Par Cart Standards

Legacy Contributor

We have been utilizing par carts for the past several years, mostly for direct replenishment though handhelds, year-end valuations for the Finance department as well as for interfaces to the Pyxis and ORSOS system.

Our standard is to name the Par Cart with the Account Unit number following any two characters for the user to help identify what is on the par cart and who it is for. Over the past several months we have heard instances of par locations being built/or not being built because the room replenishes from another par cart. The end user also sometimes as difficulty because of purchase UOM requirements. So in this instance they may have a combination of replenishment types in one room that would require several par carts instead of just one being setup just to avoid confusion.

Our Inventory Control department monitors Par Cart UOM's to prevent ordering issues, so if the UOM was entered at the LUOM on the par cart, it is likely that Inventory Control would see this as an error and would correct it, even though the end user would not reorder this item off of this particular par cart - they would replenish manually from another room.

Does anyone else currently have this same process happening? How have you standardized this? Do you have specific par cart "types" identified that follow different scenarios for setup? Do you use location attributes or a specific field within IC81/IC02/RQ01?

I wish there was a way to denote par cart to par cart replenishment!

Any feedback/thoughts are greatly appreciated! Thanks! - Stephanie

jon-athey

Our standard naming convention for par locations starts with a letter to denote the facility, then the next three characters match the last three digits in the AU for that department and then a 5th character which is just A-Z depending on how many supply locations are in that department. For example, the OR at our medical center in Midland has M535A, M535B and M535C.

We only replenish from an inventory locations or from the vendor at our Par Locations. The main operating rooms themselves are not par locations in Lawson and OR coordinators just grab the supplies they need for the rooms from the supply areas. But we do have a cysto room that is a par loc so that's an exception.

For the PUOM issue I have a Crystal report that shows me all nonstock items on the par where the location UOM does not match any Buy UOM in IC11.