Understanding Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

“Understanding Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management”
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Introduction
The operational management is a term that is used for the purpose of managing the
important resources that are used for the purpose of producing, delivering and
producing the essential facilities on time to all the customers. The resources used
in this approach are normally highlighted as labour, materials, and the equipment
of capital.
The supply chain management can be defined as management as well as planning
of various activities which involves in sourcing & procedure, conversion as well as
in all logistic management activity. Moreover, it also includes to coordinate and
collaborate with the intermidiate channel parners of the operations.
Logistic management can be defined as the management of supply chain which
control, implement and plan the flow & storage of good and services from the
starting to the end point where comsumer consumes the product in order to meet its
needs.
Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management are those methods that uses specific
performance applications for the determination of producing services and products that are good
in quality. Everything in the market is produced with this approach, for instance; everything
involved related to what people eat, wear, used, or even read has been produced initially (Tsai et
al 2015).
The strategies including supply chain management are also applicable in the hospitals. With the
regular development and growth in the departments of healthcare are related to the upgraded
technologies that are used for the purpose of curing dangerous diseases. It is considered vigorous

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for the healthcare institutes especially in hospitals to run these policies with the reasons of
efficiently providing the services without any serious consequences. Involved managers and
individuals behind the fulfilment of financial minds of the hospital with in the category of supply
chain are related to the planning and creating the strategies of management. In some cases, when
any hospital notices or is being problematic in various department, the staff is being blamed,
staff like; nurses, doctors, and other individuals working at a managerial position. However,
according to the theories of supply management and logistics the issues of the level of
management are occurred because of the failures of hospitals and not because of the staff
(Shanks 2016)
Hospital Review
The London Bridge Hospital comes under the sector of Healthcare. With a number of facilities,
this healthcare institute has air conditioned rooms that reassure the comfort level of all the
patients while they are seeking treatment on a temporary or regular basis. The London bridge
hospital bridge like other healthcare institutes with in United Kingdom has the aim and objective
of providing good care to the patients. The London Bridge Hospital uses the strategies of
operational management methods in order to improve all the workers’ productivity, limiting the
cycle times, improvement in the overall experiences observed by the patients and their families,
and also reducing the unnecessary waiting lines. All these basic contributions are considered to
as beneficial for the progress of the financial conditions of the services. The operational needs
related to the experiences in this situation are considered as the successful integration of all the
involved qualitative and quantitative aspects related in the management of the optimal efforts
that are used with in the same platform of the organization (Qureshi et al 2019).

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Key operation, logistics and supply chain management issues faced by the
operations and supply chain manager(s) in hospital.
In London Bridge Hospital, the synopsis of healthcare is related to the involved functions related
to the active hospital staff. In order to provide their medical services to the patients in every best
way possible. Currently, there are various facilities related to the transformation of healthcare
industry all the around the world especially those who are related to the healthcare management
and the whole industry, this way new updated and upgraded policies are allowed to adopt
according to the needs of this industry as upgraded reforms are always operated on the basis of
newly developed reforms and operations. The management working in the London Bridge
Hospital are responsive and aware of the facilities that are effective and efficient within the
success of the hospital in healthcare industry. These approaches are considered extremely
effective as it is believed that this way new sentiments along with opinions of medical staff and
patients are related to the determination of passing on the reviews related to the services and
hospital staff behaviours (Lather and Messner 2018).
The London Bridge hospital has already faced a lot of issues and challenges related to the ranges
of utilizing the resources, improving the care management, lowering the medical costs for under
privileged patients. The reduction related to the bottlenecks and the applications of all those
solutions that are common in reference to the ensuring new successes in hospitals in both long
and small and long term policies, in this reference; the customers are both connected internally
and externally. The external customers are those who are the patients and other individuals who
regularly visit the organization and on the other hand, the employees and other staff members are
known as internal individuals. The institutional structure of London Bridge Hospital is further
evaluated with the TQM tools of fish bone and stratification.