Category 1: Platelet Panic
This product expires faster than leftover sushi.
What are platelets?
The most common blood type in Canada.
What is O positive?
This common planning mistake assumes demand never changes.
What is a flat forecast?
The unofficial phrase that starts every CBS planning meeting.
What is "Your Muted" OR “Can you share your screen?”
The national organization responsible for Canada’s blood supply (easy one).
What is Canadian Blood Services?
The number of days a platelet can be stored before expiring.
What is 5 days? (7 day shelf life - 2 day processing)
The shelf life of red blood cells at CBS.
What is 42 days?
The CBS planner’s best friend — and worst enemy — during planning week.
What is Excel?
The #1 ingredient in a healthy planning culture.
What is trust?
The province that manages its own blood system separate from CBS.
Bonus points if you know the organizations name (Jking)
What is Québec (Héma-Québec)?
This event happens when planners forget a holiday and demand spikes.
What is a platelet shortfall?
When you overcollect RBCs and undercollect platelets, this supply chain imbalance occurs.
What is an inventory mix issue?
The term for unexpected shifts in hospital demand that make planners question reality.
What are demand spikes/shocks?
When a planner catches an expiry risk before it happens, the team calls this a _____.
What is a win?
The CBS product that supports plasma protein therapies.
What is source plasma?
The typical CBS group used when the platelet shelf is half empty and teams start to worry.
What is "Platelet Alert Group"
The strategy of aligning collections to actual hospital demand rather than fixed targets.
What is demand-driven planning?
The graph that shows inventory rising and falling like a heartbeat.
What is a sawtooth diagram?
The leadership style that puts employees first, with the goal of inspiring ownership and problem-solving.
What is servant leadership?
The purpose of CBS’s national inventory strategy.
What is to ensure equitable access and supply continuity across Canada?
The biological reason platelets can’t be frozen or stored long term.
What is they lose function due to lack of nucleus and metabolism change?
The tool or process that CBS uses to align forecast, collections, and production each month.
What is the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process?
The process of continuously monitoring, adjusting, and aligning short-term plans to reality.
What is Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE)?
The key cross-functional link that keeps supply, demand, and operations aligned.
What is collaboration?
The year CBS was founded following the Krever Inquiry.
What is 1998?