Modeling Performance Issues in Supply Chains Using PETRI-NETS

Area of research
Modeling

and Simulation of Healthcare Pharmaceutical sector: A Petri Nets Approach

Motivation
Increasing

services Curative health services not accessible to rural populations High tech curative services not free even in government hospitals

cost of curative medical

Motivation
Need

for a rational distribution of medication consists in assuring consumers to receive the right product, in the right quantity and specifications, and in a reasonable time, obtaining the best cost efficiency. The drug distribution procedure has various stages, starting with a prescription and ending with the administration of the drug to the patient.

Motivation

All the steps along the procedure depend on the various health care professionals, and are directly connected. Thus, the prescription is the Doctor's responsibility, the dispensing is the pharmacist's responsibility, the distribution or delivery to the floor or sector where the drug is needed is the responsibility of a care-giver, and the administration as well as patient monitoring are the responsibility of the nurse.

Problem statement
To

model the medication distribution process in Health-care sector & to improve distribution times and costs.

Approach
The

organization of the pharmaceutical products and their installation must satisfy a certain number of aims such as the accessibility to the stored articles, the reduction in time and the preparation errors To reduce medication related errors , and cost reduction related with minimizing medication spoil

 the

objective of this work is the rationalization of medication costs that assures the process errors due to drug distribution are reduced. This can be very useful in the future understanding and developing of similar case situations.

Petri-nets

To model the problem using the Petri Net formalism, and to extract information and knowledge from those models through simulation. Petri Nets is a powerful and suitable design tool to build mathematical models to describe the system behavior of event-driven systems, as the medication distribution process is.

Tool to be used

The Petri nets models and simulation will be performed by using the Yasper software tool. It is a very powerful tool that allows users to create either deterministic or stochastic Petri nets, (in this particular work stochastic nets were used). The models will be simulated under different scenarios (e.g., number of people dispatched to an order), and the results will allow to verify eventual delays, buffer needs, staff re-location solutions, etc.

Flow diagram
Medical cabinet request Pharmacy or pharmacist Validation of request preparation

transportation

Reception & storage

Yasper (ELEMENTS)
Sr.no. 1. Symbol Description Place (case sensitive) Transition Sr.no 6. Symbol Description Collector 2. 7. Subnet

3.

Arc

8.

Timed Transition Place (case insensitive) Input and Output of a Subnet

4.

Inhibitor Arc

9.

5.

Emitter

10.

Yasper

Performance Parameters: work time = the average amount of processing time spent on a complete case by tasks; if parallel processing was done on the case, the processing times of all case tokens are added together
wait time = the average amount of time a case was kept waiting, i.e. during which it had one or more tokens and no transition was processing any of them cycle time = the average amount of time a case was in the system, measured from leaving its emitor to being completed at its collector cost = the average processing cost of a case

Modeling & Simulation results

A list of pharmaceuticals chosen:

Divs Laboratories Ltd. Eurolife Healthcare Pvt . Ltd. Merril pharma Pvt. Ltd Pure & cure healthcare Pvt Ltd Helax Healthcare Bajaj Pharmaceuticals Endolabs healthcare Pvt lLd Amideep Pharmaceuticals Spectrum formulation Pvt. Ltd. Shreya Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Stafford lab Pvt. Ltd.

Timeline

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