Stock-outs, expiry, and ordering across many suppliers
For a pharmacy the cost of a miss is higher than for a shop: a missing item is not lost margin, it is a person who left. Meanwhile the catalogue is huge, suppliers number in the dozens, and some items carry their own dispensing rules.
How it works today
- Orders are assembled by hand across several suppliers, each in its own format.
- Stock-outs are recorded when a customer asks, not before.
- Dated stock sits until the last moment because nobody looks at it per location.
What changes
First the system checks what a transfer from the hub or a neighbouring pharmacy can cover; only the remainder becomes a purchase order.
Own-brand items, prescription lines and seasonal cosmetics follow different ordering rules — configuration, not a separate project.
Each supplier gets their own order, in their own format, on their own weekday. No shared spreadsheets for suppliers to pick their lines out of.
Where to start
At ASLPharm we started with hub allocation and ordering for one group of suppliers; the write-up is in the customer story.
Show us one critical process. We will show how it runs here.
We look at your cycle: how an order is assembled today, who decides, where time leaks and what the system takes over.