A Study on Location Selection for Medical Logistics Centers

• Main Authors: I-Chuan Kuo, 郭怡娟
• Other Authors: Fan-Yun Pai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59252588085978688013

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 企業管理學系國際企業經營管理 === 102 === Since NHI (National Health Insurance) System was instituted, Bureau of NHI has strived to reduce the waste by implementing some remedial measures. Reducing the payment of medicine, and promoting the systems of “Case Payment”, “Capitation Payment”, “Global Budget” and “Optimum Outpatient Visit” cause the sharply decrease in revenue of hospitals. Because increasing income is getting harder under presently medical system, the managers of hospitals should cut off spending on human resources, medicine and medical facilities to become a going-concern. Medical institutions start to pay attention to cost of logistics of medicine and medical instruments. Although the cost just account for 30 percent of the total cost, it is still an important source to lower operating cost. Therefore, this study proposes a methodology to determining a proper location of pharmaceutical logistics center. This study aims to identify the critical criteria to determine the location of pharmaceutical logistics center. First, criteria were searched through literature review and then ten experts were invited to verify the importance of the criteria by Modified Delphi Method. Four criteria and 14 sub-criteria are selected. DEMATEL was then employed to analyze the relationships among criteria and sub-criteria. According to the relationships, ANP model was constructed and an ANP questionnaire was designed and distributed. ANP was employed to determine the importance of each criteria and sub-criteria. The first five important criteria are “smooth receiving and shipping route”, “sufficient parking space”, “reasonable construction cost, “reasonable distribution cost” and “reasonable transportation cost”. Managers can take these factors into the first consideration on logistics to lower expense and then improve competitiveness.