Prioritizing Factors Influencing the Logistics Performance of the Hospitals’ Supply Chains in Transferring the Corona Patients

The present study aims at prioritizing the factors influencing the logistics performance of the hospitals’ supply chains in transferring the corona patients using multi-criteria decision-making. The features are weighed and prioritized using the AHP method. The present study has been conducted on 30 corona patients in a pilot format. The results obtained from the aforesaid study would be applied to determining the complete and final study sample volume. Based on the literature review and study backgrounds, the factors influencing the logistics performance of the hospitals’ supply chains in transferring the corona patients were extracted; two indices consisting of two aspects were figured out and, regarding these factors’ domestication, 30 experts were asked within the format of a questionnaire to give each of the scores a value based on Likert’s five-point scale. Delphi test results indicated that all of the study’s indices have mean values above 3 so they have acquired the required scores and are confirmed. The pairwise comparisons of the scales and subscales were carried out and the experts (n=30) were provided with the results. After completing the pairwise comparison matrices, the inconsistency rate of each was calculated and it was found that these inconsistency rates are all below 0.1 indicating the stability and consistency of the matrices.Based thereon, amongst the 20 subscales, several transportation times were found in the first rank followed by the services’ assurance and, then, the inventory to sales.