Supply Chain and Inventory Control

• Preparation of Drug lists – High Risk drugs, Emergency drugs, Schedule H1 drugs, NDPS drugs, reserved antibiotics
• Procedures of Drug Purchases – Drug selection, short term, long term, and tender/e-tender process, quotations,
• Inventory control techniques: Economic Order Quantity, Reorder Quantity Level, Inventory Turnover
• Inventory Management of Central Drug Store – Storage conditions, Methods of storage, Distribution, Maintaining Cold Chain, Devices used for cold storage (Refrigerator, ILR, Walk-in-Cold rooms)
• FEFO, FIFO methods
• Expiry drug removal and handling, and disposal. Disposal of Narcotics, cytotoxic drugs Documentation – purchase and inventory