This book provides a comprehensive and essential resource for healthcare professionals, researchers and students interested in the field of hospital logistics. Hospital logistics is a complex process encompassing a wide range of design, planning, and execution activities, providing essential support for the production of healthcare services in all their forms. It is at once strategic, tactical and operational. Its scope ranges from the design and implementation of care units and healthcare facility networks, to the procurement of expensive drugs and medical equipment, the planning of human and material resources (beds, operating theaters, transport, etc.), and the management of stocks of drugs, blood and other health products. The role of hospital logistics is essential in guaranteeing the accessibility, quality and efficiency of care. It helps to optimize care production processes, reduce costs and improve workflow management. It offers an in-depth exploration of the key issues, best practices and technological advances in this critical field.

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Fouad JAWAB graduated in Logistics in 1997 from Hassan II University (Morocco). He is a professor of higher education at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez. He founded the Industrial Management and Logistics research team in 2006 and the International Management, Decision Techniques and Logistics Research Laboratory in 2010. He supervises studies for the University Technology Diploma in Logistics and Transport, the Professional License in LOGISTICS and the University Diploma in Supply Chain Management. His research activities focus mainly on the study of supply chains in the hospital and urban sectors. He has published numerous articles in these fields. His research activity is documented by over 170 publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and several communications at international and national conferences