Cost Reduction Effect Produced by Original SPD (Supply, Processing and Distribution) System
10.2185/jjrm.52.762
- Author:
Tetsuya AKUTSU
;
Yumiko ICHIMURA
;
Takao SUGIYAMA
;
Hiroshi SAWAHATA
;
Syuhei SUZUKI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Insurance;
System;
Reduction - action;
Effective;
Original
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
2003;52(4):762-765
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
As a management improvement tool useful for cost containment and adaptable to the trend of reform in recent years, we introduced the SPD system of medical materials. Since there had been no precedent for the introduction of the SPD system in the hospitals affiliated with Kouseiren and even for the dealer it was the first trial, an original system was built. The quantity of materials in stock was fixed by entrusting, so-called the shelf control system. This system has been left in charge of one hospital employee and one individual employed by the dealer.The condition at the time when this system was introduced was not to increase personnel but to lower costs. The maintenance costs of this system were as cheap as 137,700 yen per month on a five-year lease. As a result, the quantity of inventory at the time of the term-end settlement of accounts reduced by about 18 million yen. Moreover, in marked contrast with increased income, the amount of money expended in the purchase of medical materials decreased from that in the pervious year. Though the number of items used in each department has increased by 480 items now from the start, the inventory is 0 yen.This system is very useful especially for the inventory management of specific insurance medical materials, because it can take in insurance claim data on MO (Magneto Optical Disk), compare it with the purchase data of materials and check the income-and-expenditure balance of specific insurance medical materials immediately. The sum of the amount of temporary stock curtailment for the past two years and six months and the annual purchase curtailment amount was 93,380,000 yen.It is concluded that the introduction of the SPD system has contributed much to the improvement of inventory management.
