What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inventory Specialist position at AlixaRx?
About AlixaRx
Come join us and help make a difference in the world of long-term patient care!
AlixaRx was founded in 2011 with a mission to transform medication management in long-term, post-acute and other healthcare settings. We were born from a need to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies. AlixaRx was developed through collective input from nurses, pharmacists, and physicians to provide safety, access, and savings to long-term and post-acute care facilities. With the use of proprietary dispensing technology and innovative clinical pharmacy services, AlixaRx services more than 20,000 patients across the nation. Our mission is to deliver pharmacy services through innovative technology that improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies.
Job Details
Come join us and help make a difference in the world of long-term patient care!
AlixaRx was founded in 2011 with a mission to transform medication management in long-term, post-acute and other healthcare settings. We were born from a need to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies. AlixaRx was developed through collective input from nurses, pharmacists, and physicians to provide safety, access, and savings to long-term and post-acute care facilities. With the use of proprietary dispensing technology and innovative clinical pharmacy services, AlixaRx services more than 20,000 patients across the nation. Our mission is to deliver pharmacy services through innovative technology that improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies.
Job Details
- Develop and maintain an inventory database within an automated prescription dispensing environment. Ensures accuracy of drug database in the pharmacy dispensing and wholesaler System.
- End of Month Reporting; Consumable Inventory, Automated Dispensing System, EKIT and adjustment reporting.
- Maintains ROP/ROQ-CIM
- Inventory Returns- monitor open MRA's, ensuring credit is given for returned product.
- Propose and provide creative resolutions to product shortages. Responsible for minimal shorts/outs of products.
- Provide direct customer service to the pharmacy production staff. .
- Maintain optimum levels of medication inventory and consumable products used in the automated prescription dispensing environment at all times. Maintains drug activation/deactivation/linking of drugs; slotting drugs on the shelf -FW/CIM
- Coordinate assigned inventory control counts for all dispensing facilities in compliance with state and federal regulations. Analysis, research, and documentation of daily cycle count variances
- Support product recalls via appropriate reporting and record maintenance. Monitor Excess and Aging inventory. Monitor and react to product recalls.
- Provide clear and concise communications to all sites associated with recalls, new product additions and any product shortages.
- Maintain compliance to all applicable regulations via thorough practice of documentation and organizational skills.
- Create purchase orders for all service department purchases. Places daily orders.
- Receive and open incoming boxes, make appropriate entries and move to dispensing areas for stocking. Automated Dispensing Unit Canister Inventory Management- Order new canister builds, monitor on hand stock and manage physical inventory.
- Executes procurement of all facility supplies- pack/ship supplies, production supplies.
- Quarterly Inventory Coordination and accuracy.
- Creates reports of key metrics for review (i.e. cycle count stats, fill rate, optimization %, etc).
- Receiving and stocking of daily receipts against invoices
- Packing/Shipping Duties- Inventory Transfer, Returns and Damaged/Expired
- Execute daily cycle counts during slowest dispensing time
- Assist in researching cycle count variances- recounts
- Various efficiency projects- research, testing and piloting
- Cross trained personnel for emergency backup of inventory position