DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN
LEUMIT HEALTH SERVICES
156 tions online and have them delivered to their homes . “ We ’ re going to be the first HMO to do this ,” he explains . Breaking ground in this way isn ’ t without its challenges , Zimels admits . “ In Israel , the regulations on something like this are very strict , so until now nobody was able to offer a prescription delivery service . When you innovate like this , you have to start from scratch and that leads to challenges . We ’ ve had to have a lot of sessions with the Ministry of Health to explain what kind of help we need and which regulations they have to change so that we will be able to begin making deliveries .”
DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN
At a time when Leumit is embarking on an expansion of its logistics responsibilities as significant as prescription deliveries , Zimels and his team have needed to harness every tool at their disposal to improve the consistency and quality of the HMO ’ s back end supply chain function . “ We ’ ve just finished implementing SAP across
OCTOBER 2019