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Cost-benefit Analysis of the Implementation of an Integrated Production Software in the Raw Materials Sector of a Pharmaceutical Industry


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1 Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
2 Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata,, Argentina
3 Gerente de Calidad de Laboratorios Siegfried Rhein, Paraguay
4 Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Portugal
5 Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción,, Paraguay
6 CONICET, Argentina
     

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The pharmaceutical industry currently has computer systems that seek to optimize processes and allow the maximum performance of its resources through the use of computer tools. The objective of the work was to determine the costs and benefits of two different software in management of raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry. Methods: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, study that compared ONDANET and SAP software in positive and negative costs inferred in the implementation of the tools and the benefits in terms of the profitability of the management of raw materials for the elaboration of pharmaceutical products. Results: it has been observed by using direct costs and benefits that the benefit-cost ratio of the SAP software implementation yielded a result of 15.37, whereas the ONDANET software presented a cost-benefit ratio of 0.05, which could have been demonstrated Conclusion: A widely favorable cost-benefit ratio was found for SAP Software compared to the previously used ONDANET Software, indicating that the new software used is profitable. It is desirable to periodically carry out this type of analysis to guarantee not only that the Pharmaceutical Industry has a greater profitability, without also being able to provide its products with continuity and at affordable prices for the population.

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Cost benefit, pharmaceutical industry, integrated production software.
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Authors

María Eugenia Raidán Garcete
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
Olga Maciel
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
Lupe Marin
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata,, Argentina
Lourdes Barchello
Gerente de Calidad de Laboratorios Siegfried Rhein, Paraguay
Lourdes Samaniego
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
María Gloria Domenech
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Portugal
Gina Marin
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata,, Argentina
Gladys Mabel Maidana
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de Universidad Nacional de Asunción,, Paraguay
Gustavo H. Marin
CONICET, Argentina

Abstract


The pharmaceutical industry currently has computer systems that seek to optimize processes and allow the maximum performance of its resources through the use of computer tools. The objective of the work was to determine the costs and benefits of two different software in management of raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry. Methods: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, study that compared ONDANET and SAP software in positive and negative costs inferred in the implementation of the tools and the benefits in terms of the profitability of the management of raw materials for the elaboration of pharmaceutical products. Results: it has been observed by using direct costs and benefits that the benefit-cost ratio of the SAP software implementation yielded a result of 15.37, whereas the ONDANET software presented a cost-benefit ratio of 0.05, which could have been demonstrated Conclusion: A widely favorable cost-benefit ratio was found for SAP Software compared to the previously used ONDANET Software, indicating that the new software used is profitable. It is desirable to periodically carry out this type of analysis to guarantee not only that the Pharmaceutical Industry has a greater profitability, without also being able to provide its products with continuity and at affordable prices for the population.

Keywords


Cost benefit, pharmaceutical industry, integrated production software.

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