System design of integrated physical management by using time-dependent logistics

Abstract

 Making a good physical management system of materials in a hospital is one of the key factors for the success of the hospital management. It is however very difficult to accomplish this because of several reasons. One of the reasons may come from the characteristics of the hospital that all the materials needed in emergency cases should be available at any time. Preparing a good deal of materials only for this future possibility of use is the main cause of creating dead stock. SPD(Supply Processing and Distribution by suppliers) tactics is sometimes used in this case. It is, however, very difficult to fully incorporate the commercially available bar codes, such as EAN128, since the items supplied by SPD are usually not included in the code tables needed in the physical management system of the hospital. In this paper we developed an integrated physical management system, covering both the supplier's system and that of the hospital. By this new system, all the materials used in the hospital can be controlled by the commercially available bar codes, and a smart mechanism of reducing the dead stocks is also systematized.