Facilities Planning & Design for Supply Chain Operations

Architects are making use of specialized consultants, such as HCSB, to assist them in this area where their knowledge and experience may be limited. The results are:

• Improved logistical flow
• Enhanced inventory management
• Better space planning and utilization
• Superior of use of automation
• Lower cost in construction and operation
• Higher nursing satisfaction
• Improved patient care

HCSB provides facilities planning and design services to organizations.

Areas of opportunity that can benefit from HCSB’s participation include:

• Planning for the construction of new patient towers
• Reviews and assessments of current supply chain operation in an effort to determine what adjustments were necessary to optimize its levels of service to new patient areas
• Determination of how the growth of the organization and its facilities would affect the key departments of Surgical Services and Clinical Laboratory
• Materials Management assessment and initial design review for the proposed construction
• Major changes in the physical layout of an organization that would affect the access to and configuration of its receiving docks
• Proposed design and location of new and patient towers and relocation of service program
• Comparative benchmarking studies on supply chain operations in similar sized hospitals.
• Internal logistics problems centered on the supply flow to and storage in the nursing units

Greater detail of those engagements and references can be provided on request.

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