STORAGE DESIGN AT THE SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF VARBERG HOSPITAL

Abstract

This thesis was written with the purpose of designing a new storage facility at the Surgery Department of Varberg Hospital. The authors came up with the general possible solutions of the problem despite of a number of assumptions that had to be made during the early stage of the project. These solutions concern such issues as the alternative locations of the storage within the limits of the new department building, process flows within the storage, information flow enhancement, and what was of a great importance for the initiators of the thesis research subject – suggestions concerning the types of the storage equipment and physical dimensions of the new storage. While performing the study the authors came identified a particular problem in the supply chain that connects the Surgery Department with its suppliers. The ideas of how to improve the supply chain efficiency can also be regarded as the result of the thesis. However, this area requires deeper research initiative and did not receive extensive attention in the present work. Hospital logistics is one of the new directions of logistics development. Working with the department’s material and information flows required that the authors combine the extensive knowledge of basic logistics and an indepth understanding of health care sector specifics. The working process opened a new angle of logistics knowledge for the research team and made the creation of this thesis an interesting and unique experience.