THE MATERIALS FEATURE HAS BEEN DEPRECATED AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE WITHIN AMSHUB. USE RESOURCES.
What is Materials Management and How is It Different From Inventory?
First and foremost: what is materials management and how is it different from Inventory. Inventory includes the items that you order and use in a case, delivering treatment to a patient, and have a barcode or other unique identifier that can be scanned and attached to the procedure record for that patient. Materials Management is a tool that can be used to track other items that you use in the maintenance or operation of your facility, other than those items used on patients, in cases.
What Would I Track In Materials Management
Materials can be anything you want to keep track of on-hand levels for, much like you do with Inventory items. This could be copy paper or other office supplies, cleaning supplies, general medical supplies used through the course of operations, but not in the same way as items tracked in inventory. You can add things as Materials and then increment or decrement them as you use or get more. You set high and low par levels, just as you would for Inventory, and AMSHub will alert you as you use items, when reorder is necessary, based on your par settings.