This document outlines a quality improvement project to reduce variations in the procurement process at a hospital from October 2015 to March 2016. The project team collected data on procurement variations and identified issues like unplanned requirements, brand deviations, and consumption pattern changes. Their plan was to reduce variations to 0% by improving the procurement process, demand projection tool, and vendor follow up. Corrective actions like scheduling the projection tool, following up with vendors, and timely payments were implemented. Data showed reductions in variations over time. The conclusion states that using the PDCA model helped achieve the goal and increased the supply chain department's efficiency.
2. Introduction
Supply chain department in the hospitals are
the veins of the organization through which all
the requirements for patient care like
consumables, medicines and surgical items
are made available at right location right
quantity and at right specifications with more
cost effective
5. Team Member
Mr. Rajesh SCM Head
Mr. Jaypal Deputy Manager SCM
Mrs. Prashanthi V Store Executive
Ms. Pallavi K Purchase Executive
Mr. Prateek Singh Deputy Manager Quality
9. PLAN
AIM
To reduce the variation in the procurement
process to 0%
OBJECTIVE
To improve the procurement process of the
materials in Supply chain department
To project the demand by running the PR tool at
scheduled time
To follow up with the vendor
10. DO (Corrective action)
PR Tool - scheduled a proper slot to run the tool
Proper follow up with the vendor for the pending
items either after the lead time or within the lead
time
PR tool designed and has a track on
Exceptions
Alternates
ROL for VED
Timely payment to vendor
16. Sustenance Plan
The PLAN phase is successfully implemented in
the DO phase, this ACTION has achieved the goal
of the Quality improvement process in the
selected area i.e. to reduce the variation in the
procurement process and is graphically shown in
CHECK phase.
Corrective actions have been implemented across
all the stores and counter checked by HOD on
regular basis
Training of staff on a periodic basis have been
initiated
17. Conclusion
This PDCA model helped the SCM department
to achieve its goal and as its one of the
quality indicator the efficiency of the
department has increased.