Efficiency Improvement of Medical Supplies Storage Management: Peritoneal Dialysis Solution Case Study

Abstract

This research aims to improve the area management of storage by using the analysis of goods type with the First In date First Out (FIFO) method to reduce the losses of unproductive or expired goods and including to research the Time Study. The research objectives are to study problem and obstacle of the management of medical supplies storage, and to implement the process to increase the efficiency of medical supplies storage management as a case study of Peritoneal Dialysis Solution. The researcher studied the problem of goods arrangement in the medical supplies storage by Fishbone diagram and found some problem of this arrangement such as the goods arrangement was not tidy, the old and new goods were arrangement on the same area, and included the types of goods were not separated. The research result revealed that the method of First Expire date First Out (FEFO) increased the efficiency of goods search and goods removal. The new arrangement of warehouse layout was convenient and quickly for goods search and the average time of activity process in the storage was reduced to 6.34% with a statistical significance of 0.05.