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Chennai Area, India India

Supply Chain Analyst, Dr Agarwal's Eye Hospitals

Every hospital comes with its unique set of challenges, costs and process implementations. Vendor rationalisation, material costs analyses, inventory management and service level maintenance are the critical components of supply chain in the health care industry. While reducing material costs at any hospital leads to a direct impact on the bottom line of the P&L statement - doing so at the risk of endangering the service level at the hospital is a major risk. At Dr Agarwal's chain of Eye Hospitals, my role as a supply chain manager is to optimise costs, benchmark hospitals on their material utilisation, manage inventory levels (keeping in mind lead times), select vendors based on perform...