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10/15/2026

A stockout rarely starts the day the shelf goes empty.

It starts weeks earlier: a back-order notice with no connection to a unit's usage, a PAR level set to last year's volume, a count estimated rather than taken. By the time a nurse opens an empty bin, every remaining option is expensive.

We pulled together nine facts on how hospital analytics close that gap.

Nine facts on how analytics help prevent hospital stockouts, flag back-order risk 5 to 7 weeks early and give clinicians time back.

10/14/2026

Hospital Stockout Prevention: 9 Analytics Facts | BlueBin

Nine facts on how analytics help prevent hospital stockouts, flag back-order risk 5 to 7 weeks early and give clinicians time back.

10/14/2026

About BlueBin: Healthcare Supply Chain Transformation

BlueBin is a healthcare supply chain transformation partner and part of Capsa Healthcare. Turnkey Kanban, supply chain analytics, mobile warehouse technology, and BlueBelt certification for hospitals and health systems.

10/13/2026

Congratulations to Northeast Georgia Health System and The Queen’s Health Systems, both named 2026 Supply Chain Excellence Award recipients by Staritas and highlighted this week in Becker’s Hospital Review.

Supply chain excellence rarely makes headlines, but you see it every day: the right supplies on the shelf when a nurse reaches for them, dollars put back toward patient care, and teams that keep improving long after the project ends.

BlueBin is proud to have partnered with both of these organizations on their supply chain optimization journeys. Congratulations to their teams on this well-earned recognition.

See the full list of honorees: https://bit.ly/4rY9tcE

10/10/2026

Closing out Healthcare Supply Chain Week with a few more of our Ops team members, from the Walter Reed, Children’s National, and UnityPoint teams, out celebrating together.

They spend their weeks making sure clinicians find what they need on the first try. A few hours of celebration is the least they have earned.

To everyone on our Ops team, and to the supply chain professionals we work alongside: thank you. Happy Healthcare Supply Chain Week.

10/09/2026

Meet Arun at BlueBin and the imaging department he helped redesign.

Ask what the work looks like, and he points to a recent Radiology and CT build, where he and the team “were able to condense 5 supply rooms into two by removing excess and unused inventory, and optimizing supply levels.” A good share of it was detail work, like “a visual differentiation system to help nursing staff identify which items belong to department-specific cost centers.”

He is clear about why it mattered: the change “drastically reduces the distance that supply techs and nursing staff have to travel within the imaging department to gather their supplies and care for their patients.”

Thank you, Arun.

10/08/2026

Spotlight on De Marcus Ford, at BlueBin, supporting our program at UnityPoint Health in Des Moines.

Ask what the job involves, and the answer is direct: “I facilitate amongst nursing staff, supply chain, and hospital leadership to redesign the supply rooms while determining usage of each product.” A redesign touches a lot of departments at once, so a good share of the work is keeping all of them current.

He is clear about the reason: it “keeps every party in the loop of what is transpiring and alleviates any confusion on processes.”

Thank you, De Marcus.

10/07/2026

Four years this December. That is how long Collin Haskins has been a Program Specialist at BlueBin.

His days go into building and labeling supply units, then walking the live ones to confirm they are clean, stocked, and behaving as they should.

What he is proudest of is not the install but everything after: "continuous maintenance on all live units," spotting what has gone missing or been damaged, and finding room for what comes next. The point, as he describes it, is "showing our clients we are here to assist and care for the live units we work very diligently to create."

Thank you, Collin.

10/07/2026

Spotlight on Courtney Shifflett, Senior Program Specialist at BlueBin.

"Part of why I love my job is that no two days are the same," she says. A day might mean "analyzing hospital ERP data, coordinating with logistics teams to keep projects on track, training staff on standard operating procedures, or partnering with clinical teams to design supply rooms that better support patient care."

What she values most is that the role lets her work with the data and also "work with my hands to physically create and bring to life a system."

Thank you, Courtney.

10/06/2026

Meet Bastian L. Forsythe, Program Specialist at BlueBin, supporting the program at Ochsner Medical Center in Baton Rouge.

Day to day he helps "create and refine the hospital's supply replenishment system so clinical staff have access to the supplies they need." Much of that is "identifying and resolving everyday supply issues before they become larger problems."

Why it matters, in his words: "Clinical staff depend on reliable access to supplies throughout their shifts."

Thank you, Bastian.