02.C Core Competency: Arrange and display pharm products

• Stock Classification and Coding

  By Therapeutic or Pharmacological Class (function), Product Name in Alphabetical Order (Generic or Brand Names), Dosage Form (usage), Random Bin
• By Therapeutic or Pharmacological Class

  • Can be used for larger stores that carry multiple stocks per class • Can also be used for smaller stores and facilitieswhere the store-keeper is also the dispenser
• Product Name in Alphabetical Order (Generic or Brand Names)


  • Attractive in stores with smaller number of items
• Dosage Form

  Useful for storage in warehouses
• Random Bin

  Code is used that denotes a unique storage space ID
• Commodity Codes


  These are based on a unique article code such as in: • The WHO technical specifications • UNICEF stock codes • Philippine Standard Commodity Classification
• Location Codes


  Codes that are independent of the article code and is similar to the Random bin principle
• Location Codes

  Correct storage temperatures • Correct security levels • Product flammability • Building where the product is located • Pack size • Pharmaceutical form
• Assigning Codes

  Article codes can be designed to specify therapeutic class, clinical indication,, level of use, location, or any other relevant data
• Assigning Codes advantages


  Storekeeping staff do not need to have specific knowledge of pharmaceutical names and therapeutic uses • Changes in national medicines list can easily be introduced by assigning unique article codes to new products • Article codes work well in a computerized system
• Arrangement of Pharmaceutical Products

  Common practice: • Therapeutic category, dosage form or alphabetical order within those categories • Generic or Brand Names, also alphabetically arranged
• easiest common practice on the Arrangement of Pharmaceutical Products

  • Therapeutic category
• Arrangement of Pharmaceutical Products


  Therapeutic category, dosage form or alphabetical order within those categories, Generic or Brand Names, Treatment rooms and medicines trolley carts/kits, Liquids for internal use must be separated from those for external use
• Treatment rooms and medicines trolley carts/kits


  Should preferably by therapeutic class
• • Liquids for internal use must be separated from those for external use

  topical (red) vs oral (white)
• Planogram


  Visual diagram used as a guide for pharmacies in arranging products on the shelves or a store layout
• • Some factors that affect a planogram’s layout:

  • Preferred arrangement of the establishment • Dosage form and storage requirements • Fast-moving products • Promotional materials/Merchandising agreements with manufacturers
• Preferred arrangement of the establishment


  catered to the needs of the people
• Dosage form and storage requirements


  based on conditional needs of medicines (temperature factors)
• Fast-moving products


  easily accessible
• Promotional materials/Merchandising agreements with manufacturers


  sales, bulk buying, deals
• Roles of the Pharmacist Assistant

  Knowledge on Sound-Alike, Look-Alike Drugs (SALADs)
• (SALADs)

  Sound-Alike, Look-Alike Drugs
• Roles of the Pharmacist Assistant

  • High Alert Medications (HAMs) identification, and proper placement of labels/stickers
• (HAMs)

  High Alert Medications
• Sound-Alike, Look-Alike Drugs (SALADs)

  rhyming with each other, packaging similarities
• High Alert Medications (HAMs)


  has narrow margin of safety, usually in red
• Roles of the Pharmacist Assistant

  • Application of the practice of FEFO/FIFO
• FEFO/FIFO


  first expiry/first in, first out
• Roles of the Pharmacist Assistant

  Maintenance of the orderliness of stock arrangements, including its regular and timely replenishment (proper labelling, price tags)
• tall man lettering


  to distinguish differences between two medicines