cover story POS
Point of Sale and Managing the Pharmacy by Will Lockwood
Today’s pharmacy point-ofsale (POS) systems are powerful tools for gaining control over your pharmacy as a business. This is certainly true for managing the front end, from inventory to pricing and reporting. But read on to find out how else you can extend the use of POS to meet regulatory requirements, fill in missing details about prescriptions dispensed, and raise your customer service to a higher level.
Know Your Inventory
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erhaps the most powerful features of POS, and certainly the ones most talked about by the pharmacists and owners interviewed for this article, are inventory tracking and control. Specifically, there’s particular interest among pharmacists in perpetual invencontinued on next page
May/June 2012
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