【Classic Case】Smart Warehousing Solution for Pharmaceutical Industry
Founded in 1938, this pharmaceutical enterprise is among China’s earliest manufacturers engaged in chemical pharmaceutical business. As business scale kept expanding, the old logistics center suffered from low automation and informatization, outdated operation modes, insufficient storage capacity and heavy labor reliance, gradually becoming a bottleneck restricting corporate growth. To keep pace with industry trends and meet rapidly rising business demands, Zhongtian Intelligent Equipment partnered with the client to build a pharmaceutical smart warehouse.
After thorough investigation by our technical team, oriented toward business requirements and centered on cost reduction, efficiency improvement and intelligence upgrading, we carried out systematic planning covering smart equipment deployment, information system integration and forward-looking industrial considerations to design a tailor-made smart warehouse for the client.
Pharmaceutical warehousing and logistics impose stringent requirements on storage and logistics environments and must fully comply with GMP standards. In daily warehouse operations, goods are stored separately according to status, application and properties of pharmaceutical products. Temperature and humidity are strictly controlled to prevent mildew, pest infestation and other contamination of medicines. Stacking methods and spacing are defined based on product categories to minimize cross-contamination caused by mixed storage.
The automated stereoscopic warehouse of this project is 76 meters long, 10 meters wide and 22.7 meters high, with 2,464 pallet storage locations. It successfully shifts from the traditional “man-to-goods” mode to the “goods-to-person” mode, transforming manual operations into standardized, systematic automatic workflows. This greatly boosts operational efficiency, cuts labor intensity and reduces human errors, enabling high-efficiency and high-speed order picking and distribution.
This customized smart warehousing solution developed by Zhongtian Intelligent Equipment makes full use of the existing warehouse space and adapts to the characteristics of pharmaceutical material warehouses. It effectively addresses low space utilization, difficult picking, poor turnover efficiency and rigid workflows, reshaping conventional pharmaceutical warehousing operations. Moving forward, Zhongtian Intelligent Equipment will keep deepening technology R&D and focusing on client pain points. We will continue to cooperate with customers and upstream & downstream partners to accelerate digital transformation and high-quality development for the pharmaceutical industry.