In healthcare, effective inventory management is imperative to maintain a productive and efficient workplace while controlling overheads. By managing supplies effectively, healthcare facilities can ensure staff have the tools and materials they need to perform their tasks to the letter while ensuring the highest standards of patient care.
The reality of the hospital or long-term care facility floor, however, can make inventory management an onerous and error-prone task. Healthcare professionals must constantly turn on a dime and are often pulled in multiple directions at once, sometimes making supply management an unfortunate afterthought.
Our partners at LogiQuip have invested a lot of brainpower into this issue and have developed an innovative inventory management system now carried by Acart Equipment called Intelli-Flip. The next evolution in the traditional PAR system, Intelli-Flip is a simple, technology-based tool that automates your inventory management process by bridging the gap between your Kanban units and your ERP system.
How it works
- Attach the patented Intelli-Flip monitor to each Kanban flipper
- When the caregiver has used all of the supplies in the first bin, they simply lower the flipper to access supplies in the second bin
- A signal is sent to the Intelli-Flip portal
- The portal tracks inventory, velocity trends, days on hand, stock levels and more
- Integrates with your ERP system to automate ordering, reducing stock-outs and expired products
“The LogiQuip (Intelli-Flip) system is extremely simple and we feel will be a big benefit to our team as well as nursing,” said Ben McGlashen, Regional Manager of Supply Chain Site Operation for a US healthcare facility. “Feedback and benefits of this system were very positive from nursing and supply chain staff... my director is looking to push the system out to all sites in the near future.”
Save 50 minutes per PAR location per day on supply management*
Recent data at a Michigan healthcare facility also show the difference the Intell-Flip system makes:
100% reduction in order time (from 18 minutes to zero)
40% reduction in put-away time (from 26.67 minutes to 16 minutes)
55% reduction in the number of items put away (from 36.67 to 17 items)
67% reduction in time spent on supply activities within the department (from 81 minutes to 27 minutes).
To learn more about the Intelli-Flip inventory management system:
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Acart Equipment is thrilled to be the exclusive distributor of the Intelli-Flip inventory management system in Canada. Our successful relationship with the producers of Intelli-Flip extends back over 20 years, with one of Acart’s co-founders also having co-founded LogiQuip.
Every Intelli-Flip system is designed to order based on your facility’s unique inventory requirements. Contact us now for a quote and for more information on the benefits of the revolutionary Intelli-Flip system.
*Assumes 272 SKUs per PAR location with an average time savings of 11 seconds per SKU based on a case study done with Intelli-Flip.