Your portfolio assignment this week will be building an assessment which can be used to determine the effectiveness of your medical group's processes for tracking and ordering supplies.$$Review the list and conclude whether or not the practice is enforcing proper inventory control procedures. Use the assessment you are creating to make sure medical supplies are not being wasted and that excess supplies are not being purchased and maintained in the supply inventory.$$ Does your office have a good plan for managing the inventory and addressing any discrepancies that have been found? Are supplies "walking" out the door?$$Once you understand your office's process and identify your inventory, you$$can get a better handle on how much product is needed and when, leading to a decrease in loss due to wasted, lost or expired supplies.$$What questions would be valuable in making your inventory control$$the most efficient and effective? What questions could you include on an assessment that$$would identify wastage or poor controls? Remember,$$medical facilities$$need to make informed choices about what to buy in order to meet the patients' priority health needs and avoid wasting limited resources. Supplies account for a large proportion of health care costs. $$How effectively are you managing yours?$$

For this assignment, you are to create an assessment to measure how your clinic$/$department$$is$$doing in the area of inventory control.$$Follow these directions for your assignment.$$

Create a practice assessment with questions that are relevant to assessing your medical practice's inventory control processes. Include questions that will help measure the effectiveness of ordering, tracking, using and wasting supplies.$$

An introductory statement explaining the purpose of and how to use the assessment must be included.$$

A minimum of $50$ questions must be defined. $$YES$$ or $$NO$$ format.$$

An explanation of how the assessment results will be used and the frequency of the assessment is to be typed at the bottom of the assessment.$$