CLASSIFICATION OF INVENTORY OF MATERIALS AND DRUGS WITH MULTI-CRITERIA SUPPORT TO DECISION: CASE STUDY IN A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
stock, multicriteria, ABC classification, FITradeoff
In order to achieve a good level of functioning, each and every organization needs to define inventory levels appropriate to its supply. In order to corroborate with inventory planning and control, there is a usual classification method known as ABC classification, which categorizes items in stock according to a criterion, which is usually the demand or the monetary value of the item. It can be said that currently classifying items in stock according to a single criterion does not actually represent the stock, and there are other criteria to consider, such as obsolescence and criticality. Thus, the research aims to propose and develop an ABC classification model with the multicriteria analysis method FITradeoff in the stock of materials and medicines of a university hospital in Natal-RN. With this, the aim is to contribute effectively to the organization of the stock of medicines in a university hospital, reaching benefits such as reducing the disparity between the physical and accounting stock, reducing waste with expired medicines, reducing ruptures due to lack of material, reducing the carrying amount of the inventory.