PAR Location Management

Getting Started with PAR Management in Oracle SCM Cloud

Why invest in PAR Management? How can you keep costs down
while maintaining exceptional patient care through accurate PAR levels?

PAR Inventory

Set Up PAR Inventory

Disorganization of PAR locations can lead to lost revenue. Setting up PAR locations can help you know what materials you have on hand.

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Examine Usage

Count your storeroom regularly, paying attention to expiration dates. Utilize the FEFO method to ensure your'e using items before they expire.

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Utilize Mobile Scanning

Use barcode scanning to help give complete visibility to your supply levels. Eliminate paper processes to reduce errors from manual data entry.

Understanding PAR Location Management

Facilities, such as hospitals and other healthcare providers, need to efficiently manage and replenish supplies. Nurses and other clinical staff grab and utilize supplies as necessary without scanning them in or out. You can have hundreds of items per location and hundreds of locations per facility. By automating your PAR process, Oracle healthcare driven facilities reduce costs and enhance operational efficiency while maintaining patient care levels.

One way to do this is to improve visibility across PAR locations, stockrooms and warehouses. RF-SMART’s mobile functionality, combined with the Oracle Cloud, gives you a process that ensures your inventory levels are maintained at ideal quantities.

Keep reading: PAR Management Best Practices

Do you struggle keeping PAR locations stocked?
Are your supply levels accurate?
Do you need more visibility into your hospital operations?
Would you like to automate data entry and minimize variability of items to buy/manage?

RF-SMART PAR Management

Designed and developed in collaboration with Oracle Product Strategy, RF-SMART's pre-integrated PAR Management solution increases visibility into supply utilization with the ability to optimize your PAR locations.

Our PAR technology functionality allows you to define locations, the items within, min/max levels, replenishment method, and other key attributes. With the ability to create shifts and define schedules, you can manage work activities and staffing to monitor and maximize efficiency. You are able to see who did what and when they did it, and your entire organization can perform real-time inquiries to see what’s on-hand.

We provide flexible, purpose-built functionality for Oracle Healthcare driven facilities, including:

Template Creation
Location Definition & Management
Trigger Req’s in Oracle
Trigger IMTs in Oracle
Mass Item Updates
Error Notifications

Tighter Control
on PAR Activities

RF-SMART provides better insight into
PAR counts and making sure PAR locations
are counted on the appropriate days and shifts.

PAR Scheduling

Once you create a PAR Group, you can then assign a shift to count that group. Groups can be scheduled for multiple days or shifts. End users can see the Groups of PARs to be counted on their shift when they login to the mobile device.

PAR Grouping

PAR Grouping provides the ability to join multiple PAR Locations into a larger group. By grouping PAR Locations for a specific Organization, you can ensure all locations are counted and increase overall count efficiency.

PAR Activity Dashboard

Managers can quickly and easily view real-time PAR activity on our PAR Activity Dashboard for better visibility and accountability. PAR locations must be grouped and scheduled for RF-SMART to populate the Dashboard.

Mobile PAR (Offline)

Once your PAR locations are defined in RF-SMART’s PAR Management, you are ready to send your supply chain professionals out to count and manage your healthcare inventory.

Your supply chain professionals count locations on a periodic basis to make sure everything is at the optimum (PAR) level. Our offline mobile application has a user-friendly UI that is easy to use and learn, reducing training time. You also don’t have to worry about spotty WI-FI throughout your facility.

RF-SMART and Oracle work seamlessly to trigger replenishments and appropriately expense items. Purchase Orders for vendor supplied items & an IMT/Transfer Orders for storeroom replenished items are created automatically.

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