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Logistics – the management of the supply chain – is an essential part of any business, since the ability to supply the correct product is a pre-requisite to trade and failure to do so will lead to loss of revenue and customer dissatisfaction. While in the past, for example, following the Boots self-service case before the British High Court in 1953 [1], it has been argued that medicines are not ordinary items of commerce, they are commodities that are traded and therefore the principles of market demand and supply chain dynamics apply.
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Goundrey-Smith, S. (2013). Barcodes and Logistics. In: Information Technology in Pharmacy. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2780-2_7
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