This Handbook on Materials Management for Healthcare is an adaptable reference book which provides sound and complete indispensable introduction and information to the materials function in healthcare industry. It includes descriptions of a wide variety of sub-topics and provides assessment tools such as checklists and specific action plans for improving operational performance. It provides a quick access to the working managers and hospital’s administrators regarding everyday issues without having to do excessive research.

This book will also be found extremely useful for students of Hospital Management as it equips them with the tools and techniques of materials management, inventory control, purchasing, store-keeping and supply chain management especially as they are applied to and practiced in the peculiar ecosystems prevalent in healthcare industry. It meets the syllabii requirements of almost all the universities and institutes which are conducting courses on Hospital administration. This book also addresses the concerns about costs, quality of patient care and treatment outcomes. Suitable exercise, model questions, numerical problems, hints and answers have been included to benefit the student community.

Efforts have been made to strike a balance between the overview approach and the treatment of specific details. It is the first book of its kind in India about the healthcare industry.

Contents:

Part – I: Ch-1: Origin and Growth of Materials Management In Indian Healthcare Industry, Ch-2: Integrated Hospital Materials Management, Ch-3: Materials Management In Hospital Pharmacy, Part – II: Ch-4: Purchasing Function, Origin, Scope and Objectives, Ch-5: Organization for Purchasing Function, Ch-6: Purchasing Cycle, Ch-7: Purchasing Parameters, Ch-8: Negotiations In Purchasing, Ch-9: Hospital Purchasing and Industrial Purchasing - A Comparison, Ch-10: Special Features of Hospital Purchasing, PART – III: Ch-11: Scope of Inventory Control and Its Impact on Rofitability, Ch-12: Classification of Hospital Inventories, Ch-13: Cost Associated With Inventories, Ch-14: Economic Order Quantity, Ch-15: Selective Controls of Inventory, Ch-16: Lead Time Management, Ch-17: Designing of Inventory Control Systems, PART – IV: Ch-18: Stores Organization, Ch-19: Stores Building and Stores Layout, Ch-20: Physical Verification of Inventories, Ch-21: Inventory Valuation, Ch-22: Supply and Distribution Management, PART-V: Ch-23: Value Analysis/Value Engineering (Vave), Ch-24: Supply Chain Management Relevance To Healthcare Industry, Ch-25: Information Technology (It) Applications In Healthcare.

About the Author:

Dr. VENKAT REDDY VAGVALA, is presently Visiting Professor for Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, and Institute of Public Enterprise Hyderabad. He is guest speaker at Administrative Staff College of India, Engineering Staff College of India, Centre of Plant Engineering Services, (COPES), Hyderabad Management Association, National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NIMSME), Central Institute of Rural Electrification (CIRE), Government of India, and many other institutions of repute. He is Member, Board of Studies, Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM) since 1982. He was the 9th in the country and the first from erstwhile Andhra Pradesh to be awarded the Distinguished Membership - the highest award for outstanding services rendered to Materials Management profession, besides other awards such as “Best Faculty Award”, “Best Materials Manager of the year 1983-84 Award” and “Member of the year 1988-89 Award” by IIMM. He is Life Fellow of IIMM and Indian Institution of Plant Engineers and has been the Hon. Course Director, IIMM, Hyderabad since 1980. Presently he is a Management Consultant and has been teaching subjects such as MM, Operations Management, Product Management, Industrial Marketing, Services Marketing, SCM, Inventory Management, Purchase Management, World class Manufacturing, Global Sourcing, International Trade etc., at various Management Institutes.

He worked as Chief Executive of a public sector company and also in private sector for more than a decade. His experience of teaching and practising ran concurrently.