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A Team Effort Is Needed for Inventory Management | McKesson ideaShare

Drug Topics

Effective pharmacy inventory management requires a collaborative and proactive approach. In an interview at McKesson ideaShare 2025, Thomas Sherrer, PharmD, co-owner of Poole's Pharmacy, highlighted that managing inventory is fundamentally a "team sport" that requires comprehensive involvement from all pharmacy staff.

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Hospital Networks Invest in Centralized Pharmacy Hubs to Cut Costs and Strengthen Supply Chains

Pharmaceutical Commerce

Health systems across the United States are opening large-scale pharmacy service centers to streamline operations, improve inventory control, and ensure timely medication delivery amid drug shortages and rising costs.

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Building Intelligent Pharma Supply Chain Management with Real-World Data

Pharmaceutical Commerce

Drug tracking data, purchasing information, and usage trends can all be meaningfully applied to build models that generate actionable insights that enhance efficiency, ensure that therapies are available when and where they are needed, enable smarter inventory control, and improve predictive analytics.

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FourKites, Accenture survey dives into supply chain concerns

Outsourcing Pharma

Checking in with pharma executives, the survey outlines leadersâ thoughts about current and future challenges, like costs, security, and inventory control.

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Addressing the Pharmacy Industry Labor Shortage with Automation

Omnicell

The XR2 Automated Central Pharmacy System automates critical workflows to maximize inventory control, improve efficiency, increase patient safety, and importantly, reduce technician labor associated with medication dispensing.

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Addressing the Top 10 Medication Safety Hazards with Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) Use

Omnicell

Len Hom Director, Product Marketing, Point of Care While there are many benefits to automated dispensing cabinets (ADC), such as increased inventory control and efficiency in drug dispensing practices – limits on configuration and functionality combined with underutilization of available safety features can pose serious risks.

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The Future of Pharmacy Hits the Airwaves

Omnicell

Upcoming episodes will showcase the people and technologies on the leading edge of medication management, and will dig into topics including: Results and implications from a national study on IV preparation accuracy Unlocking savings from the 340B drug pricing program Improving medication cabinet workflows Inventory control measures using data-driven (..)