
In a healthcare facility, tight budgets and profitability constraints require efficient and precise inventory management.
However, excess inventory and equipment allocation errors are common problems that lead to high costs in storage, maintenance and resource management.
Here’s how Atlas InWay helps resolve these issues in a structured way.
📊 Centralized visualization of real needs: a lever for reducing surpluses
In many facilities, each unit – whether it’s sterilization, the operating room or the pharmacy – has its own needs for instruments and medical devices. Without a centralized tool, it becomes easy to accumulate excessive quantities of instruments to “prepare for any eventuality,” often leading to costly surpluses.
Atlas InWay offers a centralized instrument management interface , allowing each unit to accurately view inventory status in real time and align needs with available quantities. This transparency ensures that no instrument is purchased or stored beyond actual needs, thus eliminating surpluses.
📏 Standardization of compositions: towards better resource management
The diversity of surgical sets is a source of complexity. Atlas InWay facilitates the standardization of sets by identifying essential instruments and optimizing the content for each type of intervention. By defining standard sets for each procedure, the institution reduces the number of instruments required per intervention, which reduces inventory requirements without compromising the quality of care.
This standardization also allows:
Reduce the variety of instruments required , which simplifies the ordering process and reduces procurement costs.
Speed up tray preparation time thanks to known and standardized compositions.
Improve inventory turnover by maximizing the use of standard instruments.
🔄 Just-in-time inventory management: the right quantity, at the right time
Excess inventory implies storage costs and maintenance expenses, but insufficient inventory can also lead to delayed or cancelled interventions. Atlas InWay allows for just-in-time inventory management , adjusted to real needs.
By automating the monitoring of minimum stocks and reorder thresholds , the solution ensures that each necessary instrument is available in the right quantity without taking up storage space. This saves not only on storage space but also on inventory and material management costs.
📉 Reduced maintenance and inventory costs
Maintaining a large inventory of underused instruments results in high maintenance and monitoring costs. Atlas InWay allows you to:
Identify underused instruments to consider their reassignment or even destocking.
Reduce non-essential maintenance checks , focusing resources on equipment actually used in the operating room.
Simplify inventories with a centralized interface and automatic notifications, optimizing time spent on inventory and reducing the margin of error.
🚀 Result: Savings and sustainable management of resources
By streamlining inventory and relying on precise visualization of needs, Atlas InWay enables healthcare facilities to achieve substantial savings while optimizing service quality . This reduction in storage, supply and maintenance costs translates into better budget allocation, which can be reinvested in other services to improve the quality of patient care.
Atlas InWay thus transforms inventory management into a competitive advantage, ensuring user establishments not only better financial returns, but also a quality service aligned with real needs.
Jean-Paul Averty
President and Founder of InWay SAS
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