Procedure area inventory

We currently have a perpetual inventory in our Cath Lab and utilize Par locations in our ORs. We moved away from perpetual in the OR in 2016 as it was difficult to maintain inventory levels as stock was issued for procedures and half the product was returned unused after the system had already ordered new product.

How do you handle supplies in Cath Lab and OR? Perpetual or Par?

Thanks,

Dan

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flewis

Good Morning, Dan! As a former Operations Manager for both Perioperative and Peri-procedural areas, I've always been a proponent of using PAR locations for inventory management in those areas, especially for high dollar items. Having a stock location for bread and butter items makes sense, especially if you have the space and staff to do that. However, even that has to be managed very well, otherwise stock outs will destroy your relationships with Nursing. For high dollar specialized items, including consignment, my preference has always been to use PAR locations. Most of those items are use and replace anyway, so the replenishment process doesn't have to be augmented with that issue from the stock location. The biggest issue I've come across is reporting "inventory" as an asset. However, none of what is either consigned or purchased is technically inventory, save your bread and butter items; the rest are operational supplies that can be coded if necessary using account groups.

Anyway, that's my two cents. I'm sure there are pros to putting those items in a stock location; for me, the extra work isn't worth it.

Thanks -

Frank

gtesche

Hello Dan,

We switched from having Cath/EP lab items as inventory tracked to par tracked. Our Finance group agreed to this change if we set up a process via par FSM report groups that send the value of those par locations to be booked as inventory in GL only. As part of this process, we have consigned items on separate pars that are not included in the report group pars to be booked as inventory since we don't own those items.

We made those changes during our planned moved from S3 to FSM.

We've had some hiccups with the consigned par items but are working on improving the process between supply chain operations and the contracting group.

Thanks,

Gretchen

gtesche

As for the OR, we have a mix of both, some pars and some inventory. We also converted some of our inventory to pars due to some of the same issues you noted.

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