TY - GEN
T1 - Lean and Green Modelling in Healthcare Supply Chains
T2 - 4th European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM 2021
AU - Duarte, Susana
AU - Cabrita, Maria Do Rosário
AU - Cruz-Machado, Virgílio
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00667%2F2020/PT#
Publisher Copyright:
© IEOM Society International.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In more than 100 years, the first global pandemic COVID-19 has proliferated all over the world at an unprecedented speed. The biopharmaceutical industry is moving fast to discovering a vaccine while governments scaling up to overcome the complex task of a global vaccination program. Now the race is on to organize supply chains to distribute billions of vaccines around the world. The logistic of the distribution vaccine requires a huge amount of people, transportation equipment, and storage equipment for low temperatures to handle the highly perishable vaccine. The process requires a just-in-time environment to get the population as fast as possible, in the right conditions for each one of the individuals that need to take the vaccine. This is huge shipping, transportation, and distribution challenge. It inspired us to reflect on the requirements of a massive COVID-19 vaccine distribution; and to contribute to the process improvement, adapting previous research work on lean and green supply chain modelling. Considering the high number of challenges, this work intends to develop a lean and green model for the healthcare supply chain. An overview of developing the coronavirus vaccine supply chain, identifying and systematizing recent trends, and the impact of COVID-19 on global supply chain management is considered. How lean and green supply chain practices can help in the vaccine supply chain.
AB - In more than 100 years, the first global pandemic COVID-19 has proliferated all over the world at an unprecedented speed. The biopharmaceutical industry is moving fast to discovering a vaccine while governments scaling up to overcome the complex task of a global vaccination program. Now the race is on to organize supply chains to distribute billions of vaccines around the world. The logistic of the distribution vaccine requires a huge amount of people, transportation equipment, and storage equipment for low temperatures to handle the highly perishable vaccine. The process requires a just-in-time environment to get the population as fast as possible, in the right conditions for each one of the individuals that need to take the vaccine. This is huge shipping, transportation, and distribution challenge. It inspired us to reflect on the requirements of a massive COVID-19 vaccine distribution; and to contribute to the process improvement, adapting previous research work on lean and green supply chain modelling. Considering the high number of challenges, this work intends to develop a lean and green model for the healthcare supply chain. An overview of developing the coronavirus vaccine supply chain, identifying and systematizing recent trends, and the impact of COVID-19 on global supply chain management is considered. How lean and green supply chain practices can help in the vaccine supply chain.
KW - COVAX Facility
KW - COVID-19 vaccine
KW - Healthcare
KW - Lean
KW - Lean-Green Supply Chain Management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126255200&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126255200
SN - 9781792361272
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
SP - 912
EP - 921
BT - Proceedings - 4th European Rome Conference 2021
A2 - Fargnoli, Mario
A2 - Lombardi, Mara
A2 - Tronci, Massimo
A2 - Dallasega, Patrick
A2 - Savino, Matteo Mario
A2 - Costantino, Francesco
A2 - Di Gravio, Giulio
A2 - Patriarca, Riccardo
PB - IEOM Society
Y2 - 2 August 2021 through 5 August 2021
ER -
