CENTRAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

PHARMACY DEPARTEMENT
Drug supply Management (DSM)
Assignments on Forecasting/Quantifications of Medicine requirements
Question- i.

Table 1: Number of Zidovudine tablets consumed per month

Questions: Assuming the review period is 9 months,

1. Calculate the total consumption during the review period

2. What is the number of days out of stock during the review period?
3. What is the Average monthly consumption?

Question-ii
You are required to quantify Cotrimoxazole 960 mg Tabs for your Health Facility. The following
information is available;
• Total population the facility serves: 4,000,000
• Attendance at the facility per year is 3,500,000
• 6% of these are pregnant women attending antenatal care
• 30% of the facility’s attendance are adults in the HIV clinic
• Cotrimoxazole is taken by all HIV positive patients for O.Is prophylaxis. Adults take one double
strength tablet daily.
• Cotrimoxazole is procured in pack size of 1000 tablets.

How many packs should be purchased for the following year? Show how you arrived at this answer.

Fikadu Deme (B.Pharm, MBA-HCSM)

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PHARMACY DEPARTEMENT
Drug supply Management (DSM)
Question - iii.

Table 2: Number of Efavirenz tablets consumed per month

Use the above data from a bin card to solve the following questions:

1. Calculate the total consumption during the review period

2. What is the number of days out of stock during the review period?
3. What is the review period in months?
4. What is the Average monthly consumption?

Fikadu Deme (B.Pharm, MBA-HCSM)

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PHARMACY DEPARTEMENT
Drug supply Management (DSM)
Question - iv.

a. What is the Medicine (A/L) needed per treatment episode for each age groups?
b. What is the Paracetamol needed per treatment for each age groups?
c. There was 1000 facility attendances at the health facility in during the last year separated into two
categories: under five years of age 200 and the rest over five years of age. Calculate the quantity of
medicines(A/L and Paracetamol) needed for each health problem for one year.

Fikadu Deme (B.Pharm, MBA-HCSM)

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PHARMACY DEPARTEMENT
Drug supply Management (DSM)
Question – V.

The following data has been collected from a bin card in a store. Use these data to answer questions “a “
to “e”.

April 2012 2 x 1,000 tablets

May 2012 4 x 1,000 tablets

June 2012 2 x 1,000 tablets

July 2012 2 x 1,000 tablets

August 2012 3 x 1,000 tablets

September 2012 3 x 1,000 tablets

a. What is the Average monthly consumption?

b. If the lead time is three months, what is the lead time consumption?
c. If the safety stock level is three months, what is the safety stock quantity required?
d. What is the appropriate reorder quantity?
e. If the stock on hand is 9000 tablets and stock ordered but not yet received is 3000, what is the

total quantity to order for 6 months?

Fikadu Deme (B.Pharm, MBA-HCSM)

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PHARMACY DEPARTEMENT
Drug supply Management (DSM)

Vi
Question -

Enter the following transactions on the stock card below:

In January 20012, “X” Clinic received from the QE II hospital 60 tins of a new item in the
store called Niverapine 60 mg tablets. During January, two tins of 500 tablets were issued to
the dispensing area. In February, five tins were issued, and in the next two successive months,
six and seven tins were issued respectively. Finally during the last four months, six, eight, nine
and ten tins were issued, respectively.
a) What is the average monthly consumption of niverapine?________________________________
b) Assuming the lead time is one month, what is the request indicator? ____________________
c) Assuming the lead time is one month, what is the quantity to be ordered? ______________
d) Assuming the lead time is two months, what is the quantity to be ordered? ______________

Fikadu Deme (B.Pharm, MBA-HCSM)

 CENTRAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
PHARMACY DEPARTEMENT
Drug supply Management (DSM)

Fikadu Deme (B.Pharm, MBA-HCSM)