Fully automated replenishment

Fully automated replenishment

BENU Pharmacy network, is a subsidiary of PHOENIX healthcare group, which is one of the largest European companies engaged in the wholesale distribution of pharmaceuticals.

The group operates in 27 European countries, where it satisfies the demands of thousands of business partners, mainly pharmacies and hospitals, but also pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, with its above-standard services and flexibility.

It operates approximately 400 branches in the Czechia and Slovakia, including its own pharmacies, franchise branches and an e-shop.

Fully automated replenishment

BENU SK turned to RiverBit with the aim of deploying a system for automatic ordering of pharmacy goods in order to ensure high availability of the product range for its customers.

 

The system was gradually implemented in all pharmacies and brought the following benefits:

1. Increase in the availability of goods up to 98% for the entire network of BENU pharmacies

2. Immediate impact of increasing the availability led to increase in sales by 5%

3. Optimization of inventory turnover time by 5% on controlled assortment

4. Automation of the ordering process and saving 1-2 hours a day at each pharmacy

5. The system brought an improvement of the sales/demand forecasting on both managed and non-centrally managed assortments

6. Quick return of the investment, up to 6 months

 

Fully automated replenishment