Efficient Healthcare Logistics for the Highest Supply Reliability
Healthcare distribution ensures that medicinal products are where they are needed reliably, quickly and traceably. KNAPP supports pharmaceutical wholesalers, pre-wholesalers, producers and distributors dealing with optics, dental, surgical and hospital supplies as well as hearing aids with modern healthcare logistics. Our solutions combine intelligent automation, audit-proof processes and seamless IT integration. We know how to create efficient, scalable pharma logistics from goods-in all the way to the last mile.
Our healthcare logistics bring competitive advantages
Companies in the healthcare sector today can achieve more than ever: greater availability, maximum process reliability and supply that people can depend on.
Partnering with KNAPP means enhancing your healthcare logistics with technologies that raise efficiency, take the strain off employees and create transparency in every phase of the supply chain – for performance at a whole new level. With decades of experience in pharma logistics, our business is to develop and implement solutions that grow flexibly with your business, ensure the highest quality and get every delivery reliably to its destination.
Bernd Angerer, Matthias Dalkner,
Martin Steiner
Vice Presidents Healthcare Solutions
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New dimensions in pharma logistics – our successful concepts for pharmaceutical distribution
All in shuttle: A single system for the entire flow
The all in shuttle concept creates an end-to-end highly automated storage system for modern healthcare logistics. At its center is the Evo Shuttle, a powerful, automated small parts warehouse that handles storage, retrieval, sequencing and consolidation. As the central source, the Evo Shuttle supplies the many different picking and processing technologies – from the Pick-it-Easy work stations to the Pick-it-Easy Robots to our proven Central Belt System with A-frame technology – rapidly and efficiently with all the necessary items. All the SKUs, whether prescription, over-the-counter, aerosols or veterinary medicinal products, are managed in one uniform system. With up to 300,000 lines/day, 200,000 SKUs, and a degree of automation exceeding 90 %, the concept offers maximum performance, storage density and process reliability for pharma logistics. Operating costs are lowered through energy-efficient components and condition-based maintenance which raise availability. Successfully used at leading pharmaceutical distributors such as Novaltia in Spain and Apotek 1 in Norway, the all in shuttle concept has proven its talent for high performance under real-world operating conditions and is a great fit where scalable, future-proof solutions for the highly dynamic supply chains in healthcare are needed.
Omnichannel fulfillment: Destination “sorted” with the pocket sorter system.
The AutoPocket provides highly flexible omnichannel processes for pharmaceutical wholesale, pharmacy supply and e commerce. Items are individually received into the system, temporarily stored, sequenced and consolidated with orders. The system includes automatic emptying of the pockets, volume-optimized packing and integrated VAS steps. The system can process a wide variety of items, from sensitive healthcare products to cold storage goods at 2–8 °C (35.6–46.4 °F). At the same time, both retail and e commerce processes are connected in an end to end highly transparent workflow.
With capacity of 6,000+ items and up to 20,000 orders per hour, the pocket sorter offers maximum flexibility, extremely short cut-off times and zero defect quality supported through automated scanning, weighing and photographing of every step.
Companies like Limedika use the pocket sorter system architecture to keep their healthcare logistics efficient, scalable and error-free every day.
Pallet and case handling: Zero-touch distribution for pharmaceutical wholesale logistics.
Our pallet and case handling concept forms the basis for powerful healthcare logistics for full case handling. Here, the entire material flow is automated, from depalletizing to compact storage to precise distribution across locations. Cartons are automatically identified, moved and sorted, almost entirely eliminating manual handling by the employee.
Because of the high storage density, complete transparency using barcodes and scalable performance (2,500 to 10,000+ cartons/hour), the system is ideally suited to growing product ranges, new generics and complex temperature zones, including cold-storage items at 2–8 °C (35.6–46.4 °F). The zero touch approach minimizes ergonomic strain, lightening the load significantly for employees, which is a central benefit in the face of rising personnel shortages in pharma logistics.
Market leaders like Avosano bank on automated case-handling technologies so their healthcare supply chain runs reliably and efficiently.
Healthcare distribution: The right model for every challenge in healthcare fulfillment
Healthcare distribution: One central system for all healthcare segments
Conventional solution designs for healthcare distribution are often based on a central small parts warehouse, for example, the powerful Evo Shuttle or the agile AeroBot.
Both of these systems serve as a source supplying all the connected picking stations and process modules with items. This means the many different requirements for items in the dental, hospital, surgical, optics sector and other segments can all be handled using one end-to-end architecture with consistent quality and compliance standards.
Whether you need higher throughput or maximum flexibility: The right storage technology ensures that goods flow efficiently and are completely traceable and seamlessly handles integrated processes such as kitting, special packaging and VAS steps.
References:
All-in-one pharma value chain at VOIGT
Mediq: customized goods-to-person solution
DFG: Automation and zero-defect strategy
Together with VOIGT – now Avosano – KNAPP unites two pharmaceutical business models in one integrated solution for healthcare and pharma logistics. The automated, reliable and scalable all-in-one solution raises efficiency and strengthens the entire pharmaceutical value chain.
Mediq supplies patients and healthcare facilities with customized medicinal products and services. The case study shows how using the sophisticated shuttle technology by KNAPP allowed them to centrally and efficiently unite the great variety of products, services and delivery conditions in one warehouse.
As the central supplier to more than 360 pharmacies in Spain, DFG relies on a highly automated pharmaceutical warehouse that masters the extreme peaks, drastically reduces errors and maximizes efficiency, speed and availability around the clock.
References:
All-in-one pharma value chain at VOIGT
Together with VOIGT – now Avosano – KNAPP unites two pharmaceutical business models in one integrated solution for healthcare and pharma logistics. The automated, reliable and scalable all-in-one solution raises efficiency and strengthens the entire pharmaceutical value chain.
Mediq: customized goods-to-person solution
Mediq supplies patients and healthcare facilities with customized medicinal products and services. The case study shows how using the sophisticated shuttle technology by KNAPP allowed them to centrally and efficiently unite the great variety of products, services and delivery conditions in one warehouse.
DFG: Automation and zero-defect strategy
As the central supplier to more than 360 pharmacies in Spain, DFG relies on a highly automated pharmaceutical warehouse that masters the extreme peaks, drastically reduces errors and maximizes efficiency, speed and availability around the clock.
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Pharmacy automation means...
Seamless process reliability
Highest supply reliability
Every item handled efficiently
Precision kitting and set building
Scalability without risk
Zero defect quality
Short lead times
Lower operating costs
Global service network and a reliable partner
Our International Customer Service looks after your logistics system – around the globe, around the clock, 365 days a year. Discover more about our services, from seamless support to optimizing your system!
FAQ
Automation ensures that sensitive healthcare products are processed in a manner that is free from error, traceable and compliant with applicable regulations, even when processing high volumes or when there is a personnel shortage.
Can you process prescription drugs, OTC, cold-storage goods and high-value items in the same system?
Yes. State-of-the-art storage systems using shuttles or AeroBot technologies manage all product groups in controlled areas and fulfill requirements related to temperature or high-value security.
All the relevant data is automatically scanned, documented and verified. Serialization, UDI, COP and high-value approvals are an integral part of the process standard.
Yes. Our architecture supports our native KiSoft as well as SAP with minimal interface complexity – including stable on-premise options.
This is achieved through modular architecture. A shuttle storage system for high performance, an AeroBot system for agility: both types of systems scale for both size and performance and are readily adapted to new portfolios, services or concepts.
