| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 醫學研究所 === 96 === Because of the continued growth of medical expenditure, the Bureau of National Health Insurance has been making a series of policies to control the growth of medical expenditure. In view of limited revenue, hospitals emphasize more on cost control. In the cost structure of a hospital, materials cost is the second place.
It should be the same important for inventory management in hospitals about inducing inventory cost and higher service level. Many researches have proved that EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) /ROP (ReOrder Point) model can decrease total inventory cost, but few discuss the impact on stockout. Especially after the information technology industry quickly developing, the limits of apply EOQ are no longer a big question.
This research employs the approach of case-study and concept of simulation. The performance of the central medicine warehouse (include days of stockout) after implementing the EOQ/ROP model is compared with before. On the other hand, the inventory management of medical center by questionnaire survey shows half of the replied hospitals decide the inventory level with experience, only 40% monitoring the stockout.
The average inventory of the 40 target items decreased 33%, and turnover times rose from 397% to 595% per month. The stockout increased due to the amount of application from customers was far from its real need. Thus, based on the results, the material management model of the study could improve the performance of the hospital material management.
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