Pharmaceuticals
Simple and efficient, ensuring safe pharmaceutical logistics
Pharmaceutical logistics is not simply the purchase, sales and storage of drugs or distribution of drugs. It is about integrating resources in the full chain of channels relying on equipment, technology and information system. By optimizing the operation process of supply, sales, distribution and transportation of drugs, Damon improves order processing capabilities, and reduces time cost and errors, so as to realize digitalization and intelligentization while reducing cost and improving efficiency. At present, many pharmaceuticals are still at the stage of single supply chain optimization, and most logistics projects for drugs to be marketed are still at the stage of internal integration and process optimization. These pharmaceuticals rarely involve integration of upstream production, downstream retail, and hospitals, thus failing to eliminate repeated transportation, bullwhip effect, inventory backlog, and other phenomena, leading to a series of problems such as low supply chain efficiency and high drug distribution costs.
Pharmaceuticals
Simple and efficient, ensuring safe pharmaceutical logistics
Pharmaceutical logistics is not simply the purchase, sales and storage of drugs or distribution of drugs. It is about integrating resources in the full chain of channels relying on equipment, technology and information system. By optimizing the operation process of supply, sales, distribution and transportation of drugs, Damon improves order processing capabilities, and reduces time cost and errors, so as to realize digitalization and intelligentization while reducing cost and improving efficiency. At present, many pharmaceuticals are still at the stage of single supply chain optimization, and most logistics projects for drugs to be marketed are still at the stage of internal integration and process optimization. These pharmaceuticals rarely involve integration of upstream production, downstream retail, and hospitals, thus failing to eliminate repeated transportation, bullwhip effect, inventory backlog, and other phenomena, leading to a series of problems such as low supply chain efficiency and high drug distribution costs.
The way to upgrade the supply chain of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Conveying of pharmaceutical raw and accessory materials and products.
Use a variety of light and heavy, conveying, and handling equipment to improve the circulation efficiency and reduce losses.
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Customize Optimal Solutions
Customize solutions for automated logistics according to the characteristics of various pharmaceutical companies.
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Commodity and Order Sorting
Core technologies and equipment performance of the system have reached the world-class advanced level.
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Intelligent Handling Robots
Being high-speed and flexible, it reduces pollution from manual handling, lowers costs, and improves efficiency.
Business Challenges
Meet GSP and GMP compliance requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.
Low efficiency and high distribution cost at the stage of single supply chain optimization.
The corporate internal process integration is at a low level, making it impossible to eliminate the phenomena such as repeated transportation, bullwhip effect, and inventory backlog.
The coexistence of B2C and B2B poses the requirement to meet the needs of multiple parties such as pharmacies and pharmaceuticals.
?Strict requirements for classified management and divided storage, and management of drug expiration dates.
Our Superiority
The fifth-generation i-G5 intelligent conveying platform, and mature technologies accumulated over many years.
The high-speed sorting technology meets multi-scenario and multi-party distribution needs.
The expandable modular design can achieve optimal solutions.
Support the storage and management of drugs of various shapes and characteristics.
Stable performance, with an extremely low error rate in sorting, conveying, and storage.
Case Study
RENHE GROUP
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Location: Zhangshu, Jiangxi
Area: 8,820 m2
JIUZHOUTONG GROUP
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Location: Jinan, Shandong
Area: Over 107,000 m2
HONGXIANG GROUP
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Location: Kunming, Yunnan
Area: 54,400 square meters
Project Profile
As a famous modern pharmaceutical group integrating reaech and development, production and sales of drugs and health products, the company integrates marketing channels and resources and builds a third-party smart pharmaceutical logistics base in order to realize the centralized management of multiple businesses. It provides fast comprehensive pharmaceutical distribution services by optimizing the processes of drug supply, sales and transportation.
Challenges for the Project
The B2C terminal business of this project is highly concentrated, requiring a large area of picking space. The large number of pharmaceutical e-commerce orders, complex categories and large flows in the explosive product area make it difficult for the existing warehouse to support the rapid distribution of a large number of e-commerce medicine orders. Large-scale picking tasks cannot be completed only by manual, and the medicine sorting is highly complicated.
Solution
Several i-G5 conveying lines are arranged in various areas, combined with electric roller diverters, and effectively cooperating with the AMR G2P Picking Solution to achieve omni channel performance. After parcels are sorted, telescopic belt conveyors are used to load them, and the dynamic balances are added for automatic weighing, which is convenient for settlement with parcel express companies. WMS plans the routine in real time and digitally manages the process of outbound delivery.
Application Effects
Two in one batch merging + dynamic control, and 6,500 pcs/h high-speed merging+6,500 pcs/h high-efficient sorting, greatly improving the system processing capacity. The automatic case sealing and labeling machine can handle 1,100 pieces per hour, reducing personnel’s input. The pallet lifts realize cross-floor handling with an efficiency of 40 torr/h.
Client Profile
A well-known pharmaceutical company has set up its electronic health industrial park project which covers an area of about 138 mu. Its total construction area reaches 280,000 m2. It has become one of the largest modern and famous pharmaceutical logistics centers in China, integrating pharmaceutical wholesales, medical device sales, pharmaceutical technology consulting, retail chain and e-commerce.
Challenges for the Project
The volume of medicine cartons is large. Most of the cartons are bound with packing tapes, and some of them are loose and fall off, resulting in frequent cases of box jamming, turnover, collision and so on, which causes high commodity sorting error rate, and poor delivery punctuality. And low level of digitization, and informatization in receiving, storing, dismantling, picking, and outgoing warehouses leads to large data processing volume. The cartons pile up and squeeze each other due to untimely receiving, which makes warehouse operation and management process complex and the logistics cost high. The unreasonable design of walking path brings about high work intensity and low efficiency when picking up cartons.
Solution
Damon has flexibly deployed i-G5 Modular Intelligent Carton Conveying Line with a total length of 5km, High-speed Shoe Sliding Sorter, Screw Belt Lift with one more in and one out, Narrow Belt Sorter and other core equipment for its sorting and distribution center, which has improved distribution efficiency and reduced sorting error rate. G2P Picking-up System is in line with ergonomic design, getting the conveying and picking-up capacity greatly improved and the manual operation intensity reduced. WCS can quickly get the connections with host system of the customer and collaborate with devices in the warehouse to achieve high-efficient performance of the whole process.
Application Effects
This project has been officially launched. The system runs for 6 hours on average every day and the equipment reliability exceeds 90%. Its conveying efficiency is 3,000 pcs/h which can bear the weight of 0.5-36kg, and its sorting efficiency can reach 6,000 pcs/h at most. The G2P Picking-up System can handle 800 order lines per hour for Class Super A medicines and 300 order lines per hour for Class B and Class C ones. The packing and checking efficiency can reach 250 order lines per hour to meet the demand of 100,000 order lines per day and support 13.5 billion annual turnovers of customers.
Client Profile
Yixintang is a brand of Hongxiang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Founded in 1981, the company has now developed into a large joint-stock pharmaceutical enterprise group integrating planting and processing of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, R&D, production, wholesale and retail chain operations of Chinese and Western patent medicine, and the medical industry. It manages more than 10 subsidiaries, with more than 2,400 direct-sale chain pharmaceutical stores in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Chongqing and other provinces and cities. In the future, the company will focus on the domestic market from a strategic perspective. Relying on its e-commerce businesses, it will build a marketing network integrating multiple online and offline channels
Challenges for the Project
The core requirement of Yixintang Pharmaceutical Group is based on the premise that the warehouse operation cannot be stopped during the transformation period. In order to not affect the normal sales operation of all stores and e-commerce platforms, the second phase upgrade project of the "Yixintang Pharmaceutical Group" logistics center warehouse clearly stated that "the warehouse of this project must be transformed while operating". At the same time, in order to avoid business losses of up to 10 million CNY per day caused by the shutdown of the logistics center, the entire project must be completed within 100 days, which included the SAP transformation and development, the installation and debugging of new and old software and hardware, the replacement of the old one with the new one, and putting the new one into service
Solution
For the logistics center of Yixintang Pharmaceutical Group, Damon Technology planned and designed a 1,500-meter automatic conveyor line running through the entire warehouse, 3 sets of automatic sorters with a total of 82 crossings, 160 vehicles for picking operations, 170 quasi-review stations, and an average daily cargo handling capacity of 400,000 order lines, which supported the distribution business of 2,500 stores in Yunnan and 8 logistics centers outside the province
Application Effects
The two parties implemented the mode of operations by day and testing by night to fully complete the installation and debugging of new and old software and hardware systems, and the replacement of the old one with the new one of the logistics center. The expansion requirements of the second phase were successfully met in only 100 days. After expansion and reconstruction, the total area of the Yixintang Logistics Center building reaches 544,09.6 square meters. There are four floors for the overall design after the second phase expansion, with two types of business logics, one which is mostly DPS (Digital Picking System) plus a small portion of DAS (Digital Assorting System), and one which is pure DAS, running in parallel. The center meets the logistics distribution needs of traditional business and e-commerce business at the same time
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