Supplies Management in the OR is the latest in a series of book on the application of Lean thinking and methods to hospitals. In this book we address the important task of supplies management, using Kanban and other methods.
Chapter 1: The Benefits of Lean Supplies Management
Chapter 2: Eight Reasons Why “Par” Doesn’t Work Well
Chapter 3: Converting Skeptics: Kanban Versus Par Simulation
Chapter 4: A Brief History of the Kanban Method
Chapter 5: Kanban Basics: The Two-Bin Method
Chapter 6: The Lean Supplies Management Roadmap
Chapter 7: Organizing Medical Supplies
Chapter 8: Pilot Project: Kanban in the OR Suite
Chapter 9: Advanced Kanban, Multi-Bin and Single Use
Chapter 10: Perpetual Inventory & Managing High Value Items
Chapter 11: Kanban Examples
Chapter 12: Kaizen: Guidelines for Making it Happen

The authors are principals with Leonardo Group Americas, and founding members of the Lean Hospital Group.

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Gerard Leone and Richard D. Rahn are the Principals with Leonardo Group Americas, LLC. The mission of Leonardo Group Americas is to assist its hospital clients to achieve success with the implementation of advanced Lean methods. This is accomplished through our talented staff and their profound knowledge and experience, a suite of world-class training seminars, state of the art web-based training, certification programs, books and materials, and through the prudent application of Lean software tools. LGA has been involved with the deployment of Lean in hospitals since 2002, and is a founding member of the Lean Hospital Group. They have conducted Lean improvement projects in virtually every hospital process and Value Stream.

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