POD and Urgency Matrix
Prime Care Pharmaceutical Distributor
Problems, Opportunities & Directives Urgency Visibility Benefits Priority Proposed Solution
Performance
It takes 6 working days to deliver the return ASAP High 5,000 5 Develop a new system
medicine in the drugstore.
It takes 9-10 hours to deliver the medicine to
Develop a delivery system with
2 months High 8,000 5
the drugstores all over Bulacan. task scheduler
Information (Input)
Medicine information are captured Develop a new system with bar
ASAP Medium 3,000 5
code scanner
redundantly
Generic name, Brand name, unit, Expiration
Develop a well-organized
3 months High 5,000 5
Date, Lot Number, etc. are not organized medicine information system
Capturing of expiration date are not accurate 2 months High 10,000 5 Develop a new system
Client’s payments are not captured 6 months Medium 10,000 4 Develop a new system
Collecting of payments are captured
6 months High 5,000 4 Moderate Enhancement
redundantly
Problems, Opportunities & Directives Urgency Visibility Benefits Priority Proposed Solution
Output
6 months Medium 5,000 4 Develop a new system
Balance per client can’t produce
List of client can’t produce 2 months Medium 3,000 4 Moderate Enhancement
Expiration date of medicines are not accurate 2 months High 10,000 5 Develop a new system
Master list of medicine is not in a useful
2 months Medium 2,000 3 Moderate Enhancement
format
Economics
Transportation Expenses in delivering Develop a delivery
3 months High 15,000 5
management system
medicines are too high.
Develop medicine information
Prime Care is encountering net loss. 3 months High 20,000 5 and sales monitoring
management system
Efficiency
Day-to-day transaction information are 2 months High 5,000 5 Develop a new system
redundantly input or copied.
Efforts required for encoding the newly
ASAP High 5,000 5 Develop a new system
delivered medicines is excessive
Opportunities
Due to the advertisements and encourage of the government to use generic medicines, Prime Care will increase their sales and
number of clients
Prime Care Pharmaceutical Distributors can supply their own brand of medicines.
Directives
Generics Act of 1988
Republic Act No. 6675
An Act to Promote, Require and Ensure the Production of an Adequate Supply, Distribution, Use and Acceptance of Drugs and Medicines
Identified by their Generic Names
• To promote, encourage and require the use of generic terminology in the importation, manufacture, distribution, marketing, advertising
and promotion, prescription and dispensing of drugs;
• To ensure the adequate supply of drugs with generic names at the lowest possible cost and endeavor to make them available for free to
indigent patients;
• To encourage the extensive use of drugs with generic names through a rational system of procurement and distribution;
• To emphasize the scientific basis for the use of drugs, in order that health professionals may become more aware and cognizant of their
therapeutic effectiveness; and
• To promote drug safety by minimizing duplication in medications and/or use of drugs with potentially adverse drug interactions.
• Republic Act No. 9502
An act providing for cheaper and quality medicines, amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 8293 or the intellectual property code,
Republic Act No. 6675 or the Generics Act of 1988, and Republic Act 5921 or the Pharmacy Law, and other purposes.
Declaration of Policy. - It is the policy of the State to protect public health and, when the public interest or circumstances of extreme
urgency so require, it shall adopt appropriate measures to promote and ensure access to affordable quality drugs and medicines for all.
Pursuant to the attainment of this general policy, an effective competition policy in the supply and demand of quality affordable drugs and
medicines is recognized by the State as a primary instrument.
In the event that full competition is not effective, the State recognizes as a reserve instrument the regulation of prices of drugs and
medicines, with clear accountability by the implementing authority as mandated in this Act, as one of the means to also promote and
ensure access to quality affordable medicines.