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The Z5 Inventory blog is brought to you by the geniuses behind Z5 Count,Z5 Analytics and Z5 Optimization services, which saves hospitals money at every step of your inventory's lifecycle.
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Inside Z5’s AI Transformation: Faster, Smarter Healthcare Inventory Management is Here

10/3/2025
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Topics: artificial intelligence, healthcare inventory, 2025, AWS, caylent

Healthcare Can Mitigate Disaster If We've Prepared For It | Five To Save

1/25/2022

white text reading 5 To Save overlaid on a crystal ball revealing the Z5 Piggy Bank inside

Whether you're in an area where things are staring to look up or have never looked grimmer, we did actually find some tools to help you deal with the current (and any future) disaster.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, healthcare, reallocation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, crime in healthcare, buying medical supplies, coronavirus, ppe, covid-19, hospital logistics, healthcare supply chain, loss and expiration avoidance, predictive analytics, medical devices, pharmacy inventory

Helping Inventory Shelves: Who's Keeping An Eye On Your Product?

12/7/2021

The Z5 Piggy Bank is dressed and sitting like an Elf On The Shelf, looking over a Christmas tree and two boxes of sutures.

Medical supply shelves need their own elves. But some that are actually there to help out instead of staring at.you all the time like tiny, creepy spies.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, holidays, artificial intelligence, predictions, buying medical supplies, coronavirus, covid-19, hospital logistics, healthcare supply chain, christmas, medical supply procurement, risk analysis, medical inventory, predictive analytics

5 Questions That Will Show You A Tech Vendor's Quality

8/11/2020

A hand holds up five fingers to indicate the five questions you should ask any tech vendor approaching healthcare providers.

You can't know everything about every emerging technology. But you can know how to evaluate a new tech vendor.

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Topics: technology, selling medical inventory, reallocation, supply chain management, contracts, digital supply management, artificial intelligence, healthcare inventory, free advice, healthcare data, buying medical supplies, machine learning, vendors, hospital logistics, contracting, education, qualifications

How To Learn the Tech Skills Supply Chain Managers Need

7/14/2020

A warehouse robot illustrates the changing nature of healthcare's supply chain tech landscape.

We get that the struggle right now is just to keep your head above water. But that can easily turn into treading water.

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Topics: technology, selling medical supplies, reallocation, digital supply management, artificial intelligence, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, machine learning, take 5, career advice

How Machine Learning Is Already Improving the Supply Chain

8/26/2019

A kid wears an adorable robot costume made out of cardboard boxes to make machine learning more palatable.

We’ve seen a lot of articles talking about what machine learning can do for healthcare’s supply chain. But we’re more interested in what it’s already doing.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, digital supply management, artificial intelligence, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, machine learning

Five To Save | It's Cyber Monday. Is Your Tech Up To Speed? | Nov. 26, 2018

11/26/2018

The Z5 Piggy Bank Decodes The Matrix of Cyber Monday Nonsense.

Sorry we don't have any TVs on sale for $5. But we do have some words of wisdom for free.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, selling medical supplies, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, cyber monday, google, free advice

Five To Save | How Close Is Healthcare To A Terminator Apocalypse? | Aug 14, 2018

8/14/2018

The Z5 Piggy Bank gets his Terminator on to talk about technology outpacing usage.

The machines are taking over the world. It's just a matter of time. We're all on the same page about that, right?

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Topics: selling medical inventory, healthcare, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, robotics, artificial intelligence, terminator, james cameron, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory