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Emmitt Nantz

Inventory Ally Co-Founder

Emmitt Nantz, MBA, is the Co-Founder of Inventory Ally and has nearly two decades of experience in the veterinary profession. Over his career, he has held leadership roles focused on hospital operations, business management, and process improvement. With a background in business and workflow optimization, Emmitt co-founded Inventory Ally to help veterinary teams better manage inventory, reduce costs, and streamline daily operations.

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your guide to backorders in veterinary practices

Inventory Management Practice Management

Emmitt Nantz • 25 Sep 2026

Your Guide to Backorders in Veterinary Practices

The worst time to figure out how to handle a backorder is after the product is already unavailable. By then, someone is checking three distributors, another person is asking the doctors what they can substitute, and someone else is wondering how long the two boxes left on the shelf are actually going to last. Practices…

when the person who runs your inventory leaves

Inventory Management Practice Management

Emmitt Nantz • 24 Sep 2026

When the Person Who Runs Your Inventory Leaves

When your inventory manager gives notice, you aren’t just losing a person. You may be losing the system. They know your reorder points by memory. There are products they watch more closely than others. They remember which vendor to use, what to substitute during a backorder, when seasonal demand starts to change, and make dozens…

How Much Inventory Should Your Practice Actually Carry?

Inventory Management Practice Management

Emmitt Nantz • 17 Aug 2026

How Much Inventory Should Your Practice Actually Carry?

The short answer: most published benchmarks suggest a general practice should carry roughly 30 to 45 days’ worth of inventory, which works out to turning your stock over 8 to 12 times per year, with total inventory costs landing somewhere between 18% and 24% of gross revenue. A useful gut check is that the value…

Veterinary COGS

Inventory Management Practice Management

Emmitt Nantz • 29 Jul 2026

Veterinary COGS Explained: A Practical Guide

Here’s a scenario that probably sounds familiar: your practice had a great year. Appointments are full, the team is running hard, revenue is up. And yet somehow, when you look at what’s actually left at the end of the month, the numbers feel underwhelming. Where did it all go? A big chunk of the answer…

Starting a Veterinary Practice- A New Owner's Guide to Your First Year

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Emmitt Nantz • 2 Jul 2026

Starting a Veterinary Practice: A New Owner’s Guide to Your First Year

By the time you’re reading this, you’ve probably already wrestled with the big, intimidating stuff: financing, the lease, the licensing paperwork that made you question a few of your life choices. Those decisions get most of the attention because they come first and the stakes feel enormous. But the part that shapes what your days…

5 Inventory Tasks Your Clinic Might Be Overlooking

Inventory Management Practice Management

Emmitt Nantz • 11 Jun 2026

5 Inventory Tasks Your Clinic Might Be Overlooking

The cabinet’s empty mid-appointment. A box of vaccines expired last week and nobody noticed. The order that was supposed to arrive Tuesday is still sitting in someone’s email drafts. Inventory becomes a fire to put out rather than a system to run. The tasks that prevent those fires are rarely the dramatic ones. They’re quiet,…

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