Supply Chain Frontiers issue #36.
A summary report and presentations from the Second Zaragoza Global Health Supply Chain Summit are available for event attendees. The two-day “Bringing Industry, Government, NGOs, and Academia Together: What Can Be Learned from the For-Profit World?” summit was organized by the Zaragoza Logistics Center and took place December 3, 2009, in Zaragoza, Spain.
More than 75 leaders from multilateral and bilateral institutions, businesses, academia, and governments addressed issues that impact the supply chains for healthcare delivery in the developing world. The summit enabled thought and knowledge exchange through a series of presentations, seminars, and roundtable sessions.
Participants emphasized that, as the overall financing for procurement of vaccines, drugs, and other health commodities for global health exceeds several billion dollars a year, it is important to build a common understanding of the underlying problems that affect the supply chains that deliver these products.
The event was organized around the three main dimensions of supply chain management: product, information, and financial flows. Successful management of global health supply chains requires each of these flows to be managed efficiently and effectively, and the summit made it easier to understand the challenges and innovation within each flow. An integrative session was organized at the end to illustrate how successful companies and organizations attempt to bring together each of these flows.
For more information on the Health Summit and a related summary, contact Cristina Tabuenca.