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,
etc.
 Inventory control techniques: Economic Order Quantity,
Reorder Quantity Level, Inventory Turnover etc.
 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