Pharmaceutical Distribution

Code:

MI074162

Acronym:

DTFARM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Science

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Pharmaceutical Technology Laboratory
Course/CS Responsible:	MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MICF	77	Official Curriculum	4	-	4	52	108

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Pharmaceutical Distribution Purpose: To provide general notions of Pharmaceutical Distributions with special focus on operational management and strategic planning of Pharmaceutical Distribution.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that students contact with the reality that they will find in the labour market, so that during class teoric practice had the opportunity to attend lectures by frames, specialized in several areas of Pharmaceutical Distribution: best practices, Logistics, Human Resources, Information systems, management and Marketing.

Working method

Presencial

Program

. Pharmaceutical Distribuiton – Legal Environment 1.1.Definition and Basic Concepts 1.2.Definition of Logistics and Supply Chain 1.3.The elements of Supply Chain 1.4.Activities and Logistics 1.5.Logistics Trade-Off’s 1.6.Customers Services -Stocks availability -Delivery deadlines -Delivery frequences -Programed Deliverys -Deliverys reliability Wharehouse Organization 1.7.Layouts types -Wharehouse – type I -Wharehouse type - U 1.8.Stocking and products rotation principles -Capacity utilization -Flows minoration -Random and fixed placements control -Protection, safety and environmental guarantee -Systems and Equipments -Automatization: When? Where? How much? Tecnologies -Bar Codes -Radiofrequence -Electronic Data Transfer 1.9.Wharehouse operations -Entrance -Stocking -Packages preparations -Expedition -Exit 1.10.Stocking Costs Buying 1.11.Demand predition -Prediction methods 1.12.Buying strategies 1.13.Buying management 1.14.Suppliers selections Stocks Management 1.15.stocks types 1.16.Stocks rotations 1.17.Stocks costs 1.18.Classificação dos Produtos – Análise ABC 1.19.Economic buying quantities -Quantity discounts 1.20.Revision Period 1.21.Ordering Point 1.22.Stocking level 1.23.Safety stock 1.24.Stocks control systems -Contínous revision -Periodic revision -Pratical Models -Managed by Suppliers -Continous supply Distribution 1.25.Routes progrmations -Distance matrices -Savings matrices 1.26.Management and optimizatiion of implemented routes 1.27.Routes scaling, vehicles and drivers 1.28.Own vehicles vs rented vehicles 1.29.Distribution costs Perfomance levels 1.30.Service levels 1.31.Use of available resources -workers -space -Equipments 1.32.Stock levels 1.33.Productivity 1.34.Operational costs 2. Future tendences

Mandatory literature

• Carvalho, José Cresto de; Logística e Gestão da Cadeia de Abastecimento, Edições Sílabo, 2010
• Reis, Rui Lopes dos; Manual de Gestão de Stocks – Teoria e Prática, , Editorial Presença, 2008

Complementary Bibliography

• Chase, Richard; Jacobs, Robert; Aquilano, Nicholas; Operations Management for Competitive Advantage,, McGraw-Hill, 2006
Richards, Gwynne, ; Warehouse Management: A Complete Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse, Kogan Page, 2011

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretic Classes: 2 hours week Oriented Papers : Optional - individual Theoretic-practic Classes : 2 hours weekField Project: Visit to a Wharehouse Pharmaceutical Distribution

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
	Exame		100,00
	Total:	-	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Frequência das aulas
	Estudo autónomo
	Estudo autónomo
	Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

- Student attendance to the classes is mandatory. Those students whose attendance is lower than 3/4 of the classes predicted. - Attendance to Theoretical classes is not compulsory

Calculation formula of final grade

Final grad is obtained by final examination and individual performance In cases of oral exams, the grade is given according to the students perfomance in that exam.

Examinations or Special Assignments

 

In class Teorico-practice students will have to respond to a test with Theoretical classroom issues. The average marks in all tests carried out at TP ´ s will have to be equal to or greater than 9.5 values. Thus, students will be exempted from the final examination. Otherwise, they will have to perform the final examination on the date stipulated

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

- The exams for the special regime students are carried out in accordance with that established in the applicable legislation for each specific situation.

Classification improvement

- The student has the right to request the repeat of the final exam tests to improve the mark in the resource period of the academic year in which he/she carried out those tests or in one of the normal or resource periods in the course of the two following academic years. - The repeat of the tests to improve the mark can be undertaken only once per subject. - The final subject classification will be the higher of those obtained in the two tests carried out.

Observations

Previous knowledges of subjects focused in Management and Pharmaceutical Organization