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International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ISSN- 0975-1491

Vol 6, Issue 5, 2014

Original Article

PURCHASING AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT BY PHARMACIST OF A PRIVATE HOSPITAL IN

NORTHEAST OF THAILAND

CHAOWALIT MONTON1,2*, LAKSANA CHAROENCHAI1,2, JIRAPORNCHAI SUKSAEREE1,2

1Sino-Thai

Traditional Medicine Research Center (Cooperation between Rangsit University and Harbin Institute of Technology and

Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine), Rangsit University, Pathum Thani 12000, Thailand. 2Faculty of Pharmacy, Rangsit

University, Pathum Thani, 12000, Thailand.

Email: chaowalit@rsu.ac.th

Received: 25 Mar 2014 Revised and Accepted: 28 Apr 2014

ABSTRACT

Objective: The aim of this study was to improve the purchasing and inventory management system to transparent and checkable manner, before

and after the improved system were compared.

Methods: The retrospective data including rate of approved purchasing documents, rate of inspected products, rate of correct received products,

rate of destroyed or expired products, rate of reserved products, and rate of product shortages during January 2010 to December 2011were

collected. The identified problems of purchasing and inventory management were solved by improving the purchasing and inventory management

system. The key performance indicators during January 2012 to May 2012 were collected. The improved results were compared.

Results: After the purchasing and inventory management system were adopted, rate of approved purchasing documents and rate of inspected

products in the first five months were 100%. Rate of correct received products was higher than 95%. Rate of destroyed or expired products was less

than 0.5%. Rate of reserved products was less than 3 months. Rate of product shortages for all observed five months was less than 1%.

Conclusion: The improved purchasing and stock management system, which has been developed by pharmacists was...