Business & Management Studies

Abstract

Stock control methods are the proceedings that help many institutions and organizations to increase their profitability and use of resources or materials more efficiently and rationally. The results of the effective inventory control methods differ for each institution in terms of the expected benefit, necessity and the cost of materials. In the literature, various stock control methods have been implemented in various institutions and organizations and are still being implemented. In this study, ABC and VED analysis methods, which are widely used in the hospitals and other sectors where uncertainty and dynamism are relatively high, were applied for the surgery room of Cukurova University Hospital in Adana. The analysis was applied by taking into consideration of number of 806 consumables and evaluated based the month of January. ABC and VED analysis was performed for the consumables in the surgery room, and the ABC VED matrix table was created by crossing the two tables of ABC and VED analysis. The materials purchased for January were divided into 3 main categories based on the ABC VED matrix table, and the ratio of Category I with the highest cost and importance to the total cost was found to be 82.36 Per cent. The ratio of the materials in Category II and Category III to the total material costs is 16.99 Per cent and 0.64 Per cent, respectively. Based on the results, suggestions were made for the surgery rooms consumables of the Cukurova University Hospital.