Pharmaceutical Inventory Management Issues in Hospital Supply Chains
研究了印尼一家公立医院的药品库存管理实践，发现库存过多、预测方法不当和IT支持不足三大问题，提出连续审查的(s,Q)政策可将肿瘤药物库存价值降低50%。
The primary focus of the healthcare sector is to provide patients with the best quality of care. While the healthcare cost is keep on growing, effect ive healthcare supply chain should be achieved to reduce some unnecessary costs. To address this issue, this study aims to examine inventory management practice in one of Indonesian public hospital and focus on the role o f i nventory to drive hospital supply chain performance. Th ree major issues regarding inventory management practice has been identified such as overstock, unjustified forecasting technique and lack of IT support. Proposed (s,Q) policy using continuous review can reduce by 50% total inventory value on hand of oncology medication. Among several forecasting technique that's presented, Holt's model appears to be the best adapted for oncology medication. Future study is needed to simu late the outlook condition using proposed policy. By imp lement ing a new inventory policy that cope all the constraints and problems will help hospital to manage its pharmacy inventory in effective and efficient way.