“Integration of Inventory and the Delivery Model for Operational
Efficiency and Minimal WIP in Pune City for QuikPills”
- Miraj Patel 331418
E - PHARMACY
OBJECTIVEPrimary Objective:
• To conduct a market research for finding potential vendors to associate with QuikPills in the area of Kothrud.
• To collect data from local vendors about their inventory, procurement and reordering system, delivery system.
• To prepare an algorithm to optimize the delivery time of the medicine and medical products – Maximum time taken for delivery should be < 2 hours.
Secondary Objective
• To study, find and analyze the problems faced by E – Pharmacy to associate with vendors.
• To find problems and loop holes of E – Pharmacy system faced by vendors.
• To perform competitor analysis
RESEARCH METHEDOLOGIES
Instrument for Data Collection: Personal Interview Questionnaire (Filled by us) Observation
Population: Census: Kothrud No. of Pharmacy: 60
Sample Size Sample: 19 Pharmacy
Sample Selection Method: Judgmental Cluster
Method of Data Collection: Primary Data Collection Secondary Data
Collection
MARKET RESEARCH – KOTHRUD(DATA ANALYSIS)
6%6%
44%
33%
11%
Types of products available at the store
Allopathy, Ayurveda
Allopathy, Ayurveda, Body building sup-pliments, Vaccines and Injectables
Allopathy, Ayurveda, Health equipments, Vaccines and Injectables
Allopathy, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Health equipments, Body building suppliments, Vaccines and Injectables
Allopathy, Ayurveda, Vaccines and In-jectables
11%
89%
Inventory Management
Manual book-keep-ing?Software
100%
Inventory Resupply
Regular re-supply
33%
67%
Awareness about E- Pharmacy
NoYes
33%
67%
Home Delivery
NoYes
67%
33%
Interested/Not Interested
InterestedNot Interested
OPERATIONS
KNN + K – Mean Algorithm
Travelling Salesman Problem (Pune)
Approximate Time Taken: 530 mins
(approx. 9 Hours)
Approximate Distance Covered: 92.3 Km
Min Requirement of Delivery Boys: 8
Travelling Salesman Problem (Kothrud)
Approximate Time Taken: 175 mins
(approx. 3 Hours)
Approximate Distance Covered: 25 Km
Min Requirement of Delivery Boys: 2
Travelling Salesman Problem (Koregaon
Park)
Approximate Time Taken: 215 mins
(approx. 3.6 Hours)
Approximate Distance Covered: 39 Km
Min Requirement of Delivery Boys: 3
Travelling Salesman Problem (Katraj)
Approximate Time Taken: 195 mins
(approx. 3.5 Hours)
Approximate Distance Covered: 35 Km
Min Requirement of Delivery Boys: 3
FINDINGS
Select Kothrud as center: 67% vendors – interested, 33%
• Problem faced by E – Pharmacy to associate with the vendors:• Unawareness• Restriction from association• Wrong perception• Wrong outbreak – being illegal
• Problem faced by vendors and loop holes to be tackled with:• Fake prescription• Reused of prescription
• Considering 3 centers:• Kothrud• Katraj• Koregaon Park
• Requirement : Delivery man - 8, Process time - 1 Hour
RECOMMENDATION
Pharmacist Check Prescription
Blog Link: http://patient.info/doctor/general-prescribing-guidance
https://www.drugs.com/Valid
Call Customer to reconfirm order
Inform about cancellation
Proceed Order
Customer Folder
Vendors
Distributors & Wholesalers
Associated Doctor
Alternative Solution
Listed Medicines
Confirm Order Ready the Order
Send to Customer Call Deliveryman
Picks order and deliver
Target - 7 vendors Associate with a DoctorAssociate with Wholesalers & Distributors
Research Based Recommendations
Operations Based Recommendations
Implement Travelling salesman - Shortest route
Appoint two Pharmacists Send Feedback link
• Right approach
• Commence with operation in Pune
• Implementation of algorithms for software development
• Achieve operational efficiency
• Implementation will minimize – delivery time & WIP
CONCLUSION
Thank You
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