erated storage area and a freezer. Med-Health operates
three inbound receiving bays and one outbound shipping
bay.
As items are received, they go through a quality assurance inspection to ensure that the drugs in the shipment are
correct and that the pedigree records for the material are in
place. Med-Health is required by the state to keep records
detailing where the pharmaceuticals came from, who they
were sold to, and in what quantities.
Once material is received into the SAP system, the system prints carton labels for the merchandise using SATO
America GT 412e bar code label printers. The labels
include the drug item’s bar code, nomenclature, and
Carton labels are printed by the SATO America GT 412e bar code label
printers and include the drug item's bar code, nomenclature, and National
Drug Code (NDC) and are used to track goods from receiving through
storage and shipment.
National Drug Code (NDC); they are used to track goods
from receiving through storage and shipment.
Product is then put away in the warehouse until an order
is received. Med-Health employees use Motorola MC9090
mobile bar code scanners to pick orders from close to 1000
pick locations, using a pick list generated by the SAP ERP
system.
SATO printers were selected, in part, because of their
two-dimensional bar code printing capabilities and the ease
of integration with SAP. Two-dimensional bar coding may
