Table 2. Qualitative Analysis of the Interviews.

Themes	Primary Codes
Adopting a sustainable strategy for collective purchasing	Specifying the shopping cart
	Identifying profitable items
	Performing an ABC analysis for shopping
	Targeting purchases of high-turnover items
	Incremental purchasing of critical items with high financial value
Headquarters structure	The need to provide the necessary hardware requirements for the central warehouse
	The need for strategic warehousing for the goods depot
	Pyramidal structure in organizations
	The need for a decision-making body for procurement and distribution planning
	The need for oversight of subsidiaries
	The distinction between purchasing and warehousing in the central office
	The design of a central warehouse suitable for focused management
	Implementation of the necessary support for the delivery of goods to supply centers
Software infrastructure requirements	Potentials to predict consumption
	Potentials to create a transparent online tender among suppliers
	Monitoring inventory, consumption, and waste of resources
	Leveraging electronic records of the health system
	Leveraging the infrastructure of the health information system (HIS)
	Leveraging hospital intelligence management (HIM) infrastructure
	Potentials to control the expiration date
	Online monitoring of supply, distribution, and supply network
	Centralization of invoices issued in the virtual system
	Differentiation of the consumption patterns of medicines by hospital departments
	Unification of product codes
	The need for an integrated software infrastructure
Favorable management requirements	The need for an efficient management team
	The need for a monitoring and performance monitoring unit
	The need for organizational charts and corresponding instructions
	The existence of a pyramidal structure and corresponding management units
Significance of having qualified staff	The need to review employee performance for rewards and punishments
	The prevention of employees becoming inflamed with low efficiency
	The need for continuous staff training
	The need to assign experienced and trustworthy staff to warehouses
Improved storage methods	The need for strategic storage of sensitive medications
	The implementation of good distribution practice and good storage practice guidelines
	Expansion of the physical environment of the central warehouse
	Reducing the amount of storage space in pharmacies