Healthcare Supply Chain and Inventory Control
Stock outages are a patient safety problem. This is how supply is actually run.
Program overview
Supply chain failure in a hospital is not an inconvenience — it cancels operating lists and forces clinical substitution. This course covers demand forecasting in a clinical environment, par level setting and replenishment, consignment and implant stock, cold chain integrity, expiry and recall management, receipt and storage standards, and the relationship between clinical preference and standardisation. It also addresses procurement basics and evaluating a supplier, and is written for clinical and non-clinical staff who order, store or manage stock.
Why this program
Treats supply failure as a safety issue
Covers cold chain, expiry and recall handling
Includes consignment and implant stock
Written for clinical and non-clinical stock holders
Who it is for
Program objectives
- Forecast demand for clinical consumables realistically
- Set and maintain par levels and replenishment triggers
- Manage consignment, implant and high-value stock
- Maintain cold chain integrity and respond to excursions
- Execute expiry monitoring and product recall procedures
- Evaluate the trade-off between clinical preference and standardisation
Learning outcomes
- Calculate an appropriate par level from described usage data
- Identify the cause of a described stock outage
- Apply the correct response to a described cold chain excursion
- Execute the steps of a described product recall
- Evaluate a standardisation proposal against clinical objections
- Recommend storage improvements for a described area
Curriculum
Module 1: Supply Failure as Clinical Risk
1 lessonsSupply Failure as Clinical RiskPreview
What an outage actually costs, clinically and financially.
Module 2: Forecasting and Par Levels
1 lessons- Forecasting and Par Levels
Module 3: Receipt, Storage and Cold Chain
1 lessons- Receipt, Storage and Cold Chain
Module 4: Expiry, Recall and Traceability
1 lessons- Expiry, Recall and Traceability
Module 5: Standardisation and Procurement
1 lessons- Standardisation and Procurement
Duration and structure
5 lessons across 5 modules. Duration is expressed in study hours.
What you receive
This certificate confirms completion of Healthcare Supply Chain and Inventory Control. Duration is expressed in study hours.
Delivery format
- Self-paced — start any time.
- Study on any device.
- Lifetime access to the version you enrolled in.