Title :
Preliminary Study on the Inventory Strategy of Traditional Chinese Medicines
Author :
Wan, Ping ; Sun, Mei-Na ; Wang, Min-Hao
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Life & Environ. Sci., Shanghai Normal Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
The inventory management of traditional Chinese medicines is an important part of GMP and GSP. For pharmaceutical trading enterprises (sales), after the drug delivery before selling, the drugs are mostly stored in the warehouse in order to ensure drug safety, effectiveness and quality control, which are the basic duties of pharmaceutical trading enterprises. How to ensure drug safety, effectiveness and quality control? How to make the drug management process successfully? How to reduce the cost? This paper attempts to explore these problems from the static and dynamic inventory strategy.
Keywords :
distribution strategy; drugs; inventory management; pharmaceutical industry; quality control; warehousing; GMP; GSP; cost reduction; drug delivery; drug management process; drug safety; drugs effectivenes; inventory management; inventory strategy; pharmaceutical trading enterprises; quality control; traditional Chinese medicines; warehouse; Drugs; Educational institutions; Humidity; Inventory management; Marketing and sales; Pharmaceuticals; Quality control; Safety; Stacking; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xi´an
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3876-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICIII.2009.88
