3PL Managed SPD-Based Logistics Management Model for Hospital Supply Chain: A Case Study of Hospital Supply Chain in Thailand

Supply, Processing and Distribution management, or SPD, is a supply chain management model that can improve hospital supply chain management effectiveness. It is successfully developed and applied by Japanese and Chinese Hospitals as the internal-hospital department function and still has potential to adjust for more corresponding to actual hospital situations [1]. In Thailand, the SPD model is adopted in a large private hospital network. From the case study of hospital supply chain in Thailand, the SPD model was studied in order to design the most effective supply chain structures. Of nine models constructed from theoretical basis and all validated as potential structures, participated experts considered four models outperform the others. To discover the most suitable one for the studied case, AHP was used to evaluate relative importance-weight of hospital logistics performance indicators. Then fuzzy TOPSIS was used to select the model. Finally, the SPD model with 3PL-managed centralized warehouse, Group Purchasing Organization and regional hubs was rated as the most appropriate model for the private hospital network case study.