Research On Medical Supply Chain Improving

Since the entering into the 21 st century,with the aggravating trend of aging population,Medical device industry entered a period of vigorous development.The medical market size becomes bigger and bigger.Especially in China market,governments pay more focus on healthcare systems and medical market by making some reform measure.All this make the company competition turn to supply chain competition.But the supply chain management level is lower than other industrial.Only the company who improves supply chain efficiency with lower cost will gain advantage in competition.This article sorts out the problems which W Company faces on supply chain management.The first is multi hierarchy designed organization.It makes W company have to take more time to deliver the goods and information.The second is the bad marketing forecast with plenty of models and different design.The third is the bad production plan and site management.The last is the huge inventory with lack of material & semi product.By research and analysis on the cause of the problems,we make a set of improving programs for W.it including: re-design the origination frame to get a rapid path for information & goods delivery.In demands chain,guide and manage customer behavior.Use different order policy for different model.Improve the production standardization and try to make quotation by TCO guiding.In planning chain,the postponement strategy is provided in manufacture process.And the other program is to set the key management target for manufacture process and keep track of the performance.With regarding the inventory,set up a unified platform,make sure all inventory data is right and accurate,set up the management target and optimized inventory driven process.All these programs help to improve the supply chain management of W Company.The inventory is cutting and the DOS is fasting.It also provides experience for similar enterprises in the industry.