Good Storage Practice in good Warehouse

Storage management is Good and True
Product quality is not only related to the benefits of a product that can be taken or of the manner of manufacture, but also how the distribution is mainly supported by the appropriate storage method. Build quality is the responsibility of starting the drug's manufacturer, distribution, retail outlets such as pharmacies until, Hospitals, and so forth. With the quality of a product or service would be useful to have added value for both consumers and sellers.

What is a Good Storage Practice (GSP)?
GSP is a guide on how storage is good and true products. Generally, many used as guidelines in the pharmaceutical industry. This guide would have become a standard in the industry, but with a more modest scope can still be applied in the management of retail business.

Why need a GSP?
Through GSP basically we want to ensure that the products we will provide to the customer should always be in good quality and safe to use. Thus consumers can feel comfortable and when they learned that the products they buy have been through a series of due process.

Components in the GSP
Storage management is good and right to set some aspects such as:

1. Storage
2. Storage facility
3. Human Resources
4. Stock management
5. Documentation

The following will be covered an overview of each component that is considered most essential to be applied in everyday life.
Storage
Storage area or warehouse have common requirements, such as location, size, equipment required, then the temperature and humidity gauges, as well as pest / insect / animal nuisance.
Warehouse size
Storage space should be certainly able to accommodate all storage needs various kinds of products, in order to avoid mixing between one product with another product or products that are in good condition or damaged.
Storage Needs
Generally, storage areas must have a separator for product categories with one another. For example for a defective product with a good, cold temperature for a drug with a room temperature, and so forth. Particular area may also be needed for example for goods receipts or expenditures.
Storage Conditions
Storage area usually has a temperature and humidity requirements which must always be supervised. In this case the aspects to consider include: the location and / or temperature control of the number of points that can represent the condition of the room. The measuring instrument must have a standard size that has been calibrated. And the latter frequency also needs to be oversight to ensure that storage conditions are always monitored adequately.
More specifically, for certain products have special storage conditions, should not be used as an example to other products, should be stored in a locked place, and so forth.
And no less important storage areas must meet safety standards and the quality of stored products.
Insect Control / Animal nuisance
Storage areas are usually also not immune from insect / animal nuisance, because of the need for good surveillance system. Beginning with a program that has made routine checks his schedule. It is advisable to use outsourced services that have better competence. Then the material used to prevent insect infestation should not be harmful to the quality of the product. And finally, each activity is documented for easy checking of routine surveillance.

Storage Facility
Public facilities that need to be available in storage include adequate lighting, and refrigeration (AC) if necessary. Meanwhile, security-related facilities, among others, the individual keamaan equipment, safety signs, alarms, and fire extinguisher.
If you have a large warehouse where forklifts or trolleys are also required to facilitate handling of the transfer of goods. Besides, the existence of a computer to monitor the condition of the stock is very important, especially if the range of products very much and the flow of products is also very fast moving, so that more products and reduce the risk observed difference in stock.
If a particular product has a certain storage conditions, the presence of an electric generator is required to anticipate the event of power failure.

Human Resources
All personnel who work in the storage area should receive training on how good storage, regulations, operational procedures, and safety procedures.
Personnel working in the storage area will also need to use the equipment or clothing that can protect or do not cause the product to be contaminated.

Stock management
Stock management activities include, among others

1. Checks upon receipt of the product, 
2. Supervision of stock, 
3. Expenses of products, packaging, and transportation, and 
4. Destruction of the product.

The process of receiving goods
Every time there was activity of receipt of goods needs to be checked include: The packaging is not damaged, the amount delivered, the product label, the name and address of the supplier. Related to pharmaceutical product, batch number and expiration date must be checked.
Stock control and storage
Warehousing system should be made systematically, for example, space for movement of goods or a warehouse clerk for easy moving, then the process of checking the goods, and also the use of the card stock to keep an eye on the movement of goods.
The use of labels is also necessary to determine whether the product is in good condition, broken, or is still in pengecekkan. Important and is also routinely carried out calculations of stock to avoid stock difference.
Product expenditures
Expenditures for pharmaceutical products are generally products follow FEFO mechanism (First Expiry First Out), meaning that the product has a shelf life that should be prioritized for closer removed first. Need to ensure also that any expenditures always be checked in advance to avoid mistakes.
Products that have been issued should certainly have been accepted by the buyer to complete.
Returned goods
In dealing with items diretur foremost is the availability of written procedures regarding returned goods. Particularly regarding when items should return, how much, and other requirements.
Returned goods must be separated from the regular stuff, and labeled to clarify the distinguishing. Because the returned goods must be checked in advance about the conditions of security and quality.
Damaged goods
Handling damaged goods also need to be set in the written procedure, generally discussed the separation for the storage location, product labels, checks, and also the mechanism of destruction.
Destruction of goods
Destruction of pharmaceutical products must not be arbitrary, and need to be arranged in a written procedure. Usually the manufacturer of each product and also from the government issued rules on how to avoid misuse or destruction of impacts resulting from the destruction of the product..

Documentation
Besides running the storage operating properly, which is not important to ensure that all operations are carried out as appropriate documentation is primarily concerned with the storage process.
Documentation of each storage activity is essential, first to avoid mistakes and confusion due to the number of transactions that are running. Second, the documentation can be used as a guide the work so as to ensure that no activity is missed. Third, is used to perform tracking, especially if there is a discrepancy such as foreign stocks, missing items, excess, and so forth. And finally, the documentation is a requirement that when we perform the activities required storage products, especially pharmaceutical products.
Types of Documents
Documentation referred to above are very diverse, including:

1. Procedures, a document that contains the translation of an activity or instruction. Generally contains the explanation of the procedures, flowcharts, and diagrams / drawings.
2. Recording, a document that contains the records of an activity. It might be hard copy such as card stock, notebooks, and can also be a soft copy.

Document Management
Since the number of documents held in a single organization, it needs these documents need to be grouped into

1. A copy of the primary,
2. Control the distribution,
3. A copy that is not monitored,
4. The process of withdrawal, and
5. A copy of the is not valid.

Document Storage
These documents are very important, so it needs to be stored in a safe place. Then always been reviewed periodically, so if there are changes in activity could be available documentation.
These documents can also be accessed easily by the parties concerned. And to document that are not used can be destroyed or disposed in accordance with the provisions, for example, which has more than 5 years old or procedures do not apply.
Conclusion
Understand and apply the GSP is essential to maintaining product quality, and could be a selling point because we have followed the organization's storage procedures set out in international standards.