should be allocated to data collection and proper track of data should be maintained.…”

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A Web Application for Medicine, Food, Books & Cloth Collection and Donation

Bhoyar¹

2023

IJRASET

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The increase within the quantity of wastage in terms of Medicines, food, books, clothes make the necessity in terms of donation. There are many those that donates food, clothes and books etc. manually by vising completely different places on their own so as to resolve this crisis of needed things wastage in our country. Donations like Medicines, food, clothes and books once given with correct organization & correct management will save many lives and might ease the suffering of the poor and impoverished ones. The “Altruistic ones” acts as a connecting link between the donors and also the NGOs. Considering the number of wastages goes in a very year, donation of unused medicines together with alternative donations like food, books and clothes appear a decent thanks to get out of it because the world is growing quick with the new technologies individuals also are adapting it. Through our web-based application donor from anyplace will present the items at one platform.

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