The Low Unit of Measure program is designed to improve the quality of supply chain management by delivering efficiencies through:

Productivity Inventory Reduction

• Quality /Accuracy Information Management (inventory)
• Reduce total acquisition costs Reduce supply chain failure/delay points

Productivity

• Streamlines central pharmacy ordering, receiving, and restocking procedures
• Allows for more clinically oriented functions
• Time consuming pick and pack functions are eliminated

Inventory Reduction

• Decreased demand to support decentralized areas
• Allow for tighter inventory control

Quality/Accuracy

• Bar-coded double check system reduce errors
• 1 error in 30,000 doses
• Decreased stock-outs
• Improved accuracy of paperwork and billing

Information Management (inventory)

• Software tracks department specific utilization
• Physical inventory is completed in minutes as opposed to hours of manual counting

Reduce total acquisition cost

• Shift from cost plus to a cost per dose
• Cost avoidance in EFT expense