EOQ Application Analysis Method for Planning Needs Pharmacy Drugs in hospitals Tasikmalaya Installation

Abstract

To support qualified services at a hospital, it needs to make a planning efficiently and effectively in order to fulfill the necessity of medicines. Planning of medicines necessity at Installation of Tasikmalaya Public Hospital had been made based on the method of consumption and referred to the President’s Decree No. 80 year 2003. In fact, number of medicines was not to appropriate with the planning. Aim of this research was to find out the steps of planning for supplying medicines, to analyze the implementation of Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) in the planning of supplying medicines, and to identify the effect of supplying using EOQ method towards availability of medicines, and to identify the effect of supplying using EOQ methods towards availability of medicines at the hospital. Beside that, this research was to know efficiency of supplying medicines with and without implementing EOQ method, and to describe the factors, which had to be provided more attention if EOQ method was implemented in the planning including inputs for supplying medicines. This was observational research using qualitative method and cross sectional approach. Collection of data used observation and interview. Result of this research shows that five types of medicines are used based on implementation of ABC analysis namely Cefotaxim inj, ATS inj, Piracetam inj, Dextrose 5%, Cefriaxon inj which percentages of purchasing consecutively are 22.7%, 20.50%, 13.37%, 10.65% and 9.71%. Furthermore, calculation is performed using EOQ method. Based on the result of calculation, efficiency in the planning of supplying medicines, for Cefotaxim inj is equal to 27%, ATS inj (19%), Piracetam inj (22%), Dextrose 5% (15%), and Cefriaxon inj (17%). Sumber Utama : www.mikm.undip.ac.id