Work Experience:

One year of supply chain experience required. Experience in a warehouse, hospital supply chain or customer service role preferred.

Education:

High school diploma or GED

Position Summary: Reporting to the Manager/Supervisor, Supply Chain Operations, this role is responsible for the management and oversight of perpetual inventory locations, such as the hospital’s central storeroom, surgical storeroom, or procedural area storeroom. This position will be accountable for the configuration of the storeroom environment including all item par levels to ensure inventory meet’s the institutions supply demands, the set up and proper labeling of bin locations and the functionality of hardware in the core inventory environment. This position will also be responsible for the oversight and management of inventory control operations such as daily cycle counting and review of restocking orders prior to transmission. This role may also have responsibility for the timely and accurate receipt, unpacking and restocking of all supplies and small equipment for the assigned entity. The role is responsible for the receipt, unpacking and put away of supplies for the institution, as well as ensuring assigned areas have sufficient supply to sustain operations until the next scheduled restocking event through accurate ordering for the next day’s delivery and management of secondary replenishment from the hospital’s central storeroom prior to concluding the restocking procedure for the unit. This role is also responsible for case cart operations in relation to picking, returning, and restocking supplies in core areas and case carts. This position will ensure all inventory management hardware and software is functioning properly on assigned unit, and will communicate and escalate clinical or administrative issues on assigned units.

Other responsibilities include:

• Manages day to day inventory controls, including daily cycle counting and MRP review
• Manages in bound parcel shipments through the verification of contents against packing slips and the management of SAP goods receipt process
• Regularly processes outbound returns to the external vendor or to the Consolidated Services Center
• Responsibility for SAP inventory transactions, including the issuance, return or adjustment of inventory into locations
• Reconfiguration of par levels, bins and items, including the physical location, area layout and adjustment in inventory management system
• Monitors inventory movement within supply area and requests changes to materials leaders to remove slow moving items or increases par levels for fast moving items
• Reviews unit prior to completing restocking procedure for low inventory items and subsequently issues and retrieves supplies from central storeroom before exiting the unit
• Participates in the daily unloading and loading of the truck from the Consolidated Services Center in an effort to ensure an on time arrival and departure of all supplies across the health system
• Manages the restocking of supplies for the hospital’s emergency carts, including the review of expired or short dated items. Restocking procedure should not exceed more than 40 minutes per cart
• Completes the restocking of all supply areas with a productivity rate 52 lines/hour
• Attends daily huddles to receive work assignments and instructions
• Responsible for checking, flagging and removing all short dated or expired product from supply area
• Retrieves, disinfects and redistributes small equipment for institution
• Ensures that supply areas are kept neat and orderly to comply with Joint Commission regulations
• Fields requests from departmental customers and directs them to appropriate materials management channel for resolution of request
• Supports the hospital’s inbound receiving process by reviewing, sorting a verifying the contents of all inbound parcels followed by the entry of a goods receipt in the hospital’s ERP system and concluding with the delivery of parcel to the unit
• Picks and assembles case carts with speed and accuracy while paying close attention to the manufacturing part numbers, quantities, expiration dates, and the sterility of supplies/instruments.
• Utilizes EPIC for the OR schedule and Snap Board, printing DPCs, utilizing scheduled instrument by case reports and audit trails
• Performs various SAP transactions; expiree, goods issues/returns/receipts, par and storeroom printing, etc.
• Interacts with a wide range of Operating Room staff in critical situations to provide direct materials support

Knowledge:

• Work requires knowledge of departmental policies and procedures, inventory stocking and distribution
• Knowledge of customer services protocols is required
• Knowledge of healthcare supplies and materials management operations are preferred

Skills:

• Good communication skills needed to effectively with peers, management, departmental stakeholders, patients, staffs and visitors is required
• Strong computer systems, including inventory management systems, SAP
• Sound problem-solving skills.
• Ability to take direction and follow institutional guidelines and procedures
• Ability to be flexible to meet schedule needs, and handle frequent unpredictable changes.
• Ability to work as a committed team member by contributing in a positive, enthusiastic, engaged and collaborative manner
• Ability to read, write and have the mathematical ability at a 12th grade level is required

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