CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

The role information technology have played in various field of human endeavors can not be over emphasized. As most section of humanity like banking industries, auto mobile industries etc have experience the influenced of information technology like wise in pharmaceutical industries.

Usage of Information Technology (IT) remained comparatively very less in Health sector than other sectors despite having more potential. Health Institutions, which is important sector, should encourage IT usage resulting better productivity, effectiveness, efficiency and economics leading to better health care to all. This paper tells a success story of implementation of ICT in monitoring of medicine in health Institutions such as Jahel Pharmaceutical LTD implemented by National Informatics Centre, Enugu State Centre for Directorate of Health Services, Enugu. System works on low-end resources and E-mail based data transfer from District Hard Quarter to State Head Quarter. Implementation of Med-Centre in all the districts of Enugu results in check on pilferage of medicine, increase in availability of medicine at Government Institution, increase in attendance of patient/doctors in health institution, optimal utilization of medicine and data capturing at source, resulting in availability of error-free data at State Head quarter

The present invention relates to a product monitoring system for monitoring, or keeping track of, various types of products. The invention is particularly useful in merchandising of products and also in inventory control of products, and is therefore described below particularly with respect to such applications. In the common retail store, consumers remove products from the shelves, place them in their shopping carts, and present them at a point of sale (POS) for identification, price calculation and payment. To identify each purchased product, the products are usually labeled with a universal product code (UPC, or “bar-code”) readable by a scanner connected to the POS. Scanning is done by a cashier holding each product to expose its UPC to the scanner. The labor cost and the line waiting time in such systems have prompted the introduction of a commercial self-scanning system, wherein the shopper uses a handheld scanner to scan the UPC of each item placed in his shopping cart. The handheld scanner includes a display, a  copy of the updated price database, and a calculating unit, enabling the shopper to update the information regarding the cart’s contents. Items whose UPC cannot be read by the scanner (which is quite common) are presented at the POS for re-scanning. Random re-scanning of the entire cart contents deter shoppers from dishonest behavior.

Also known are electronic shelf label systems, in which the store’s central computer downloads price information to electronic shelf labels placed near merchandise items. Also known are systems for counting items displayed on the shelves, as part of routine inventory control or order management, in which a handheld portable unit is used to either scan or key-in the product’s code and then key-in count information. Such information is downloaded later into the store computer through a terminal at the store office.

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