CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

An accurate computer based drug purchasing system helps you produce, store and ship your products more effectively. That’s why computer based drug purchasing system, CDPS is the backbone to good customer service and operations planning. CDPS. allows you to accurately predict future product sales based on past historical information and your future marketing plan. Computer based drug purchasing system uses artificial intelligence and powerful methodology to quickly create very accurate analysis. The software gives you the ability to predict sales by customer, account group, channel, end-item SKU and package. Both weekly and daily analysis are created with lightning speed, instantly updating on the screen. A pharmaceutical drug, also referred to as medicine, medication or medicament, can be loosely defined as any chemical substance intended for use in the medical diagnosis, cure, treatment, or prevention of disease. Medications can be classified in various ways, such as by chemical properties, mode or route of administration, biological system affected, or therapeutic effects. An elaborate and widely used classification system is the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC system). The World Health Organization keeps a list of essential medicines. A sampling of classes of medicine includes:

1. Antipyretics: reducing fever (pyrexia/pyresis)

2. Analgesics: reducing pain (painkillers)

3. Antimalarial drugs: treating malaria

4. Antibiotics: inhibiting germ growth

5. Antiseptics: prevention of germ growth near burns, cuts and wounds Computer based drug purchasing system of Juhel Pharmacy shows various drug that one can purchase. It records the available drugs, the sold drugs and the money collected from the sold drug. It involves database programming to keep track of the event of the system. The program is also implemented using Visual basic program.

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