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Pharmaceutical Supply Chains - Medicines Shortages

  • Provides pharmaceutical case studies
  • Covers uncertainty and risk aspects of supply chain management
  • Carefully combines the scientific level with a pedagogical approach
  • Written by experts in the field

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Logistics (LNLO)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. The European Medicines Shortages Research Network and Its Mission to Strategically Debug Disrupted Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

    • Helena Jenzer, Leila Sadeghi, Patrick Maag, Franziska Scheidegger-Balmer, Katja Uhlmann, Stefan Groesser
    Pages 1-22
  3. Design and Planning of Sustainable Vaccine Supply Chain

    • Mafalda Ivo de Carvalho, David Ribeiro, Ana Paula Barbosa-Povoa
    Pages 23-55
  4. Risk Mitigation and Preventing Medicines Shortages

    • João Roque, João Luís de Miranda, Pál Fehér-Polgár
    Pages 103-109
  5. The Needs and Barriers Within the Supply Chain Actors—Hospital Pharmacy Needs

    • Aida Batista, João Luís de Miranda, Ana Paula Teixeira
    Pages 147-153
  6. Rationing of Nursing Care: An International and Multidimensional Problem

    • António Casa Nova, Raul Cordeiro, Olga Riklikiene
    Pages 163-168
  7. Linear Programming and Cloud Computing for Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

    • Miguel Casquilho, João Luís de Miranda, Miguel Barros
    Pages 169-181
  8. IBM Watson Studio: A Platform to Transform Data to Intelligence

    • Roy R. Cecil, Jorge Soares
    Pages 183-192
  9. The Integration of a Flow Model into a Stakeholder-Based Framework for Vaccine Supply Chain Design

    • Stef Lemmens, Catherine Decouttere, Nico Vandaele, Mauro Bernuzzi, Kim De Boeck, Sherif Hassane et al.
    Pages 193-201
  10. Resilience Strategies and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: The Role of Agility in Mitigating Drug Shortages

    • Emilia Vann Yaroson, Liz Breen, Jiachen Hou, Julie Sowter
    Pages 249-256

About this book

This book provides an insight of relevant case studies and updated practices in “Pharmaceutical
Supply Chains” (PharmSC) while addressing the most relevant topics within the COST Action “Medicines Shortages” (CA15105).
The volume focuses on the most recent developments in the design, planning and scheduling of
PharmSC, broadening from the suppliers’ selection to the impact on patients and healthcare
systems, addressing uncertainty and risk mitigation, and computational issues. It is directed at MSc/PhD students and young researchers (Post-Docs) in Pharmaceutics/Pharmaceutical sciences, Engineering fields, Economics/Management, as well as pharmaceutical decision makers, managers, and practitioners, and advanced readers demanding a fresh approach to decision making for PharmSC. The contributed chapters are associated with the homonymous COST Training Schools (TS), and the book creates a better understanding of the Action “Medicines Shortages” challenges and opportunities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Engineering and Management, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Paula Barbosa-Povoa

  • aF&E Ernährung und Diätetik, Berner Fachhochschule, Bern, Switzerland

    Helena Jenzer

  • ESTG/IPP, Portalegre, Portugal

    João Luís de Miranda

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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