Fast ROI with Bar-code based mobile solution for warehouses and depots for a large pharmaceutical company
About Client
Alkem Laboratories Ltd is a pioneer in the formulations segment of the Indian pharmaceutical industry covering both the acute and chronic therapeutic segments. Alkem currently exports its products to more than 35 countries including the regulated markets of EU, CIS and South East Asia.
Business Scenario
Pharmaceutical Industry faces multifold challenges in managing their warehouses. These include following FEFO rules for managing the inventory, dispatching the correct material, ability to know exact location of material, complying to defined rules on storing of specific medicines. In addition, The warehouse in-charge has to take care of optimum workforce and ability to track the work status of warehouse employees. From an IT standpoint, the solution should be easy to use, easy to maintain and no issues on integrating with the backend SAP.
Business Challenges
- Ensuring correct dispatches and adhering to FEFO to reduce wastages of unsold expired medicines. Pickers sometimes use to send wrong products or wrong batches.
- Efficiency of pickers and packers were not up to the mark.No transparency on the work done and wastage in looking for right bin or medicine wasted time.
- Audit was a cumbersome process. Matching the actual inventory and system inventory was time consuming and effort intensive job.
- Adherence to compliances like specific storage area for certain medicines needed continuous monitoring.
Solution
Cockpit for warehouse managers
- Cockpit for warehouse managers for complete visibility on activities at real-time.
- Generation and printing of all barcodes with configurable labels.
- Dynamic assignment of pick, pack and put users for outward and inward process
- Approval process of physical inventory document for stock write-off.
Inward Process
- Scan process of all incoming materials against any of the SAP document via mobile device
- Real time duplicate or wrong bar-code scan alert
- Matching of bins and material through bar-code to ensure 100% compliance.
- Real time confirmation of Transfer Order in SAP via mobile device.
Outward
- Possibility to enable 2 step picking on mobile device.
- Scan process of all outgoing materials against any of the SAP document via mobile device
- Real time confirmation of Transfer Order in SAP via mobile device.
Physical Inventory
- Scan process for all material barcodes for physical inventory.
- Submission of inventory count for approval and stock write-off.
Bin to Bin Transfer
- Complete bin to bin transfer
- Auto Transfer Order creation and confirmation after scan process is completed.
Benefits
- 100% accuracy in dispatches
- Increased efficiency of picking & packing per worker
- Shorter and smoother audit cycles
- 100% compliance to storage rules
Key asks from the solution
- A complete solution which can run on ruggedized devices
- Easy and real-time integration with SAP with no hassles of a middleware
- A user friendly application which needs less training efforts
- Scalable, Robust solution with good performance.
- Tools for the warehouse manager for managing warehouse efficiently
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