Pharmaceutical care for doctors, hospitals, patients and health insurance companies
Logistics center for pharmaceuticals and medical products
Initial situation:
BergApotheke's main task as a pharmacy operating nationwide is to provide pharmaceutical supplies to doctors in private practice, hospitals, patients and health insurance companies.
Starting with the original project in 2014, BergApotheke's central logistics center has been continuously expanded since 2014. During ongoing operations, the number of workstations in all areas has been and continues to be increased, storage capacity has been increased and functional expansions and adjustments to changing business processes have been made.
Solution:
Conveyor technology connects incoming goods, packing stations, pharmaceutical final inspection and automated small parts warehouse. This includes two separate miniload areas - two aisles for storage at room temperature below 25°C and two special cooling aisles for storing products at a temperature of 2 to 8°C.
An empty container buffer automatically supplies the workstations with empty containers.
Picking is carried out by put-to-light. Before dispatch, all items are also scanned once again in order to finally compare the delivery information with the data from UniWare WMS. Additional logistical functions for the batch-accurate provision of order items for reliable traceability are already included in UniWare as standard.
Prescription drugs are checked for saleability by UniWare with the central securPharm database before dispatch. The sealed packages are automatically transported from the pharmaceutical final inspection platform to the goods issue area on the first floor.
Technology and key figures:
- UniWare warehouse management system (WMS) with integrated material flow control system (MFS) and system visualization (VISU)
- Host interface to Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Automated small parts warehouse with a total of 4 aisles and
- approx. 14,600 storage locations at normal temperature
- approx. 6,000 storage locations refrigerated
- Double-deep storage of 600x400 containers and quadruple-deep storage of 400x300 containers.
- Container conveyor technology from goods receipt to goods issue with
- Pharmaceutical final inspection
- Empty container buffer with container stacker
