Collaborative capabilities

Health Systems as Industrial Policy Building Collaborative Capabilities in the Tanzanian and Kenyan Health Sectors and Their Local Suppliers... 

We argue that to achieve better developmental synergies between industrial development in manufacturing medicines and health system performance, both health and industrial sectors have to strengthen what we call collaborative capabilities the capability to respond effectively to the opportunities offered by the other sector. We identify key elements of these collaborative capabilities in each sector and trace some ways in which institutional evolution and changing market structures can move health and industrial supplier sectors towards or away from mutually beneficial trading and working relations with each other. 

We then go on to explore the mediation of these interactions via the under-researched institutions of procurement and local marketing. Procurement and marketing, we argue, are culturally and politically rooted institutions, not mere policy instruments. We aim to demonstrate that policy coherence, which is essential to incentivizing health-industry collaboration, is not only a matter of political will it is itself a social construct that has to be built through institutional generation of collaborative capabilities and compatible incentive structures between health and industry at national level. 

Figure 8 High throughput organic synthesizer developed in collaboration with Cyberlab, Inc. [25] and designed to process the 96-deepwell reaction blocks. The instrument is capable of tolerating a wide range of chemistry (liquid contacts are glass, stainless steel, or Teflon) and accomplishes the transfer of reagents with coaxial tip (N2 inlets) single-needle and four-needle probes.

Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) both are operations models in the consumer goods industry to ensure delivery capability and avoid stockouts based on an automated replenishment of outlets using product inventory, historic and/or planned sales information at the point-of-sales (POS). CPFR focuses on a close cooperation between retailer and manufacturer. ECR focus on the customer-facing reaction on customer responses in logistics, sales and promotions. 

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