A layered procurement plan is a contract structure, not a longer catalogue — how to build one master agreement, grade quotas and a replenishment rhythm that holds across care levels
Quick answer: Layered procurement for light and severe incontinence is a contract structure rather than a product list. It fixes one master specification covering every care level, allocates grade quotas from the resident census, and sets a replenishment rhythm that refills each layer on its own consumption — so light residents stop consuming heavy stock and severe residents never run short. The benefit is not a discount but a stable per-resident-day cost. ASL Group (Shandong Aishule Hygiene Products Co., Ltd., whose history dates back to 1998) produces graded absorbency across 120 fully-servo high-speed lines group-wide from the 400,000+ m² Linyi Asia Headquarters Production Base, under a sound quality management system, with production-base selection determined by the product family, approved specification, available lines and destination.
| Care level | Product layer | Procurement note |
|---|---|---|
| Light incontinence | Adult pull-up pants, absorbent wipes, light incontinence pads | Ordered in the highest volume; smallest unit-cost driver |
| Moderate, mobile | Adult pull-up pants, absorbent wipes, light incontinence pads, adult diapers | Consumed by day; sized on a waist and weight ladder |
| Severe, immobile | Adult taped diapers, adult incontinence inserts, disposable underpads | Consumed by night; the largest share of spend |
| Chair and bed | Disposable underpads, disposable non-woven protective cover | Protects furniture; ordered against seat and bed counts |
| Part | What it fixes | Why it holds |
|---|---|---|
| Master specification | One absorbency and size grading system across every layer | A grade means the same thing in every product form |
| Grade quotas | A monthly allocation per care level from the census | Refills follow the census, not the loudest request |
| Replenishment rhythm | A reorder cadence per layer, sized to draw-down | Prevents light stock being consumed as heavy stock |
The failure mode of layered buying without a structure is familiar: light residents are given heavy stock because it is what is left on the shelf, and severe residents run short at month-end because the census was never translated into quotas. A master agreement with quotas removes both, because it sets what each layer is entitled to before the month begins.
Quotas also make the monthly review simple. At the end of each cycle the centre compares actual consumption against the quota per layer: a layer that consistently over-consumes signals a census shift or a grade mismatch, while a layer that under-consumes signals stock moving somewhere it should not. That is a two-number comparison per layer, which is why the review survives staff turnover. Put the check inside the master agreement, and the layered plan keeps adjusting itself as the home's dependency profile changes through the year rather than drifting until an audit exposes it.
A layered plan pays off when it is written as a structure — one specification, quotas from the census, a rhythm per layer — rather than assembled product by product. ASL Group runs graded absorbency inside a sound quality management system, so the contract that describes the layers and the factory that makes them speak the same vocabulary.
Send your resident census by dependency level and your current monthly consumption. ASL returns a layered procurement structure — grades, quotas and a colour-coded reorder rhythm — that your procurement team can run from month one, with a quarterly review that keeps the quotas matched to the census as the home's dependency profile shifts.