Purchasing and Inventory

Question 1

Benefits of an Inventory Management Program

Answer 1

Supplies and reagents always available
Minimize wastage
Stay within budget
Quality maintained

Question 2

RIA reagents

Answer 2

3 to 8 weeks

Question 3

API kits

Answer 3

4 to 12 months

Question 4

Antisera

Answer 4

1 to 4 years

Question 5

Antibiotic disks

Answer 5

2 to 3 years

Question 6

Ready-to-use culture media

Answer 6

1 to 2 months

Question 7

Dehydrated culture media

Answer 7

3 to 5 years

Question 8

Establish a System to Qualify and Select Vendors

Answer 8

define criteria for supplies and services to be purchased
use information from other laboratories
evaluate before purchase and after receipt

Question 9

How to Implement Inventory Control

Answer 9

Assign responsibility
Analyze needs
Establish minimum stock needs
Develop forms and logs
Establish system for receiving, storing
Maintain inventory systemin all storage areas

Question 10

Inability to test, even for a short time, is very disruptive to clinical care, prevention activities and public health programs.

Answer 10

Agree

Question 11

Must take into account wastage-expired supplies.

Answer 11

Consumption-based quantification

Question 12

Accurate quantification prevent overstocking.

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Pipette tips can be packaged as 100 per box. What is 100?

Answer 13

Unit of count

Question 14

Which method is more accurate?

Answer 14

Morbidity-based quantification

Question 15

Store old shipment behind existing shipment.

Answer 15

No

Question 16

Which of the following is used as tool in managing the stock?

Answer 16

Logbook, cards, forms

Question 17

The challenge of inventory management is balancing the availability of supplies and reagents in stock with their date opened.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

All purchased material should be inspected and appropriately tested to ensure that specifications are met, and policies should be established for storing and handling materials as they are delivered to the laboratory.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

_____ is a process for calculating how much is required of any particular item for a given period of time.

Answer 19

Quantification

Question 20

based on the actual usage

Answer 20

Consumption-based

Question 21

actual number of episodes

Answer 21

Morbidity-based

Question 22

Dating labels

Answer 22

date opened
date expires