Development of Inventory Management System in Fang Hospital, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

Introduction: Effective inventory management has an effect on purchasing to meet the needs, with adequate quantities, reasonable prices, and on-time. The ABC system is an inventory management and control system that categorizes the importance of products according to their turnover in the year. The system can be applied to hospital inventory management to optimize the management and grouping of inventory materials by priority. Make the material disbursement in the warehouse system more efficient.

Objectives: To study the inventory management system and priority grouping in inventory.

Procedures: Investigation of inventory management system, data collection, data analysis, together with grouping of medical equipment and office supplies by means of ABC Analysis Inventory is divided into three categories: Type A refers to the inventory with the highest turnover value in the year, category B refers to the inventory with medium turnover and category C refers to the inventory with the lowest turnover value during financial year 2020 which analyzed by Frequency, Distribution, and Percentage.

Findings: 492 lists of medical equipment were divided into 71 lists for Group A (14.43%) with 8,646,621.88 baht of payment value (70.71%), 106 lists for Group B (21.55%) with 2,469,446.66 baht of payment value (20.19%), and 315 lists for Group C (64.02%) with 1,113,108.92 baht of payment value (9.10%). As for 200 lists of office supplies, the inventory was divided into 12 lists for Group A (6.00%) with 1,617,452.10 baht of payment value (70.50%), 33 lists for Group B (16.50%) with 470,073.10 baht of payment value (20.49%), and 155 lists for Group C (77.50%) with 206,644.98 baht of payment value (9.01%).

Summary: Each inventory list must have control measures. Inventory lists of Group A must be received priority attention due to its high value, followed by Group B and Group C.