DECA Buying and Merchandising Operational Research Event

This event tasks its competitors to create a research study on a real company. For this project, I chose an independent pharmacy, Healthways Pharmacy, to learn more about the pharmaceutical industry. I observed the pharmacy, administered some interviews and conducted customer and employee surveys. I found the biggest problem was the workflow, being that there were too many prescriptions to distribute for the limited space. I did online research and proposed a pharmaceutical robot. I worked through financials to show this is the most beneficial solution to the problem. 

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Placed top 10 in New York State

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Skills Obtained:

• Setting up a research study

• Analyzing data

• Confidence- conducting interviews and surveys

• Researching and solutions

• Presentation

• Selling my idea