Paper Inventory Management: A Lean Approach

For years our inventory management system relied essentially on visually checking our shelves and taking notes of what needed replenishing. An employee who required a certain paper stock for a job would scribble it on a piece of paper and hand it to the coordinator who would flip through a card system, retrieve the right card and enter the order on the hospital's materials management system (MMS). Most items were not cataloged, so a description had to be typed into the system each time.