We've got gold piggy banks to give away to the best and most innovative supply chains in the country.
Continue ReadingAnnouncing: The 2022 Outstanding Healthcare Inventory Awards
Topics: inventory management software, innovation, visibility, communication, healthcare inventory, awards, hospital supply chain, collaboration, financial risk, supply chain resiliency, supply chain innovation, cost reduction, certified gold, Z5 Inventory partners, piggy banks, american healthcare industry
How Healthcare Providers Set Themselves Up To Fail
Topics: inventory valuation, supply chain management, innovation, disruption, communication, healthcare inventory, lowering healthcare costs, healthcare data, hospital logistics, healthcare supply chain, inventory optimization, collaboration, medical supply procurement, loss and expiration avoidance, risk analysis, predictive analytics
Gaining Trust To Make Innovation Possible
We’ve all had to adapt to a new normal during COVID-19, and those of us in the healthcare supply chain have had to adapt more than most. But the real question we have to answer now is: how can we take what we’ve learned and apply it to inventory management overall?
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How To Adopt An Innovation Mindset in Healthcare
While every other industry surges ahead in technology, strategies, and resilience, healthcare plods down its own path at a slow and steady pace. But this is one tortoise that might not make it to the finish line.
Continue ReadingTopics: selling medical inventory, reallocation, innovation, digital supply management, disruption, leadership, healthcare logistics, buying medical supplies, hospital supply chain, take 5, vendors, quarantine
Z5 Inventory Hosts Expert Panel At AHRMM19
On the first day of programming for AHRMM19 - the conference for health care supply chain professionals, held this year in the San Diego Convention Center - Z5 Inventory is hosting the panel discussion “The Culture of Change: Necessary Steps to Implementing the Next Big Thing.” Panelists will provide the requirements for establishing an environment within health care organizations that fosters innovation and speeds adjustment to industry and technological trends.
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5 Qualifications Of An Employee Who Will Actually Work
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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Five To Save | You're Gonna Need A Bigger Antidote | June 11th, 2018
You might recognize some of the problems in this week's five articles, and you'll definitely recognize that the solutions will have to be pretty big.
See what surprising lessons you can learn from Walmart, Homeland Security, and - inevitably - Shark Tank.
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