Supplies Management in the OR

Supplies Management in the OR is the latest in a series of book on the application of Lean thinking and methods to hospitals. In this book we address the important task of supplies management, using Kanban and other methods.

Chapter 1: The Benefits of Lean Supplies Management
Chapter 2: Eight Reasons Why “Par” Doesn’t Work Well
Chapter 3: Converting Skeptics: Kanban Versus Par Simulation
Chapter 4: A Brief History of the Kanban Method
Chapter 5: Kanban Basics: The Two-Bin Method
Chapter 6: The Lean Supplies Management Roadmap
Chapter 7: Organizing Medical Supplies
Chapter 8: Pilot Project: Kanban in the OR Suite
Chapter 9: Advanced Kanban, Multi-Bin and Single Use
Chapter 10: Perpetual Inventory & Managing High Value Items
Chapter 11: Kanban Examples
Chapter 12: Kaizen: Guidelines for Making it Happen

The authors are principals with Leonardo Group Americas, and founding members of the Lean Hospital Group.