Reducing waste is the ultimate goal of effective stock management for every dental practice.

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Let's admit it: team members in many dental practices hate manually entering data into a spreadsheet. It's that tedious, repetitive task draining their energy and causing productivity levels to take a nosedive.

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Can you confidently say that your dental practice achieves 100% efficiency with manual stock management?

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Be honest.

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Everyone in a dental practice feels the weight of managing inventory with the old-school spreadsheet system.

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What if we told you that these issues stem from a lack of automation?

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A good stock management system means the difference between blowing the budget and having control over costs - not to mention that implementing an effective stock control system automates and streamlines stock processes, eliminating the tedious task of manually entering data.

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So, let’s take a more in-depth look at these issues and how a stock management system can solve them once and for all.

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1. Automated Stock Control For Dental Practices: What Is It & How Does It Work?

A dental practice can track and manage stock in two ways: the hard way and the easy way.

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Tracking and managing stock manually (the hard way) is time-consuming, error-prone, and inefficient. In contrast, automation (the easy way) ensures that your practice runs lean and efficiently while staying on budget.

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That’s why implementing a stock management system goes far beyond the bells and whistles.

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Dental practices utilizing automated stock control can streamline operations, including stock counting, order placement, tracking, and shipping.

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Despite this, 95 % of Australian dental practices track their inventory manually! (That’s why Invedent is proud to be Australia’s only stock management system specifically designed for dental practices).

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If you’re used to counting and tracking stock manually using giant Excel spreadsheets, you may ask yourself what automated stock control is all about.

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Imagine a jar filled with candies. You can painstakingly count each piece of candy, then recount to double-check, leaving ample room for errors.

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This is a common challenge that many dental practices encounter with stock management - manual processes often result in inaccurate counts, leading to frustrated staff members and decreased efficiency.