Reagents and Consumables Management and Demand Decision Support System

The medical examination is a crucial step among medical behaviours. To guarantee the quality of examination, inventory management of reagents and consumables is also a requiring groundwork, besides keeping the proper function of examining works. However, it is difficult for the staff to effectively...

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Published in2014 International Symposium on Computer, Consumer and Control pp. 1167 - 1170
Main Authors Tzu-Chuen Lu, Shih-Chieh Lai, Chun-Ya Tseng
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2014
Subjects
decision support
Demand forecasting
Drugs
forecasting model
Hospitals
Inventory management
Laboratories
medical laboratory
Predictive models
Smoothing methods
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Summary:The medical examination is a crucial step among medical behaviours. To guarantee the quality of examination, inventory management of reagents and consumables is also a requiring groundwork, besides keeping the proper function of examining works. However, it is difficult for the staff to effectively manage reagents of various categories and complex packages. The laboratory we cooperated has no any forecasting and decision support system, purchasing is totally based on personal experience of purchasers. When newcomer is in charge of purchasing, the exceeding purchasing results in hoard and overdue reagents or the omission of the fluctuating usage of specific reagents results in deficiency and standstill of the work which are commonly situations appeared. Thus we are combing the forecasting model developed by scholars Liao Yueh Hsiang et al. to calculate the demand of each reagent.
DOI:10.1109/IS3C.2014.303