Any hospital has many operational domains and each domain is very critical. These operational domains constitute whole hospital operations. Among one of these domains, supply chain management has immense value. Stock availability needs to be ensured all the time for dispensing medicines & consumables to patients and ensuring 24/7 function of equipment and other infrastructure.
This is very imperative that need of items and consumables irrespective to its type or category are precisely intimated to initiate procurement. Availability of required items with suppliers and vendors also needs to be known. Accurate procurement of item(s) can only be initiated when stock required and stock available is efficiently and accurately known. Consumption of items on daily or for any period must be updated all the time. A good Hospital Management software or hospital ERP should address this aspect smartly to avoid shortage of items as well as overstocking. The hospital ERP or Hospital Management Software essentially have the capability to maintain suppliers’ profile with items they deal and lead time. Maximum and minimum level with Economic Ordering Quantity (EOQ) and needless to repeat again the consumption or items required should relate with EOQ and lead time for the timely supply of items.
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Hospital.Partners, a trusted hospital ERP or hospital management software has all these factors ingrained, to give an efficient supply chain management. Items might have consumption frequency differently in wards and departments; therefore, it is also important to know the location-wise consumption of items.
While items for procurement are ordered through purchase order, it must follow the workflow starting from purchase request with required levels of electronic approvals. A good Hospital ERP or hospital management software must intimate as what is the available stock and what is the time when stock shall be received. Supply chain management is not just giving orders for supply, but efficient and optimum level inventory management is the crux to avoid unnecessary funds involvement in the shape of the excessive stock.
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