At 9:00 a.m., the warehouse of Sinopharm Jiangsu Co., Ltd ("Sinopharm Jiangsu" for short) was already a busy scene: cold chain trucks drove smoothly into the special road gate, the operator held a terminal to quickly check the order; 24-meter-high three-dimensional shelves, the multi-layer shuttle car along the track glided quickly, and sent boxes of medicines to the sorting line accurately.
"With the recent high incidence of influenza, there is a high demand for related medicines. As long as we receive orders, we will ship and distribute them quickly." Staff introduction.
This giant "warehouse" is also the provincial logistics center of Jiangsu.Every year, more than 5 million boxes of medicines are shipped from here to the province's second and third level hospitals, pharmacy chains and even the whole country.The drugs we buy in hospitals, pharmacies, and internet platforms may come from here.
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A pill, from the pharmaceutical company "birth", after what "journey", in order to safely and timely arrived at the hospital or retail pharmacy, until the hands of patients?
Behind this, without the support of modern pharmaceutical logistics system. State-controlled Jiangsu is one of the key members -As a wholly-owned provincial company of Sinopharm, the enterprise has built a logistics network covering the whole province.It can realize "half-day delivery" in the province, providing stable and efficient supplies for medical institutions and pharmacies at all levels.
The core engine of this logistics network is the logistics center located in the Pharmaceutical Valley of the new district.
This logistics center, which will be commissioned in 2022, is also the hub logistics warehouse of Sinopharm Holdings in Jiangsu, with a total floor area of more than 20,000 square meters, including three-dimensional warehouses, multi-penetration warehouses and cold storage warehouses.Can store 350,000 boxes of drugs, annual throughput of 5 million boxesThe
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Such a giant "medicine warehouse", step into it, but few people shuttle. Stacker, robotic arm and long conveyor line, a variety of intelligent equipment, will be a box of medicine smooth transportation.
"From inbound to outbound, we can doFull process automation." The head of the logistics center introduced.
Take a batch of drugs just sent from a pharmaceutical company as an example, from the time of storage, the system will intelligently allocate the optimal storage space according to the attributes of the drugs, and those that need to be preserved in the cold chain will be transferred directly to the cold storage.
There is also no need for labor to carry medicines during storage. Previously, the handling of medicines relied on manual driving forklifts to complete, operational efficiency is not high, there will also be a problem of manpower deployment during peak periods. Now, several submerged automatic guided robots (AMR forklifts) in the warehouse flexible through, they can intelligently plan the route, autonomous pickup, the drugs quickly and smoothly sent to the corresponding warehouse.
Once a pharmaceutical order is received, whether it is for a full case or retail, the system automatically plans the picking path, labeling, and distribution, and can be ready for shipping in as little as a few minutes.
Intelligent technology, for the safe circulation of each grain of medicine "escort", it is the state control Jiangsu "hard power". According to reports, the logistics center is the province's modern pharmaceutical logistics benchmark warehouse.The vast majority of drug categories, from proprietary Chinese medicines, chemical drugs, to insulin and biological products that require strict temperature control, are within the scope of transportation of the state-controlled JiangsuThe
"For example, almost all of the anti-flu drugs that people have recently purchased from Jingdong and other Internet platforms, such as Sulfadia, have been shipped out of our warehouse." The head of the logistics center cited an example.
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The significance of this "medicine warehouse" is just storage and distribution?
Of course, not just "delivery of drugs". If you look farther, behind the logistics center, there is a broader network: State Control Jiangsu's business set of medical institutions, direct sales, retail direct sales, provincial distribution is equal to one, the pure sales network of drugs serving the province's second and third-tier hospitals and other medical institutions, the end market is basically covered by the province's chain of pharmacies and retail pharmacies in the community. This also means that they can alsoProviding diversified commercial services to national pharmaceutical enterprisesThe
"The life and health industry is inherently high-commitment and long-cycle, so if every pharmaceutical company builds its own logistics and warehousing system that meets national standards, it will be a heavy operational burden, not to mention building a distribution network." The relevant person in charge of State Control Jiangsu said, "Having us provide services canReducing distribution costs for small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies, as well as enabling innovative products to reach the market efficiently, so that innovative pharmaceutical companies can focus more on research and development itself.."
As the person in charge said, professional people do professional things, a professional logistics hub is also an indispensable link in the industry chain. At present, the state-controlled Jiangsuhas accumulated nearly3000 customersMany pharmaceutical companies in the new district also entrust the transportation of medicines and raw materials to this place.
This logistics center not only protects the daily medication of thousands of families, but also makes the industry's road of innovation lighter and more robust.
