How should the “management of things” be? We carried out a questionnaire survey to find out the facts about the stock control of medical supplies and inventory management system in hospitals affiliated with the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives for Health and Welfare. Questionnaires were sent out to 98 hospitals with not less than 100 beds. Fifty-one hospitals responded. The number of effective replies was 49. We made analyses of the data as best we could, especially the data on the operation of the inventory management system and stock control.(1) After the adoption of an inventory management system, 41% of the hospitals took more than half a year before the system was put on the right track. (2) The system has turned out to be conductive to the streamlining of such work as placing orders, delivery, storing and stocktaking. (3) Concerning the management of the master file in the system, many respondents gave the accuracy of data, prompt processing and working efficiency as the problems yet to be addressed. (4) In the hospitals using an inventory management system, the in-hospital type SPD took 17.7 days in terms of the holding period in the case where users are supposed to control the consumption of medical materials as against 8.3 days in the case where clerks in charge of warehousing deliver medical materials and take on consumption control. (5) About 80% of the hospitals have introduced their own inventory management system in an effort to promote the standardization of materials, purchase materials in proper quantities, carry out inventory and consumption control, and create an efficient supply system.
control ; Consumption of goods ; Management ; Control brand of phenylpropanolamine ; System

The supply center of the Atsumi Hospital handles medicines, medical supplies, slips, stationery, daily necessities, resterilized things, laundries, linen and washing beds among many others. The center is striving to raise the efficiency of the flow of materials within the hospital and undertakes logistics management single-handed. In January 2003, one copier and one lithographic unit out of the total four duplicating and printing machines in the hospital were removed to the suppy center. Since then, the center has been responsible for handling these machines for individual users. How effective this office meanagement system was in saving time, cutting down on costs and increasing the degree of satisfaction felt by employees was examined as part of TQM activities.Between June 2003, when the advance booking system was adopted for the use of the two machines, and January 2004, it was found that the monthly reservation ratio averaged out 38.3%. A questionnaire survey also found that many menbers of the staff were satisfied as they could make good use of time. As regards cost reduction, the monthly rental for the copying machine was curtailed to ¥57,000. This was made possible as members of the supply center made proper use of the copier and lithography.
Copying Processes ; Economic supply ; Agent ; Central ; Hospitals

At medical fields, how should procurement processes of medical material be? We tried to research that onto Hospitals affiliated with the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives for health and welfare using questionnaire researchmethod to grasp the actual conditions of medical material procurement processes. The research was proceeded taking the hospitals which have more than a hundred beds as the object. The research requested 97 hospitals and fifty-three hospitals responded. From the research, we could get the following results. The enough results to judge as results; implementation of plan of buying budgets 79%, affirmance of clearance asset 89%, clarification of necessity 96%, trial calculation of profitability and productivity 98%, research for the use utility after adoption 76%, supplement of a job lot 91%, consideration of safety 96%, prime cost dropby joint purchase 61%. On the other hand, it is considered that following things are not enough results;document audit with suppliers' business outline and supplier record 34%, purchasing administrator's lack of acknowledgements of medical material 55%, dealing with immovable stock in subsequent occasion after changes of doctors 41%, efficient ability as in analysis of time by purchase products 59%, transaction expenditure of wastes 46%, reduction of labour by joint purchasing 59%. On the whole, it may be said that hospitals, which have purchase board , are trying to select products from various sides. However, it cannot be said that Secretariat's knowledge a bout medical product are not good enough to selectit. Therefore, deliberating with participants to the committee is important andclue. In this case, substance should be described visually and objectively as in a chart graph. It may bring us excellent purchasing on medical products by consideration of selecting standard.
Research ; Materials ; seconds ; Medical ; Joints