This week marked the forty-second birthday of a technology without which modern healthcare would be impossible.
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Service Outages: An Industry Problem That Z5 Has Never Experienced
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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5 Steps To Improve Your Valuation Experience & Results: A New White Paper From Z5
Whether they happen annually, biannually, or more often, you've always got a physical inventory valuation coming up. How's your prep going for the next one?
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Labor in Healthcare's Supply Chain: A Guide to Improving Your Circumstances
Working in healthcare is often threatening to the physical, mental, and financial health of its very workers.
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How Healthcare Providers Set Themselves Up To Fail
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Suppliers On Life Support: How To Rebalance Healthcare's Supply Chain, Part 3
The pandemic impacted you as a healthcare provider almost as much as the communities where you’re providing care.
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More Than Assets and Liabilities: How To Rebalance Healthcare's Supply Chain, Part 2
What if you looked into a box, expecting to find a housecat, but you find a bobcat? It sounds insane, but we promise that somehow helps explain healthcare inventory optimization.
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The Key To Effective CFO-Supply Chain Collaboration | Five To Save
Consider something that might seem counterintuitive: it can actually be respectful to withhold certain data from others in your healthcare organization.
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Healthcare Worker Job Satisfaction: Perception VS Reality | Five to Save
A certain story is being sold about healthcare workers - and even among them - relating to the state of the industry and the career prospects it provides. But just because it's widespread, does that mean it's true?
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Welcome Livingston Inventory Services to the Z5 Inventory Family
With the acquisition of Livingston Inventory Services, more than forty new healthcare facilities will now be able to conduct supply chain management tasks using the award-winning inventory optimization solutions available from Z5 Inventory.
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