Clear, no-fluff guides on the numbers that quietly run your practice: reorder points, order quantities, trapped capital, and turning messy PIMS exports into decisions. Written for the person who actually has to place the order.
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Data-driven ordering beats gut feel every time. The catch is the workload: spreadsheet math, pack-size hunting, detective work on lumpy items. Here's the fix.
The numbers that run a veterinary inventory, explained from scratch: average daily use, lead time, safety stock, reorder point and order quantity, plus the three habits to start this week.
Just-in-time sounds efficient until a patient needs a drug you skipped. Here's what holding stock really costs, what a stockout really costs, and where the lean should actually come from.
The safety stock formula, worked by hand on real monthly numbers. Standard deviation, the service-level Z score, and why lead time enters as a square root.
A plain-English guide to organizing your products and services with the free AAHA/VMG Chart of Accounts, the public best-practice standard, so your inventory math (and StockSolve) finally works.
Your cost of goods percentage looks too high, and the vaccines, ProHeart, and Cytopoint hiding inside your wellness plans are probably why. Here's the mismatch, and how to fix it.
Outside-lab send-outs sprawl into dozens of cryptic line codes. Here's how to group them the AAHA way, by your reference lab, so your catalog (and your lab revenue) finally make sense.
'Laboratory' isn't one number. The AAHA/VMG Chart of Accounts splits in-house from outside reference lab on purpose, and that split tells you where your real margin (and your real inventory) lives.
Veterinary bulk pricing wins back online-pharmacy sales, as long as your tiers protect margin. Here's how to set quantity breaks, run the per-unit math, and stay profitable.
The economic order quantity is the how-much-to-order number. Here's the EOQ intuition, the carrying-cost trap, and how to round it to real pack sizes you can actually buy.
Strong veterinary inventory management needs an inventory manager with real authority and a trained team. Here's how to give the role real time, authority, and buy-in.
Veterinary inventory counts drift fast on a busy floor. Here's a simple open-date log, cycle counting, and variance triage to keep your numbers honest.
The reorder point is your when-to-order number. Here's the math behind ROP, safety stock, and lead time in plain English, so you never run out of a drug again.
Reorder tags and a simple two-bin system stop stockouts before they happen. Here's how to build a physical reorder trigger your team will actually use in any clinic.
Overstocked shelves quietly tie up thousands in working capital. Here's how to spot trapped inventory capital in your veterinary practice, and the simple math that frees it.
A plain-English overview of the reorder point and economic order quantity, the two numbers that run your veterinary ordering, plus where to dig into each.
A practical, PIMS-agnostic guide to pulling the inventory and sales data you need from AVImark, Cornerstone, ezyVet and others, without spending an afternoon cleaning spreadsheets.