Zero Inventory as the Aim Which Hospitals Pursue in Drug Management
Zero Inventory as the Aim Which Hospitals Pursue in Drug Management
1. Background and significance of zero inventory in drug management
As a special commodity supplied to commodity (patients), and one of the main pathways for hospital service, the supply and demand of drugs is continual and uncertain. For this reason, more attention should be paid to drugs’ management including purchase, storage, pricing and marketing et al. Cost of drugs which is the main medical treatment costs takes up so many funds as to become a source of the increasing manage burden of hospitals. So it is necessary to do a further research to make sure about the current situation and find some effective countermeasures in order to solve these problems.
1.1 The background of zero inventory management modes in hospitals
With the speeding up of economic globalization, information networking and the developing of stream industry, medicine and health reform in
1.2 The significance of zero inventory management modes in hospitals
The aim of zero inventory is to obtain maximum advantage with minimum fund, which is significant for reducing costs and raising competitive strength during the management of hospital.
2. The investigation
2.1 Contents of the investigation
The survey is targeted at the following objects:
(1)Drug administration of some medical institutions located in the colleges in the city of
(2)Drug administration of
(3)The management condition of narcotic drugs in the city of
(4)The management condition of drugs in the second People’s Hospital in the
The emphases of the survey:
(1) To learn about the current situation of drug storage management in
Successful experience and existing problems in the process of administrating drugs;
Comparison and contrast between zero inventory strategy and traditional drugs management strategy.
(2) Analysis towards the experience and problems in hospital medicine inventory management.
By the means of investigating individual regions and learning about their managerial experience, measures and existing problems as well as analyzing the cause，empirical information and data are offered so as to put forward solution strategies and a specific reference is offered.
(3) Possibility of drug zero inventory management in hospitals.
(4) Offering of practical channels to achieve zero inventory in hospitals
The ultimate goal of a study or investigation is to provide basis for administrating reform. Investigation pointing to several regions and hospitals is for the purpose of offering fundamental ways to achieve zero inventory management mode and specific practical schemes.
Steps of the survey:
(1) Formulating the plan of the survey.
(2) Getting information and taking as detailed records as possible about the situation of the investigated objects.
(3) Data arrangement and statistic analysis.
(4) Drawing conclusions from the analysis.
3. Results and conclusions of the investigation
3.1 Results of the investigation
3.2 Disadvantage of traditional drugs management
Although with the wide-spread networking applications since the new century, stock management in hospitals should be more scientific and standard, there still exist many problems:
(1)Too high purchase cost. While the list price is unrealistically high, on the other hand, there are serious phenomena of commission in the purchase process, which leads to deliberately--improved price.
(2)Excessively high storage cost.
The current funds were reduced;
Circulation of the funds was slow;
Expense of drugs management personnel was high.
(3)Unpredictable purchase cost Generally speaking, purchase cost is in proportion to purchase frequency, but in most hospitals purchase task is often unplanned, which makes purchase cost difficult to control.
3.2 Effects of zero inventory in drugs management
(1) It helps to reduce the total capital that is put in drugs in stock.
(2) It facilitates to quicken the capital circulating rate.
(3)It is also an effective way to avoid the risk of backlog.
(4)It is as well of great help to lesson the stock management expenses.
(5) It is helpful to improve management efficiency.
3.3 Points should be pay attention during the application of zero inventory.
Zero inventory as an effectual measure is helpful during drugs management. However, during the application, attention should be paid in order to avoid unnecessary loss.
(1) Formulating reasonable drug purchase plan.
(2) To consummate the information communicating system through network in order to carry out the unified management of drugs.
(3) Ensure smooth and stable supply of drugs.
(4) Complaisance for explode event.
4. Conclusions
Through the investigation above, we analyzed the problems of drugs management and the situation of zero inventory. Zero inventories in managing drugs is an integrated but complicated model, whose core is to strictly control the amount of the drugs for the purpose of minimize the total stock amount. Although defects still exist during the application, zero inventory mode is the tendency of drugs management development.
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