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Outsourcing a Means for Strengthening the Health Care Supply Chain Management: A Narrative Review

Habtamu Solomon Mengistu*, Manaye Tamrie Derseh, Abinet Abebe Zewdu, Kaleab Taye Haile, Biniam Bahiru, Abyou Seyfu Ambaye

Outsourcing is the movement of business processes from inside the organization to third party service providers who in turn owns, administrates and manages the selected process, based upon defined and measurable performance metrics. The aim of this study is to see whether outsourcing is useful in strengthening the health care supply chain management. Narrative review was conducted by analyzing secondary data from four research databases and nonpublished documents available. Through the searching, 209 articles were downloaded and 42 recently published articles were selected after abstraction with application of inclusion and exclusion criteria for this paper. Now days, low and middle-income countries are achieving remarkable scores in their health care supply chain because of outsourcing. Outsourcing is being used as a means to further strengthen the health care supply chain system in aspects of cost savings, transportation, achieving core business competency, increased product quality, availability, affordability, increasing business process competitiveness and the like. To ensure strengthening of the health care supply chain there should be a third-party logistician led distribution of commodities. It is important for the health care supply chain team member to make cost-benefit-risk analysis and consider core competency tasks as best requirements before employing outsourcing.