Significance of Customers' Demand-Driven in the Management of Drug Supply Chain / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:To facilitate a high performance operation of drug supply chain so as to provide satisfactory service for patients,the common terminal customers.METHODS:The principle of customer demand driven in drug supply chain and the significance of customer demand driven in drug supply chain management as well as the role hospitals played in the practice of the customer demand driven-based drug supply chain management were analyzed and qualitatively described.RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:In the environment of buyers' market of drugs,as the terminal customers' envoy plenipotentiary and the best valuable clients in the drug market,hospitals play a key role in back driving drug supply chain's high performance operation.