A few words about Hospital Inventory Services and specifically BIG inventory
Why
use a professional inventory service for your hospital’s clinical
inventory
supplies?
·
Professional
hospital inventory services
utilize special skill sets which are developed over a consistent series
of
hospital inventories. These
skill sets
are not learned by a single annual event, but rather because of
repetitive
activities weekly/monthly throughout the year.
·
The
leaders of a professional hospital
inventory service have accumulated experiences which allow for error
capturing
and the knowledge base to insure all goes well.
These hospital inventory leaders have experienced many
different
scenarios, problems and unique requests giving them a unique
perspective
which most people, including hospital staff, do not possess.
·
Professional
hospital inventory services
free up your resources which in turn gives your hospital more time and
resources to increase patient care.
·
Utilizing
a professional hospital inventory
service saves overtime costs, regular payroll and the cost of training
internal
staff for a singular event. This is
the major reason if you ask hospitals why
they want to outsource.
·
Professional
hospital inventory services
spend the time and money to develop and enhance tools specific to
inventory and
the uniqueness of the hospital environment.
· As your hospital’s focus is on delivering the best care to your patients, the focus of professional hospital inventory services should be on their own skills, technologies, software, people, and systems.
Why
engage BIG Inventory’s professional hospital inventory service?
·
BIG
Inventory chooses to utilize fewer
personnel who select hospital inventory as their career rather than
using large numbers of
people
from temp services or for a single job.
This decision allows us to create higher levels of
productivity while insuring the highest level of overall accuracy.
·
BIG
Inventory chooses to work diligently on
your files weeks in advance of your scheduled hospital inventory to
remove/reduce
duplicates, manufacturer naming errors and UOM issues.
Once this data is loaded into our
system
we use it to validate each and every entry er capture.
This assures accuracy and
relevant data. We
even apply information to items which
failed to appear on your Item Master.
·
BIG
Inventory utilizes laptops instead of
handhelds because it is not possible to capture all relevant data on
ALL items
including items which fail to appear on your hospital item master nor is it efficient to try. So instead of trying and
spending weeks on
the final reports, we expend the time and processes necessary to
capture
all
relevant data at the point of entry allowing us to have final reports
in 3-5
business days.
·
Hospital
inventory services are divided
into two categories:
o
Premium
hospital inventory services
which perform some type of validation
at the point of capture and deliver the final reports within a week or
so.
Unfortunately, many times these premium hospital inventory services
also charge
a premium, many times at a flat rate. Although they argue flat rates
make it easier to budget and plan, the premium hospital inventory
services must err on the high side of inventory levels in order to
insure their profit margins. Additionally, there is
no allowances if
your
inventory levels are significantly less than the premium
hospital inventory service projected.
o
Discount
hospital inventory services
which do little if any validation and
deliver final reports in 30-90 days.
Discount hospital inventory services deliver less and some
even advertise
“non-specific” valuations (no real supporting data at an item level) in
order
to keep their prices low.
HISTORY
BIG Inventory, Inc. sprang from Electronic Inventory Systems (EIS) which was founded in 1985. EIS served retailers throughout the United States helping them acclimate from financial inventories to UPC based inventories. Since 2007, the management of EIS became involved in hospital inventories, finding a tremendous unfulfilled need and eventually committing 100 percent of its resources to hospital inventories. They developed a unique system called BERTHA (Bringing Employees, Resources and Technology to Hospital Audits) and named the company BIG Inventory, Inc. (BERTHA Implementation Group).
