Author: 1Hanson Obiri-Yebaoh
1Accra Polytechnic, School of Business, Department of Purchasing & Supply
Abstract
Stores procedures plays key role in the supply chain management for the achievement of organisational goals. The lack of capacity to select, forecast, and quantify product requirements, and to manage the stores procedures disrupt the distribution of health commodities to the client, in a government health-care such as Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, and the ineffective stores procedures results in low revenue generation. The study is geared towards finding out the stores procedures pertaining to the hospital, while establishing the relationship between stores procedures and revenue generation. The survey method was used to collect data from workers, management, patients and suppliers on the stores management. Some of the weaknesses were ineffective stock procedures, discrepancies in procedures from receiving to the delivery points, among others, while the strengths has to with stock control following various method and there is orderly flow of stock. The research established the relationship between efficient stores management with net income. The study will help academicians and stakeholders gain insights about the stores management theories and concepts, while stakeholders interpret and confirm the strengths and weaknesses for bettering the stores procedures. The way forward will involve management of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital enforcing the stores procedures to the latter in line with required standards, and monitoring the flow of stock and information from receiving section to delivery level efficiently, while improving the human resource capacity building and general management of the hospital to enhance effective revenue generation.
Keywords: Stores Evaluation, Storekeeping, Storekeeping Procedures, Warehouse Ethics
