Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Ending manual expiry checks across a pharmacy chain
- Client
- Regional pharmacy chain
- Industry
- Pharmacy & Life Sciences
- Technologies
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This is an illustrative example. It describes the kind of problem we take on and how we would approach it — not a specific client engagement. No client is named or implied, and the outcomes listed describe what the delivered system does rather than measured results from a particular project.
What was not working.
Expiry losses were discovered after the fact, during stock takes. Controlled items were recorded in a paper register that could not be cross-checked against dispensing. Reordering was reactive, so fast-moving lines ran out while slow-moving stock aged on the shelf.
How we would tackle it.
- 1
Make batch the unit of stock
Track quantity by batch and expiry date rather than by product, which is what makes proactive expiry alerting possible at all.
- 2
Bring the controlled register in-system
Digitise the controlled substance register so every dispensing event is reconciled against received stock automatically.
- 3
Reorder from actual movement
Set reorder points from observed sales velocity per branch rather than a single chain-wide figure.
What the delivered system does.
- Expiry and near-expiry alerts raised before stock is written off
- Controlled substance register reconciled against dispensing automatically
- Branch-level reorder points driven by actual movement
- Wastage and margin reporting available per branch and per product
Built on Pharmacy Management, Point of Sale.
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