Jan 02,2024
Deeply Cultivate Pharmaceutical Logistics Solutions, Continue to Enable Customers to Efficiently Go Abroad
As one of the key areas supported by the state and closely related to the lives of the people, China's pharmaceutical industry has not only become the world's second largest pharmaceutical consumer market and the largest exporter of raw materials, but also plays an important role in global medicine R&D and supply and other links. At present, the domestic pharmaceutical industry has formed a huge industrial cluster in circum-Bohai-Sea, the Yangtze River Delta, the Central Yangtze River Economic Belt, Sichuan-Chongqing region and other regions, emerges a large number of industry well-known head brands, and its investment and construction of biomedical bases and logistics centers have also been all over the country. According to the statistics of relevant departments and research institutions, the annual investment of logistics projects in the pharmaceutical industry is as high as 10 billion yuan.
Located in the core gathering area of pharmaceutical enterprises, Damon participated in the planning and construction of Wuhan Pharmaceutical logistics Warehouse project as early as 2013, taking this as an opportunity to enter the pharmaceutical industry, and has been deeply engaged for more than ten years. Damon has provided logistics automation solutions for Sinopharm Group, Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group, China Resources Pharmaceutical Group, Jointown, Yifeng Pharmacy, Dashenlin, Jianzhijia, Fujian Xinzijin, Yunnan YXT Health and many other well-known pharmaceutical enterprises, pharmaceutical commercial companies and pharmaceutical retail joint pharmacies, and accompanys the Chinese pharmaceutical industry through the "three decades of stirring" leap-forward development.
In this "Damon Has Words" program, we specially invited Damon intelligent logistics pharmaceutical industry logistics solution planning expert -- Manager Zhang Yujun, to share with you the challenges and solutions encountered by Damon in pharmaceutical logistics planning, and combined with the logistics pain points and demand changes in the pharmaceutical industry, and talk freely about how Damon intelligent logistics system solution and core equipment help pharmaceutical companies realize logistics automation exploration.
1） What are the pain points and difficulties in the pharmaceutical industry logistics?
- Industry compliance requirements are high
Pharmaceutical manufacture, storage, warehousing, transportation and other major logistics links have the relevant quality system monitoring, National Medical Products Administration and other relevant departments will be at any time for supervision and inspection. For example, pharmaceutical enterprises need to meet the certification of GMP good manufacturing practice , and pharmaceutical commercial companies or chain large pharmacies need to pass the strict verification of GSP Good Supplying Practice.
- Pharmacological category is manydiverse
With the rapid development of the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, there are tens of thousands of pharmaceutical development enterprises and countless pharmaceutical manufacturers in the country, with hundreds of thousands of pharmaceutical types, and the difficulty of pharmaceutical storage and transportation will be greatly increased.
- Pharmaceuticals have high standard to logistic environment
The storage and transportation of pharmaceuticals need to accurately control the temperature and humidity, the medical warehouse can be divided into cold storage, cool storage, room temperature storage, etc., according to the storage temperature of different pharmaceuticals, while the humidity needs to be maintained at about 35%-75%.
- Pharmaceutical logistics dismounting needs increase
With the rise of pharmaceutical e-commerce retail, the sales form of pharmaceuticals will be more and more scattered, so the demand for dismantling and picking pharmaceutical will be greatly increased, and the design difficulty of the corresponding logistics plan will be more and more difficult.
1） What aspects will be given priority to considering when planning a pharmaceutical logistics solution?
- Industry laws and regulations
Compliance is not only an important prerequisite for pharmaceutical business, but also the basic condition for Damon to design logistics solutions for pharmaceutical companies. At the same time, the quality control and compliance requirements of pharmaceutical logistics management software in the development process are also high.
- Business operation situation
Damon intelligent logistics solutions are serving the business development of customers, such as planning logistics solutions for chain large pharmacy , need to focus on the number of stores and average daily sales, store expansion speed and future regions and other factors.
- Investment return ratio
For the investment and construction of any pharmaceutical project, Damon will consider the investment income ratio brought by the project after completion and operation together with the customer's investment budget.
- Logistics equipment selection
According to the characteristics of medical customers' logistics scenarios, Damon selects pallet four-way vehicle system, carton-type multi-layer shuttle system, Miniload and other diversified equipment combinations to create customized personalized solutions that meet customer needs.
- Logistics software development
Since the pharmaceutical business requires the involvement of three-party logistics, Damon needs to consider how to develop software in the planning to achieve the linkage between the warehouse management system, the three-party logistics integration system and the cold chain real-time monitoring system.
3）How to deal with the challenges encountered in pharmaceutical logistics planning?
Due to the relatively large scale and volume of logistics projects in the pharmaceutical industry, customers have strict requirements for logistics flow and efficiency, and modern logistics equipment on the market is endless, and logistics planning is facing difficulties. Combining with the different needs of pharmaceutical customers, Damon innovates and uses advanced automation solutions in the project, combining AGV equipment, carton-type multi-layer shuttle system, pallet four-way vehicle system, robot picking system, cargo-to-person picking system and Damon's self-developed core products for conveying and sorting, supported by pharmaceutical logistics management platform. Realize intelligent storage, automatic picking and review and ex-warehousing, effectively respond to the logistics challenges of the pharmaceutical industry.
4）After the use of intelligent logistics system solutions, what improvement has been made on the material service of pharmaceutical companies?
For example, in the end sorting area of a pharmaceutical company Ningbo project, Damon adopts an power swivel wheel sorter to reduce the number of operators, and the sorting efficiency reached 3000 cartons/hour, which greatly improved the working efficiency compared with the original manual processing method. For example, in the Shandong project of a pharmaceutical commercial enterprise, Damon designs the operation mode of a double-layer cargo-to-person picking workstation, which can handle 300-400 order lines per hour, and the efficiency is more than 2 times higher than the traditional picking mode.
In the pharmaceutical logistics overall solution created by Damon for an innovative biopharmaceutical enterprise, Damon innovatively plans pallet stacker three-dimensional warehouse and pallet four-way cold storage, with self-developed WCS and four-way vehicle scheduling system, can support the project of nearly 10,000 pallets of raw materials storage +500 pallets of finished product storage.
Damon self-developed intelligent conveyor sorting equipment uses power roller and permanent magnet linear motor drive, compared with ordinary motors, energy consumption will be greatly reduced. It is estimated that planning 1-2km of i-G5 carton-type conveying line body can save 15%-20% of energy for customers, and it will benefit a lot from insisting on using it.
"In the future, Damon will continue to deeply cultivate the pharmaceutical industry, constantly improve the conveying and sorting product line, realize the globalization of hardware equipment and software systems and the globalization of solution planning, and the design standards of the logistics system meet the access requirements of overseas regional markets such as the United States, the European Union and Australia, assist customers sell their products all over the world, contribute Damon's strength to the development of pharmaceutical industry logistics." Manager Zhang said firmly.
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