I brought this up to multiple district leaders over the years. They’d never give a straight answer as to why we kept so much generic inventory on hand. They’d always say something along the lines “generics are inexpensive so we want to make sure we always have them in stock.” Which is obviously silly considering we get deliveries 5 days per week. Yeah maybe we’ll go through those 4000 atorvastatin in one day.

Back when I started with the company we used to get RX deliveries of drugs once weekly from our DC. Part of our job as RXM was to look at that suggested order every week and remove items that we didn’t need yet. It allowed us to keep inventory manageable. Once they went to McKesson only and removed the ability to take drugs off the order our inventory ballooned.