Implementing structure and control over unofficial inventories in a multispecialty group practice.
Materiel managers have been in control of most aspects of the supply chain except for the inventories of the end users, which account for 70 percent of the inventory supply dollars. When the Materials Manager at Lexington Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky, was approached by the Clinic's Chief Executive Officer to implement cost containment measures, the Materials Manager seized the opportunity to implement a six-step program aimed at controlling those supply dollars. Through requisition training, enforcing approval levels, limiting the number of requisitioners, and establishing par levels on floor inventories, the clinic's "unofficial" inventory supply dollars were reduced by 7 percent in the first 12 departments where the par levels were established. The program was hailed as a tremendous success and a positive experience for everyone, from nurses to warehouse clerks.
Lexington Clinic, KY.
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D017046:Cost Savings; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000191:economics / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006123:Group Practice / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D007629:Kentucky; D010934:Planning Techniques