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tory and the way this helps rationalize the process of keeping shelves stocked efficiently. This efficiency starts with knowing how much inventory you actually have at any given time, according to Hal Roe, who is using EnterpriseRx and Enterprise POS from McKesson. “The first question I’d ask someone not using POS is whether he can actually
Hal Roe, R.Ph. Owner Roe Rx Opened his first pharmacy in 2000 and now owns five Health Mart pharmacies in the Ogden, Utah, area. Two are rented space inside grocery stores. Three are retail inside clinic locations of the Ogden Clinic group.
tell me how much inventory he has in the pharmacy,” says Roe. “If you have too much inventory, you are keeping cash out of your bank.” Getting a handle on your inventory all comes down to working with your item data, according to Ritzman Pharmacies’ John Fiume. “When you are using POS to manage your inventory,” he says, “you are gaining the ability to know not only what your inventory is, but where it is within the store and what locations are carrying it.” Ritzman, operating Epicor’s Eagle POS, uses a technique called location coding within stores, according to Janine Black. “Location coding is really just another way of saying that we have a shelf label for an item and therefore it has shelf space,” she explains. Location coding is at its most valuable, in Black’s view, when you get to purchasing. “If I want to create a PO, I know what we carry by the location code we’ve assigned, which tells us which items in a continued on page 24
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