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Archive >  Surgical Supplies 2007

3 Steps to Right-sizing Your Suture Stock

A colored tracking system will stitch flaws in your inventory management system.

Robert Schaff

Controlling your suture inventory demands managing one of the most difficult and most valuable cost centers of your surgery center. We have all been hit with large price increases on suture. The fact is there is very little that we can do about it. However, we can minimize the price impact by using better just-in-time practices, and controlling the rotation of our stock. To accomplish this we will need to outperform previous purchase trends and control our suture stocking patterns. By targeting these areas we will be able to minimize the impact of higher suture prices.

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