Supply Chain Challenges & Problems:

From the responses of 30 officials from SK+F and TDCL the following challenges have been identified:

• Lack of coordination

• Inventory management

• Absent demand information

• Human resource dependency

• Order management

• Shortage avoidance

• Expiration

• Warehouse management

• Temperature control

• Shipment visibility
Problems in the Supply Chain Management Process:

With not much information available, it is not clearly known how exactly the overall supply chain
processes are being conducted in Eskayef Bangladesh Limited. However, with the available data, it can
be assumed that Eskayef Bangladesh Limited is yet to change their SCM strategy considering modern
perspectives. Supposedly, they are still following the traditional approaches whereas big companies are
moving towards modernization in the process, preferably towards Green Supply Chain Management.
Therefore, their main drawback our group has been able to identify is their inefficiency of remaining up
to date with the existing modern approaches.

Also, their pharmaceutical supply system is complex, and involves multiple organizations that play
differing but sometimes overlapping roles in drug distribution and contracting. This complexity results in
considerable price variability across different types of consumers, and the supply chain is not well
understood by patients or policymakers.