To Jeri Lynn Bartha, good inventory management means her ASC—Endoscopy Center of Niagara (ECNI) in Niagara Falls, New York—can do what it was designed to do. “Essentially, everything we have is crucial to performing cases, right down to a syringe,” says Bartha, who has more than three decades of supply chain experience and serves as the ASC’s certified endoscopy technician. “When you learn a piece of equipment you need is backordered, that is a threat to your operation.”