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Pharmaceutical industry is experiencing a time of change because of several reasons. This time of change has generated new needs as efficiency and effectiveness. Pharmaceutical Supply Chains need to compete in their industry and the attention paid to those issues is continuously increasing. Some studies have been conducted for this research line, but many of them are non-mathematical and non-numerical studies. The aim of this paper is to present a modeled Supply Chain to understand how Lean Approach can impact on the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. In fact we implemented some Lean practice along the Supply Chain and we measured the obtained performances.
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Staudacher, A.P., Bush, A. (2014). Analyzing the Impact of Lean Approach in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. In: Matta, A., Li, J., Sahin, E., Lanzarone, E., Fowler, J. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 61. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01848-5_20
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