KanbanBOX for healthcare
A Lean Solution for Medical Device Management
KanbanBOX is the perfect electronic kanban solution designed to optimize the flow and material management in the healthcare sector, bringing Lean Manufacturing principles to the world of healthcare.
With KanbanBOX, managing materials and medical devices (MD) becomes simpler, more streamlined, and waste-free. The platform provides a highly intuitive visual system that allows healthcare facilities to effectively manage the supply chain of medical devices, reduce errors, and improve efficiency in hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations.
Key benefits include reducing stock levels and accurately tracking expiration dates through a FIFO (First-In, First-Out) flow, significantly reducing the risk of obsolete stock. The system also minimizes wait times and optimizes processes, allowing staff to focus on what matters most: patient care.
Benefits for the Healthcare Sector
By eliminating excess stock, the risk of stockouts, material shortages, and outdated supplies, KanbanBOX reduces warehouse management costs, logistical distribution expenses, and traditional procurement processes. These improvements provide significant systemic benefits:
- Reduced warehouse, logistics, and administrative transaction costs
- Consistent purchasing, optimized workflows, and elimination of human error
- Traceability, expiration management, batch control, and prevention of stockouts
- Elimination of low-value tasks, leading to increased motivation and employee satisfaction
- Consumption based on actual demand, with monitoring and reporting capabilities
- Cutting-edge technology, service management, and enhanced operational excellence
Optimal Management of Medical Device and Supply Stocks
KanbanBOX optimizes real-time monitoring of stocks and replenishment of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
With the electronic kanban system, you can avoid stockouts, reduce unnecessary stock, and improve material flow management, ensuring everything is available when needed without delays or waste. Additionally, staff always know where to pick and deliver medical devices and medications, using real-time, optimized picking lists updated with changes to individual patient prescriptions.
Maximum Integration with Existing Healthcare Systems
KanbanBOX seamlessly integrates with existing healthcare systems, such as hospital management software, ERP, and WMS (Warehouse Management System), as well as automated warehouses or other software, without the need to replace existing infrastructure.
The implementation is quick and can be adapted to the specific needs of the facility: you can start with managing a few codes, such as medications, or expand the system’s use to the entire hospital pharmacy or other operational areas, like surgical supplies. With the gradual adoption approach, teams can familiarize themselves with the system progressively, ensuring a smooth transition without interruptions to daily operations. KanbanBOX integration takes just a few days, allowing immediate deployment with no disruption to ongoing activities.
Case Study: KanbanBOX for Centre Oscar Lambret
The Centre Oscar Lambret, a French hospital, faced challenges in managing the stock of medicines and sterile medical devices.
By adopting KanbanBOX, the hospital achieved the following results:
- Reduction in stock levels and elimination of stockouts, with optimal management of expiration dates
- Real-time updated picking lists based on changing prescriptions, including detailed instructions on where to pick and deliver supplies to departments
- Remote access for pharmacists to stock data in case of after-hours emergencies
- Standardized processes, error reduction, and faster replenishment of medicines and medical devices
Discover how the Oscar Lambret Center transitioned from a situation of poor visibility regarding replenishment needs, with issues of both excess stock and stockouts, to a standardized system that is easy to manage and monitor, with a warehouse aligned with actual demand
“In the past five years, shortages of healthcare products became almost a daily issue, requiring the provision of alternative products. KanbanBOX provided the solution by enabling real-time identification of these products across departments from the first delivery.”
Dr. Frederic Feutry, Centre Oscar Lambret
Security, Compliance, and Digitalization
KanbanBOX, being a web-based solution, offers secure remote access in real-time, allowing healthcare staff to work flexibly, even across shifts or remotely. This provides continuous management and accurate monitoring of resources without geographical constraints.
Real-time traceability improves patient safety by reducing operational errors. With KanbanBOX, every material and supply is always under control, improving service quality and optimizing daily work efficiency.
Additionally, KanbanBOX strictly adheres to privacy and security regulations, as evidenced by our ISO 27001 certification, ensuring the protection of data and the reliability of the service, guaranteeing that all information is handled securely and protected.
Reducing Stock Levels and Preventing Stockouts
KanbanBOX helps reduce excess stock, which is particularly impactful for time-sensitive materials like medications, and prevents stockouts to ensure the constant availability of critical supplies.
Discover howVisibility on Stocks and Processes
With KanbanBOX, you gain complete real-time visibility of stocks, consumption, and processes, including supplier data, improving resource management and operational efficiency.
Learn moreERP Integration
KanbanBOX integrates easily with your ERP system, optimizing the flow of data between departments and administration, while enhancing the management of supplies and daily operations.
Find out moreDo you have any questions?
Our team is ready to help you implement KanbanBOX in your healthcare facility, providing dedicated training and support to ensure you get the most out of the system.
Case studies
Sacchi | Electrical Supply Distribution
Sacchi uses KanbanBOX to offer its customers a kanban-based sales service, ideal for recurring supplies and supports long-term customer loyalty
Oleodinamica Marchesini | Hydraulic valves
Oleodinamica Marchesini has optimized its production flow management by implementing multi-process kanban and pull production
Robopac | Packaging machines
With KanbanBOX, Robopac achieved a more integrated, responsive, and digitalized supply chain thanks to the integration with both external suppliers and SAP
BCS | Agricultural Mechanization
BCS moved from push to pull through E-kanban for suppliers, production, and internal flows. They now manage 6000 kanban loops across 3 plants
El.Co. | Industrial Electrical Automation
El.Co. has simplified the maintenance of kanbans with e-kanban, which was previously so onerous that the number of parts managed by kanban had to be limited
Orotig | Welding Industry
Orotig has implemented sequential pull in the company, optimizing multi-process production scheduling and supplier integration with KanbanBOX
Rossi SpA | Gearmotors and Electric Motors
Rossi Spa has digitalized the existing production and move kanban, then integrated it with its own ERP, with Oracle Sequencer and with suppliers
Aptiv | High-tech automotive systems
From the introduction of kanban to the transition to e-kanban. The Lean Improvement journey of the largest manufacturer of electronic interconnection systems for the automotive sector
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