SHIP HEALTHCARE Group's business and SDGs_Osaka Solution Center

SHIP HEALTHCARE Group’s business and SDGs

Next-generation medical material logistics, Osaka Solution Center

Value logistics, Future medical
“Smart Medical Solution”

Contribution to SDGs

Osaka Solution Center (Kadoma, Osaka)

Medical Supply business -daily provide medical consumables to medical institutions.
We jointly developed the latest technology with the cooperation of the partner companies as a place for the open innovation, to be a capital of the cutting-edge initiatives as the main distribution center of medical materials in Kansai area.
We will develop various industry’s first solutions toward the realization of "Smart Medical Solution" that solve medical logistics issues from multiple perspectives including automatic logistics equipment such as automatic guided vehicles (AGV), automated warehouses, and medical material management with RFID technology, etc.

Auto-promoted distribution center fully utilizing RFID technology -Floor map

Conventional supply system of medical materials

Problems to be solved: Shipment and arrival work including picking work which takes a lot of manpower and time
Our Solution: Achieve labor-saving and error-free medical material supply by automated operations

We provide medical materials to medical institutions every day in Medical Supply business. Many people are involved in the management of medical materials until they reach the patient, and each item is manually packaged and managed not to mistake the type of materials delivered to the hospitals. These conventional operations require a great deal of labor and time, and with concerns about labor shortages in the future, countermeasures to improve this situation are required to continue to support medical scenes.
In Osaka Solution Center (OSC), we automate a series of operations from arrival to shipment by adopting cutting-edge automatic logistics equipment, significantly reducing the burden on staff and at the same time improving inventory efficiency and productivity. This new initiative developed in OSC provides a stable supply of medical materials to medical institutions throughout the Kansai area, and is making a significant contribution to strengthening regional medical service.

Problems to be solved: Optimizing medical material supply by tracking the actual usage history from the arrival to shipping
Our Solution: First attempt in medical materials industry,
Managing all medical materials with RFID

Osaka Solution Center manages tens of thousands of medical materials.
As first attempt in medical materials industry, all packaged medical materials have RFID tags on them for the data management. By using RFID tags, inventory can be managed at all times, making it possible to supply medical materials more safely, accurately and quickly. At the same time, it is possible to easily manage expiration dates and usage history also in the hospital.
In addition, we will utilize the big data accumulated by associating the movements of these materials, and will contribute to the realization of traceability of medical materials and SCM* in the future by operating Osaka Solution Center.

*SCM (Supply Chain Management): A management method that optimizes the overall distribution of raw materials, components, and products by sharing information such as ordering, inventory, sales, and distribution within the company or with related business partners.

Problems to be solved: Keep medical materials sanitary until the delivery
Our Solution: First attempt in Japan, Spraying antiviral spray when the arrival

The sanitation of things has become more important due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Medical materials are delivered to medical institutions and used for medical treatment, so they should be managed in a cleaner condition than others. In Osaka Solution Center, the medical materials are always kept sanitary situation by spraying antiviral spray for sterilization when they arrived. This is the first initiative in the logistics industry in Japan and will fulfill the needs of sanitation of things that will be important in both under current COVID-19 crisis and after COVID-19 crisis in the future.
Through these advanced initiatives, we will provide new value in medical materials supply.

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