Work Flow Research

Pharmacy Workshops Pty Ltd has conducted time and motion study on dispensary work flows.

80:20 Dispensing

The research reveals that dispensary products are most efficiently stored in high and low volume sections.

Analysis of dispensary product usage reports reveal that 20% of products fill 80% of prescriptions.

Thus placing these 20% of products closest to the prescription assembly point reduces the time taken to select products.

The research reveals that significant time savings can be achieved by storing dispensary products on sloping shelves.

Sloping shelves gravity feed products to the front, thus creating space at the back of the shelves ready for back filling.

The time savings from using sloping shelves were detailed in an article in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy.