one day be expected on labels, so Med-Health will be prepared in advance
for any future changes in labeling
regulations.
As a new company, Med-Health had
the advantage of being able to deploy
the bar coding system without having
to replace any existing infrastructure
or redesign entrenched business
processes. According to Hames, the
implementation went smoothly.
“The only hurdles we faced were in
determining what we wanted the system to do and what information we
needed from the bar code scanners,”
Hames says. “The deployment was
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.
• NANO-MOLECULAR
FORENSIC MARKING
SYSTEM that can
instantly be SCANNED
with 100% ACCURACY
• MULTI-LAYER TRACK &
TRACE TECHNOLOGY
• TAMPER INDICATING &
AUTHENTICATION
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very smooth, and we completed the
project under the timeline that we had
planned.”
“The pharmaceutical industry is
very competitive, and the margins are
very thin,” Newman says. “
Med-Health has been able to utilize bar
code scanning and printing to create a
return on investment on its entire SAP
ERP solution by maintaining an accurate inventory and by minimizing shipping and receiving errors.”
“Once you know the bar code is
correct, you really can’t make any
mistakes,” Hames adds. “We’re confident that our orders are correct,
and we have full traceability within
the warehouse.”
The bar coding system has been
deployed in both the pharmaceutical
and medical supply warehouses, and
will also be used in the repackaging
facility later in 2008.
“We’re going to take advantage of
the experience we gained in the first
two facilities when we go live with the
repackaging facility,” Hames says. “We
expect that system to perform just as
well or better.” ■
