Title
Lean healthcare model for increasing the availability of products in pharmaceutical SMEs
Date Issued
27 September 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Association for Computing Machinery
Abstract
Nowadays, retailers in the trade industry are focused on meeting customers’ needs, as their priority is to make as many sales per day as possible. Stockouts lead to unattended sales, which mean loss of income. This endangers the place of the MSBs in the industry. This paper aims to prove that proposing a supply management model will reduce the number of lost sales due to stockouts. For this study, we analyzed three key processes (purchasing, storage and distribution), where we identified problems such as incomplete shipments and unfulfilled POs and replacement requests. To prove the viability of our proposal, a pilot was carried out in a pharmacy that has five dispensing premises and a central warehouse, which improved its stock availability from 82% to 89.5%.
Start page
13
End page
17
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Farmacología, Farmacia
Negocios, Administración
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85076702898
Resource of which it is part
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
ISBN of the container
9781450376532
Conference
5th International Conference on Industrial and Business Engineering, ICIBE 2019 Hong Kong 27 September 2019 through 29 September 2019
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