Strategic Role of Procurement Function on Private Hospital.

Roemani Hospital is one of the private hospitals in the Semarang area. Roemani Hospital procurement activities carried out by the procurement unit. The procurement unit conducts procurement of goods and services to run the Roemani Hospital business process. The Roemani Hospital procurement unit works according to the Roemani Hospital organizing guidelines. However, the performance of the Roemani Hospital procurement unit is only reactive to demand. The procurement unit does not have a strategic role in running the Roemani Hospital business processes. Therefore, it is necessary to assess the procurement maturity level for the Roemani Hospital procurement unit. The assessment was carried out to formulate recommendations for improvement in the Roemani Hospital procurement unit. In this study, the model used is the Supply Management Maturity Model. The model has five assessment characteristics, namely procurement planning, organizational structure of purchasing, process organisation, human resources and leadership, and purchasing controlling. Based on these five characteristics 56 questions were formulated to conduct the assessment. The assessment results show that the Roemani Hospital procurement unit is in stage 2 or Independent. Furthermore, the formulation of recommendations for improvement for the Roemani Hospital procurement unit was carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]