November 1, 2007
OR logistics: Learning from FedEx
At 2 am on a cold morning last year, a group of OR leaders from Johns Hopkins stood in the FedEx logistics center in Memphis. They wanted to see what they could learn that could be applied to moving patients through the OR. Two of them also visited Wal-Mart's distribution center in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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