Healthcare distribution automation

Healthcare distribution operations face growing pressure to deliver more products, faster and with fewer errors all while maintaining strict regulatory compliance. Swisslog designs warehouse automation that improves inventory visibility, increases throughput and helps healthcare distributors deliver products safely, efficiently and reliably, even at the lowest unit of measure.

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Swisslog and AutoStore have been really good partners throughout that process, allowing us to meet changing requirements and strengthen our position as a supply chain leader.

Daniel Schwartz, VP Engineering, Medline

Move healthcare logistics faster. Reduce risk.

Improve inventory visibility. Empower a lowest unit of measure (LUMs) strategy with greater inventory visibility through SynQ software.
Protect sensitive inventory. Automation minimizes handling and reduces accidents—without reducing speed.
Increase fulfillment speed. Robotic solutions can handle orders faster and more accurately than manual processes, with goods-to-person automation increasing pick rates up to 3x compared to manual picking. Automation also keeps workers out of unpleasant cold storage environments.
Future-proofing operations. The right automation scales to meet SKU growth and shifting demand, the way it has for Cardinal Health’s 14,000-SKU at-Home Solutions network.

Why healthcare distributors choose Swisslog

Lifecycle partnership. Our partnership doesn’t end at implementation. Swisslog field services and call center support are always available throughout the life of each automation solution. We’re here to help you get the very most from your automation.
Experienced integrator. Swisslog is a leading automation integrator with decades of experience designing healthcare distribution solutions.
Built for compliance. Automation solutions from Swisslog help healthcare distributors meet evolving regulatory requirements while improving inventory visibility and traceability.
Trusted reliability. Our healthcare automation solutions are designed with redundancy and are supported with lifecycle services to maximize uptime,. This same commitment to dependable operations helped Medline achieve 2-4x pick rate improvements and next-day delivery to 95% of U.S. customers.