Purchasing and Inventory Flashcards
Benefits of an Inventory Management Program
Supplies and reagents always available
Minimize wastage
Stay within budget
Quality maintained
RIA reagents
3 to 8 weeks
API kits
4 to 12 months
Antisera
1 to 4 years
Antibiotic disks
2 to 3 years
Ready-to-use culture media
1 to 2 months
Dehydrated culture media
3 to 5 years
Establish a System to Qualify and Select Vendors
define criteria for supplies and services to be purchased
use information from other laboratories
evaluate before purchase and after receipt
How to Implement Inventory Control
Assign responsibility
Analyze needs
Establish minimum stock needs
Develop forms and logs
Establish system for receiving, storing
Maintain inventory systemin all storage areas
Inability to test, even for a short time, is very disruptive to clinical care, prevention activities and public health programs.
Agree
Must take into account wastage-expired supplies.
Consumption-based quantification
Accurate quantification prevent overstocking.
Yes
Pipette tips can be packaged as 100 per box. What is 100?
Unit of count
Which method is more accurate?
Morbidity-based quantification
Store old shipment behind existing shipment.
No
Which of the following is used as tool in managing the stock?
Logbook, cards, forms
The challenge of inventory management is balancing the availability of supplies and reagents in stock with their date opened.
False
All purchased material should be inspected and appropriately tested to ensure that specifications are met, and policies should be established for storing and handling materials as they are delivered to the laboratory.
True
_____ is a process for calculating how much is required of any particular item for a given period of time.
Quantification
based on the actual usage
Consumption-based
actual number of episodes
Morbidity-based
Dating labels
date opened
date expires
