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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.
Find out how to solve healthcare's $5 Billion inventory waste problem today. Then get back to reading what we have for you from healthcare industry.

 

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Service Outages: An Industry Problem That Z5 Has Never Experienced

6/14/2022

two crawfish are shaking claws to illustrate successful collaboration with a reliable partner

Shortages. Stoppages. Service unavailability in your area. These are problems that Z5 doesn't face. See why in this guide to evaluating a reliable solution provider.

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Topics: physical inventory count, inventory valuation, reallocation, supply chain management, inventory management software, app, improvements, disruption, customer relationship, communication, healthcare inventory, apple app store, natural disasters, inventory optimization, collaboration, medical and surgical supplies, pharmacy inventory, google play store, customer service

Words VS Actions: How To Make Promoting Women in Healthcare's Supply Chain a Priority

3/8/2022

floating chiclets reveal a woman's arms crossed in front of her as part of International Women's Day 2022's theme of Break The Bias

The day this blog is published is International Women's Day. It's actually okay if you didn't know that. It's not okay if you do nothing now that you do know.

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Topics: womens health, holidays, savings, improvements, survey data, employment, medical supply chain jobs, inventory management, diversity, healthcare workers, medical supply procurement, loss and expiration avoidance, healthcare industry salaries, dei, supply chain industry salaries, representation, employee retention

Why Did You Start Working in Healthcare?

2/3/2020

We ask the question: why are you working in healthcare? Why not in any other field? And we bet we know the answer.

You could be involved in the supply chain of any industry. So why healthcare? 

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, improvements, digital supply management, survey data, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory

Five To Save | What Is The 'We Still Use Windows 7' Of Your Hospital?

1/27/2020

FTS - Windows 7

Every hospital - heck, every workplace - has ways they'd like to bring themselves into the year 2020. But they all have excuses for why they haven't, too.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, reallocation, five to save, conferences, trade shows, improvements, digital supply management, healthcare inventory, buying medical supplies, 2020, resolutions, windows

Five To Save | One Year After We Warned You ... Did You Listen?

11/12/2019

Are these piggy banks whispering or kissing? And why does this image seem so familiar?

Last fall we followed up on five topics that constantly come up in healthcare's supply chain. Now we're following up on that follow-up.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, ups, improvements, digital supply management, disruption, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, shipping

Five To Save | Why Does Everyone Want To Clean Up Healthcare?

10/29/2019

Everyone wants to clean up healthcare and the Z5 Piggy Bank along with it.

It seems like everyone has a miracle fix for US hospitals. Can hospitals not help themselves? 

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, amazon, medical supply, ups, improvements, digital supply management, disruption, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, shipping

Five To Save | So You Made A Mistake

9/16/2019

The Z5 Piggy Bank got a boo boo. But it's what the piggy does next that's important.

You had an accident. You made a boo boo. You done goofed. So what're you going to do about it?

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, improvements, digital supply management, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, failure, value based care

5 Blogs That Will Ensure Your Supply Chain Success

8/9/2018

5 Blogs That Will Ensure Your Success graphic.

You’re a hardworking professional. You don’t have time to be scrolling LinkedIn just in case something useful or educational might show up.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, healthcare, reallocation, supply chain management, inventory management software, medical supply, savings, improvements, digital supply management, excess inventory, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory

5 Qualifications Of An Employee Who Will Actually Work

8/6/2018

Stock Photo of a manager shaking hands with a new hire.

You want your organization to be successful. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be spending time reading blogs about improving your industry. Y’know, like this blog. (Please keep reading this blog.)

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, savings, innovation, improvements, digital supply management, excess inventory, disruption, cybersecurity, hiring, employment, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory

We're All Up In AHRMMs

8/1/2018

 The Z5 Piggy Bank herd is moving out to AHRMM18!

After conquering HFMA, we're rounding out the summer of healthcare shows at AHRMM18 in Chicago. This is the conference dedicated to "Advancing the Healthcare Supply Chain." And that's where we beat the competition with one AHRMM behind our back.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, selling medical supplies, supply chain management, medical supply, savings, conferences, trade shows, improvements, digital supply management, excess inventory, ahrmm18, buying medical inventory, travel