Examination of Health Supply Chain Integration in Kenya for Recommendation to Other Countries

Discussion & Conclusion As shown in the updated supply chain diagram below, procurement, warehousing and distribution functions are now mostly integrated to KEMSA.

In comparison with categorisation of supply chain integration in supply chain management literature and other cases of integration in developing countries, integration in Kenya can be classified as in the following table. Category Sub-category Other cases of SC integration in SC integration in Kenya

developing countries *

Internal integration Internal integration

Vertical integration Integration with supplier

Quantification coordination with DP

Integration with customer

Horizontal integration / collaboration

Multi-product supply chain integration

x

Item-wise SC integration / DP-wise SC integration

Horizontal logistics collaboration

*the cases introduced in Beith et al. (2006) and WHO and PATH (2013)

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