Determinants of Pharmaceuticals Inventory Management Effectiveness in Dire Dawa City Administration Public Health Facilities

The study was conducted with the aim of examining the effect of stock record data management, staff competency, and information technology application on pharmaceuticals inventory management effectiveness in Dire Dawa City Administration public health facilities. The researcher used descriptive and correlation research design methods where a total of 75 samples were selected by a probability method of simple random sampling techniques from pharmacy department (pharmacy heads, warehouse managers, drug supply managers and dispensers) and health facility heads .Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected for analysis where the quantitative data was analyzed by SPSS version 20 via descriptive and inferential statistics. It was found that stock record management staff competency and application of information technology have positive significant effect on pharmaceuticals inventory management effectiveness of public health facilities in Dire Dawa City administration. A hypothesis test resulted in the rejection of all the three null hypotheses and was concluded that stock record data management, staff competency and IT application all positively affect the pharmaceuticals inventory management effectiveness of Dire Dawa City Administration Public health facilities significantly. Therefore the regional health bureau, public health facilities’ management and other stakeholders should give due emphasis for stock record data management, staff competency and IT application in order that the pharmaceuticals inventory management effectiveness will be improved.