Drug shelving plan inside the drug prescription center - A case study

Abstract

This research studies drug shelving plan facing the prescription filling center. Since the prescription center is still in its infancy and the center itself has large amount of different kind of drugs, it needs further improvement in drug storage arrangement. It is found that current drug storage method based only on the alphabetical order to be inefficient and ineffective. From data analysis of drug usage and prescription records, we suggest the drugs with high usage be put in storage space with easier access. In addition, most processed prescriptions are for chronic diseases. Based on the correlation analysis, it is recommended that drugs with higher correlation be put closely to reduce pharmacist`s walking distance picking the drugs. It is hoped that pharmacist can fill the prescription with less time and the filling error rate can be reduced.