Logistics is a key element of health supply chain management, ensuring the proper storage and timely distribution of quality health products and services through specifically designed channels. Making strategic, well-informed logistics outsourcing decisions allows you to engage the private sector and utilize the capabilities and skills of Logistics Service Providers (LSPs). It can support extending geographic coverage for better product access, improving service levels for better product availability, ensuring product quality, and capturing operational efficiencies for better value for money. Moreover, it can enhance operational flexibility and improve supply chain resilience. Effective logistics outsourcing is a critical contributor to improving health service delivery and health outcomes.
The success of outsourcing logistics depends on our collective efforts to address a variety of challenges facing our sector. The aim is to ensure that activities around outsourcing are designed to tackle these issues intentionally. Please read our position paper to learn more:
This global good presents a logistics outsourcing framework. It combines a readiness scan to help you evaluate your organization’s readiness to execute the outsourcing process efficiently and proficiently, and a detailed logistics outsourcing process description covering twelve consecutive steps. The framework is designed to foster intentional and informed decision-making through the process. It builds on internal best practices and is tailored specifically to our sector, ensuring it meets unique needs and enhances overall efficiency in executing the logistics outsourcing process.
Through the framework presented here, we aim to elevate logistics outsourcing into a strategic and well-planned process. This empowers governments, implementers, and donors to confidently determine what, if, and when to outsource, and to do so proficiently and efficiently. We see it as an invaluable global resource for everyone working to optimize logistics operations.
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