POSTGRADUATE CENTRE

PROJECT RISK, PROCUREMENT AND INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT (MBP2143)

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 2
TERM April - May 2020

PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT

Assignment Instruction
 This Assignment carries a 30% of the total marks for the module, is compulsory to candidate
attending the class.
 A softcopy of the assignment must be submitted in a Google Classroom
 The report should be about 3,000 words (+/- 10%)
 Any similarities between individual assignments will result in fail grade
 Presentation format must be following the latest version of LUCT’s ASSIGNMENT AND
PROJECT PAPER GUIDEBOOK- writing and presenting paper for Maters Degree Students.

Introduction
The healthcare industry is viewed as the world’s largest industry in terms of budget,
employees, customers, etc. This industry always faces many challenges such as high inflation
in healthcare costs, waste of time and resources when supplying the required items and failure
to safeguard the availability of supplies. These prevalent issues have imposed various extreme
political and public pressures on the healthcare providers. As it is obvious, such challenges
greatly depend on the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement processes in the healthcare
systems.

Your Task
1. Identify common problem in Healthcare Procurement.
2. Describe and investigate Procurement Management in Healthcare Systems and the
related challenges as well as some optimization approaches, which have been used to
deal with procurement management problems in healthcare systems.

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PREPARED BY: DR SITI AIDA BT SAMIKON

MAY 2020