Inventory Management for Veterinary Professionals - Nicole I Clausen

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Résumé :

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvii

About the Companion Website xix

1 Introduction to Inventory Management 1

1.1 What No One Told You During Your Training as an Inventory Manager 3

1.2 Inventory Can Be Hard But It Matters. Here's Why 4

1.3 What is the Impact of Inventory Management on Our Practice? 4

1.4 When Do People Look to Reassess their Inventory System? 7

1.5 Inventory Goals 8

1.6 The Three Mindsets for Inventory Management 10

1.6.1 Mindset Exercise 11

1.7 The Role of an Inventory Manager 12

1.8 Qualities of an Inventory Manager 16

1.9 Creating an Inventory Team 18

1.10 Getting Your Team on Board 19

1.10.1 Co-creating an Inventory Improvement Plan 23

1.11 Best Practice Recap 23

2 Your Inventory Ecosystem and the Flow of Inventory Through your Practice 25

2.1 Your Inventory (and Practice) is an Ecosystem 27

2.2 Introduction to the Flow of Inventory in Your Practice 30

2.3 Communicating with Your Team 33

2.4 Inventory Manager Spotlight 34

3 Introduction to Demand Forecasting and Reorder Points, the Foundation of Our Ecosystem 35

3.1 Author's Note/Story 35

3.2 Introduction to Demand Forecasting 36

3.3 Demand Forecasting and Purchase Planning 37

3.4 Determining When an Item Needs to be Ordered 38

3.5 Utilizing Your Sales and Usage to Forecast Demand 39

3.6 Methods for Calculating Reorder Points 40

3.7 Reorder Point Exceptions 51

3.8 You've Calculated Your Order Points ... Now What? 53

3.9 Calculating Reorder Quantity - How Much to Order? 63

3.10 Calculating the Minimum and Maximum Level 66

3.11 Calculating the Economic Order Quantity 69

3.12 Putting It all Together 70

3.13 A Quick Story from the Author 73

4 Efficient Ordering and Replenishment 75

4.1 The Ordering Process 75

4.2 Replenishment Techniques 76

4.3 Creating an Order Schedule 77

4.4 Ordering Workflow 78

4.5 Strategies for Navigating Backorders 81

4.6 Utilizing Purchase Orders in Your Practice Management System 84

4.7 Special Purchasing Considerations 84

4.8 It's More than Just the Cost of an Item 89

4.9 Choosing and Evaluating Vendors 91

4.10 Creating and Using a Budget 92

5 Receiving and Restocking Your Inventory 99

5.1 Author Note 99

5.2 Receiving Inventory 100

5.3 Guidelines for Receiving and Restocking 100

5.4 Setting up Your Software to Optimize this Process 106

5.6 Invoice and Statement Processing 108

5.7 Putting It into Practice 110

6 Organizing, Storing, and Protecting Your Inventory 111

6.1 Author's Note 111

6.2 Why a Tidy Inventory and Pharmacy Matters 111

6.3 Organizing Your Pharmacy 113

6.4 Creating a Central Storage or Hospital Supplies Storage Area 114

6.5 (Re)Organizing Areas of Your Practice 115

6.6 Integrating Physical Reorder Points and Inventory Organization 117

6.7 Protecting Your Inventory Investment 124

6.8 Strategies for Safeguarding Your Inventory 128

7 Strategic Pricing for Your Inventory 131

7.1 How Your Practice's Values and Pricing Intersect 131

7.2 Introduction to Pricing Your Inventory 132

7.3 Prescription and Dispensing Fees 134

7.4 Pricing Models 136

7.5 Pricing Formula Overview 142

7.6 Pricing Concept: Flat Fee or Weight Bucket Injections 147

7.7 Profit Goals 147

7.8 Pricing with Your Practice Management System 148

7.9 Increasing Prices as Your Costs Increase 149

7.10 Putting It into Prac...

Biographie:
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The author

Nicole I. Clausen, CSSGB, CCFP is Founder and CEO of Veterinary Care Logistics and Co-Founder of Inventory Ally in Belgrade, Montana, USA....