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Everybody reports to somebody. But healthcare providers tend to have a skewed view on how top-down decision-making should be.
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Supply chain pros are frequently obligated to deprioritize personal and professional goals to address industry shortcomings. Nowhere is that problem more frequent than healthcare.
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What happens when healthcare providers and their supply chains are told that they will not be given the support that they need?
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Working in healthcare is often threatening to the physical, mental, and financial health of its very workers.
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The constant assaults on your mental and physical health probably aren't going to slow down anytime soon. But, hey, will free burritos help?
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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 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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The news changing constantly isn't anything - if you'll pardon the phrase - new. But that's a big part of what's contributed to healthcare worker burnout in the last couple of years. How do we fight that?
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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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