Supply Chain Risk Management and Performance of Selected Hospitals in the Upper-West Region of Ghana

Abstract

Health is an outcome indicator of economic growth and development of a country. Thus, adopting inappropriate supply chain risk management strategies in managing healthcare supply chain could have serious repercussions on hospital’s performance which could lead to loss of many lives. The study, therefore, examined the effect of supply chain risk management strategies on the performance of hospitals in Upper West Region of Ghana. More importantly, the study examined how supplier management strategy, inventory management strategy and last mass distribution strategy affect healthcare supply chain performance and how it could impact on patients’ satisfaction of the hospitals under studied. The examination was supported by network hypothesis and asset-based view hypothesis. The examination receives the positivism reasoning, quantitative methodology and logical plan. Utilizing the enumeration and basic arbitrary examining strategies, organized surveys were regulated to 96-unit heads of emergency clinics and 132 patients in the Upper West Region. Out of this, a solid informational index of 96 and 102 respondents was prepared utilizing IBM SPSS Statistics form 25 and Smart PLS adaptation 3 programming. Utilizing the Partial Least Square – Structural Equation Modelling, the investigation found that store network hazard the board techniques including provider the executives, stock administration and last mass circulation the board have critical effect on medical care inventory network execution which prompts patients' fulfilment. The study therefore recommends that hospitals in the Upper West Region should adopt all the above management strategies in order to improve hospitals’ performances.