Assessment of the determinants towards inventory control performance in public hospitals in Tanzania: A case of selected public hospitals in Dar es Salaam region
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Mzumbe University
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This dissertation was about to analyze the determinants towards inventory control performance in public hospitals in Tanzania. The specific objectives were to examine medical stock storage systems for hospitals and their influence on inventory control performance, to assess the effect of staff competence on inventory control performance, and to establish the suppliers’ influence on performance of inventory control. The study was conducted in selected public hospitals located in Dar es Salaam region. From the population of 198 a sample of 99 respondents was obtained. The methods of data collection were questionnaire and interviews the selection techniques of the respondents were purposive sampling and simple random sampling. This study involved mixed strategies which were qualitative and quantitative analysis .From the study, it was observed that the engagement of medical stock storage system which influence inventory control performance were storage location, size of warehouse, warehouse layout. Due to analysis, the researcher found that medical storage systems have significantly influence on inventory control performance. However, the analysis showed that training for incoming employees and development for existing employees are important to any organization. The suppliers which brought about influence on inventory control were capability, and delivery influence. The analysis showed suppliers have insignificantly influence on inventory control performance. The recommendations are management should make sure that they have competent staff and develop them who are in-house so as to help in the running of the system. The public hospital and other organization should take an action to improve communication and information system to assist in monitoring of inventory especially between vendors and public hospitals. Also, Organizations should allow their employees to attend training provided by PSPTB so as to improves their staff professionalism and hence obtain value for money
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A Dissertation submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Masters of Science in Procurement and Supply Chain Management (Msc.PSCM) of Mzumbe University of Tanzania. 2019
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Inventory Control Performance, Public Hospitals, Medical Stock Storage Systems, Human Immune deficiency Virus, Economic Order Quantity, International Cooperation Agency, Medical Stores Department, Maintenance, Repair and Operation, Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Principal Component Analysis, Procurement Management Unit, Region Referral Hospital, Transaction Cost Analysis, World Health Organization, Inventory Control System, Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), Resources Based Theory, Stock Diffusion Theory
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