DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTER PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE (A CASE STUDY OF OSCO PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE WARRI, DELTA STATE)

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTER PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE (A CASE STUDY OF OSCO PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE WARRI, DELTA STATE)

ABSTRACT

            The need to develop a system that would improve the management of stocked pharmaceutical items in the pharmacy became beatable due to some set backs experienced by the current operations of pharmaceutical establishment.

            The information got from the staff of the pharmacy and head of Osco pharmaceutical centre, Warri, Delta State, has been most useful in developing a program that would achieve the aim of this project.

            This project would be useful to both large and small pharmacy establishments and other private business that deals with managing stock items.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page

Abstract

Tables of contents

List of table, List of figures

Table of symbols

CHAPTER ONE

1.1       Aim of pharmacy stock control

1.2              Scope of study

1.3              Objective

1.4              Statements of the problems

1.5              Assumptions

1.6              Definition of terms

CHAPTER TWO

Literature Review: Non- Computer approach based stock control

2.2            Computer as aid to stock control system

CHAPTER THREE

3.1       System Analysis

3.2       Why stock control

3.3       Manual Approach to stock control

3.4       Manual ordering of goods

3.5       Flowchart of the manual ordering of goods

3.6       Placing an order and values of goods manually

3.7       Flowcharts of placing an order and sales of goods

3.8       How goods are received into store

3.9       Flowchart of how goods are received in store

3.10     Weakness of existing system

            Organization  chart

CHAPTER FOUR

4.1       System design

4.2       The input system

4.3       The processing system

4.4       The description and organisation

4.5              Physical data mode

CHAPTER FIVE

System Implementation

4.1       Menu processing

4.2       File maintenance

4.3       Transactions

4.4              Reports

CHAPTER SIX

Documentation

CHAPTER SEVEN

Recommendation and Conclusion

TABLE OF SYMBOLS

INTRODUCTION

            This project is based on the pharmacy control of private practitioners. Pharmacy is an establishment, which takes the responsibility of manufacturing and trading drugs and medical related products. The designing and implementation of a computerized pharmacy stock control involves a critical analysis of the existing system, discover where the problems is.

            The aim of any study is to design a system, which keeps and controls the movement of stocked items in the pharmacy. The system produces various reports of the information of stocked-items, the suppliers and various dispensaries.

            However procedures towards achieving the aim are not with free especially the hierarchical analysis. To be able to manage information adequately does not imply that they are efficient. The centre of interest would be surrounded by the computerized according system full of tediousness in their prolonged procedure in coveting raw date into human and material resources. Time is also lavished. Notwithstanding, the results of this processing are hardly reliable sometimes due to possible errors, which sets in a result of human nature of inconsistency.

            The problem also extends to storage and retrieved. From the research done about the problem, it has been found that the manual problems and obstacles could be totally eliminated or at least reduced to a very large extent by using a well designed modern system such as computer. With computer programmes, this elongated procedure could be automated to avoid duplication and redundancy.

CHAPTER ONE

1.1   AIM OF PHARMACY STOCK CONTROL

            In any single country, design and implementation of a computer pharmaceutical the pharmaceutical industry operates in a multifaceted and highly intricate environment, which becomes extremely complex when viewed in an international context. This highly involved operating environment has in itself created some of the misunderstandings, misconceptions of the pharmaceutical industry and its activities and has precipitated many enquires into the operations of the industry.

            To computerize the present and to plan adequately for the future, it is “Sina qua non” to know how the industry involved and the complex interrelated environments within which the industry currently operates and trends of these environment. This study, which is necessary, has a historical and morphological analysis to support the evaluation.

            Almost all the industries depend on plant, animals and internals for raw material. The pharmaceutical industry today uses in addition synthesized chemicals from natural occurring product as well as completely synthetic product as a basic of producing ingredient that will be computerized for a better active production.

            Performance in growth vectors is extremely difficult to measure since few comparies produces growth and profitability data for public consumption because those few comparies are good quality drugs which has price controls, direct and costly consumer promotions and long product.

            Firms diversify when their objectives can no longer be met within the product. This project or work is basically defensive and designed to avoid declares in demand, competitive pressures and product the obsolesce.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTER PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE (A CASE STUDY OF OSCO PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE WARRI, DELTA STATE)