DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB BASED DRUG INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

ABSTRACT Inventory management is one of the necessities of every business institution. Every organization possesses its own method of managing and controlling the inventory system. For a hospital it is paramount because lack of proper drug management can be detrimental to patients’ health and hospital flow. A study conducted at the pharmacy department of FMC, Umuahia showed that there is no proper automated inventory management system in place and the manual paper/pen method is used for drug inventory management. According to the nurses this poses a great problem as files and papers may get destroyed or tempered with. To solve the above problem, a web based drug inventory management system will be developed to automate drug stock and usage. Thi s effective and efficient system therefore will resolve and replace the current system process thereby increasing the hospital’s efficiency. This system should be able to remind the admin (Pharmacists office) about lists of drugs and drug quantity. This system was developed using JavaScript Library (REACT.JS) and MYSQL as the system database. Agile Methodology was therefore used during the system’s analysis.