About Inventory Management
The Inventory / Materials Management module helps you track inventory levels, orders, sales and deliveries. You can also use this module to control quantity on hand of supplies for a center. Costing information for supplies, medications, implants, equipment and instruments entered in this module defaults into AmkaiOffice’s Cost Management module. Additionally you can use the Electronic Purchase Order, an add-on module, to send electronic purchase orders to vendors for faster processing time.
Prerequisites
Add materials/supplies through the Supply Resource dictionary, accessible from the Administration module. See Supply/Resource dictionary for more information.
Add vendors/manufacturers through the Third Party Organizations (Third Party Orgs) dictionary, accessible from the Administration module. See Third Party Organization dictionary for more information.
Set the default settings on the Inventory Setup dialog, accessible from the Inventory / Materials Management module.
Note: This module does not allow you to add / remove material/supplies or vendors/manufacturers.
Tasks you can do using this module
Once the prerequisites are met, you can perform the following tasks using this module:
Purchase materials/supplies
Assign purchase orders for materials/supplies to cases and patients
Monitor, control and adjust the quantity of materials / supplies based on physical counts and expiration dates
Transfer materials/supplies to different stores in the facility
Specify the persons to authorize transactions for added security
Send electronic purchase orders to specific vendors that conform to the 850 Electronic Data Interchange standards
Opening the Inventory Management Module
Click the icon shown circled below in the AmkaiOffice toolbar:
Inventory Management Topics