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Academic Sciences
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...