Texas Equine Veterinary Association

#121 NAVIGATING THE EQUINE INVENTORY MAZE: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS Travertine Room Speaker: Shane Newsom Effective inventory management is critical in equine veterinary clinics, where inventory costs rank second only to salaries. Despite its importance, many clinics disregard their inventory, leading to inefficiencies, increased costs, and insufficient stock levels. This presentation will explore the challenges and benefits of managing inventory at equine clinics, offering practical strategies to improve daily operations and overall cost of goods sold. Drawing from over eight years of experience as an inventory manager, I will share proven techniques to streamline inventory processes. These insights come from trial and error in multiple practices. Topics will include weekly inventory counts, calculating turnover rates, and developing max/ min stock levels to prevent overstocking. From these strategies our clinic has achieved only a 2% shrinkage rate and a significant decrease in COGS, even as the practice has doubled in size. By the end of this presentation, attendees will gain actionable insights into optimizing inventory management that will ultimately improving operational efficiency and financial performance in equine veterinary businesses. Granite Ballroom Join us for a State of TEVA update and the recognition of the incoming and outgoing Board of Directors. Tradeshow Closes at 1:00pm STATE OF TEVA LUNCHEON 10:30am–11:20am SATURDAY August 2 continued 11:30am—12:50pm CEU: 1 30 #122 PHYSICAL, LAMENESS, AND PRE-PURCHASE EXAMINATIONS PART 3 Limestone Room Speakers: William Moyer, DVM, ACVSMR; Sam Crosby, DVM; Harry Werner, VMD PART 3: The art of "hands on " physical exams conducted during both lameness and pre-purchase exams has been in decline in recent years. Technological viewing modalities and computerized lameness aids have been substituted instead of a thorough physical exam. These technologies have added tremendous value to equine practice but are very expensive to the practitioner as well as the client and they are unable to diagnose the source of pain. In this day and age litigation is becoming more commonplace and involves increasing amounts of money in respect to lawsuits over pre-purchase exams. The authors (Dr. Moyer, Dr. Werner, and Dr. Crosby) have a combined 137 years experience in equine lameness exams, and in this presentation , will show the value of a thorough physical exam as well as keeping meticulous records in avoiding litigation. 10:00am–10:30am BREAK IN THE TRADESHOW Granite Ballroom Snacks and Refreshments will be available in the Granite Ballroom. Please use this time to visit our vendors.

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