For pharmaceutical enterprises operating across the entire value chain—encompassing production, distribution, and end-user delivery—advancing towards lean operations necessitates implementing a logistics solution that maximises spatial utilisation while accelerating order fulfilment. Recently, Zowell narrow-aisle logistics solution has been fully deployed at a pharmaceutical industry client, enhancing their competitive edge within the logistics sector.

Project Background

The client enterprise's principal operations encompass three core sectors: pharmaceutical manufacturing and research, hospital distribution, and nationwide logistics distribution. To further enhance the capabilities of its pharmaceutical warehousing and logistics centre, the client has constructed a new warehouse facility designed to manage the complex requirements of storing multi-specification pharmaceuticals and handling high-frequency stock turnover.

Project Difficulties

lWith business volumes continuing to rise, existing warehouse capacity has become severely inadequate. The company aims to fully realise the storage potential of the new warehouse facility, thereby resolving its storage challenges without incurring additional land acquisition costs.

l Customers face the pressure of high-frequency, large-volume warehousing operations and must respond swiftly to diverse order requirements.

l Pharmaceutical products demand exceptionally high standards of cleanliness in storage environments. Given their high value and fragility, they require environmentally sustainable logistics equipment capable of maintaining a high degree of stability during handling.

Zowell Solutions

In response to the client's logistics requirements, Zowell conducted thorough on-site investigations and delivered a bespoke narrow-aisle logistics solution. This solution incorporates three-way forklifts, electric stackers, and electric pallet trucks, comprehensively addressing the enterprise's internal logistics needs and enabling the client to achieve a full upgrade of their warehousing and logistics operations.

Within the height constraints of the warehouse, Zowell devised a narrow-aisle shelving solution, arranging 20 rows of shelving units within 1.85m-wide aisles to successfully create over 9,000 storage bays for the client. Utilising 6m-lift man-down three-way forklifts enabled the client to implement narrow-aisle storage operations, thereby resolving their storage capacity bottleneck.