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Article: Boxed in by moving boxes? Experts spotlight success strategies.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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In the diverse manufacturing, distribution and retail worlds outside of healthcare, inventory management represents a fundamental business practice to be mastered. Why? Because those companies widely and wisely recognize that bottom-line performance directly impacts top-line revenue and profits. Check their balance sheets.
Unfortunately, healthcare organizations on the provider side today have yet to embrace and incorporate such a philosophy already in place among healthcare product manufacturers and distributors. From using a variety of data management tools to organizing supply storage areas as efficiently as possible, inventory management within the supply ...