INTERNAL SUPPLY CHAIN Material flow in the hospital's internal supply initiated with deliveries from manufacturers and distributors to the hospital receiving area (see the left side of Exhibit 1), and then continued from the receiving area to the central store and to the "floors," or "par locations" (supply rooms on hospital floors where inventory 1 Lisa Schencker, "Northwestern Ranked Illinois' Top Hospital, according to U.S. News," Chicago Tribune , August 7, 2017, www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-illinois-hospital-rankings-0808-biz-20170807-story.html. 2 Medicare and Medicaid are two social insurance programs run by the U.S. government, created to serve older and lower- income Americans unable to buy private health insurance. 3 Emerson Electric Company, Metro@ and ARC Healthcare Technologies Work Together to Provide Northwestern Memorial Hospital with an Unparalleled Inventory and Storage Management System (Wilkes-Barre, PA: InterMetro Industries Corporation, 2014), accessed April 8, 2019, https://archit.com/pdfmh-case-study.pdf. This document is authorized for use only by WANTING LU in OSCM taught by Anand Nair, Northeastern University from Aug 2023 to Dec 2023