Optimal material management
Digital tools for optimising your procurement and logistics processes
Solutions for almost all challenges in the field of management
With SmartLogistics, we offer a range of solutions that have been specially developed for the healthcare sector. Thanks to our many years of experience, we have developed logistics systems that optimally map management and logistics in hospitals, retirement homes and nursing homes.
SmartLogistics solutions offer you:
- Complete relief of nursing staff from logistical tasks
- Transparency of material inventory and consumption in every department
- 60% reduction in storage volume
- Halving of management costs
- Automated ordering processes
- Dynamic demand assessment
This is how it works:
AutoInventory – Scale-based management solution
AutoInventory uses digital, maintenance-free vibrating wire scales to determine the actual stock and consumption of materials. This is used to calculate the effective consumption and automatically place orders, taking into account order cycles, weekends and public holidays. This means you will never again risk shortages, because AutoInventory knows which goods need to be ordered earlier or in larger quantities, e.g. due to upcoming public holidays. These requirements are ordered seamlessly via the merchandise management system. This ensures that you always have exactly the materials you need on site.
Our automatic ordering system covers all aspects of daily hospital ward supply with its wide range of functions.
AutoInventory offers you a wide range of benefits:
- Optimal supply processes through automation
- Maximization of order and inventory quality
- Factual elimination of express orders
- Automatic inventory, possible daily live from the system
- Transparency with regard to the consumption per ward
- Reduction of process costs
- Rapid amortisation – within 2 years
- Reduction of stock by approx. 60%.
- Reduction of the stock value by approx. 50%.
- Existing storage racks and module cabinets can be reused
- Caregivers completely relieved of logistic secondary activities
- Relief of logistics through clean processes, no returns, etc.
- Unification of the wards possible, expenditure of time when loading and purchasing the items is minimized
Efficiency through the elimination of process steps
AutoInventory was developed for the requirements of the healthcare sector. It can be used in any type of facility and offers the following advantages:
- Efficient management processes
- Reduced workload for logistics
- Reduced workload for nursing staff
- Error-free, media-break-free process
- Solutions for hospitals
Automate demand assessment in the wards. You can also equip other areas with AutoInventory. Automated management is suitable for almost all items and can be used in almost all areas of the hospital.
- Completely relieves nursing staff of logistical tasks
- Reduces the logistical burden
- Can be used in all types of wards
- Also suitable for consumables in the operating theatre
- Efficient processes and optimal care
Equip the wards or central warehouse of your nursing home with AutoInventory and take the pressure off your nursing staff. The system can place orders even without an existing merchandise management system, even with different suppliers. Everything is handled via a central platform.
- Freed staff from logistical tasks
- Reduced logistics costs
- Suitable for central warehouses and ward warehouses
- Integrates different suppliers
Build long-term customer loyalty while reducing your logistics costs. AutoInventory is installed in the nursing homes you supply or directly at a location of your choice. The system orders the required items fully automatically, without the need for intervention by your staff. This allows you to work with less frequent deliveries and avoid expensive express orders.
- Reduces logistics costs through maximum order accuracy
- Elimination of express deliveries and reduction in order frequency
- Increased customer loyalty
- Can be used for ward-based management, in nursing homes or at any desired collection point
Equip parts of your warehouse with AutoInventory. The system automatically takes inventory, independently ensures replenishment and also improves the picking process: if a picker removes the wrong item or the wrong quantity, the system detects the error and alerts them.
- Prevention of picking errors
- Reduction of inventory costs
- Ensuring continuous availability of stock
Combine your installation with ScanInventory for even greater efficiency.
ScanInventory - Minimal investment costs
The scanner-based management solution – either for simple requirements (classic module management) or for special processes, such as consignment goods in the operating theatre, etc. Simply have the scanner to hand and the items are managed in a guided, adaptive process that adapts to your needs. When calculating the replenishment quantity, the system takes into account the dynamic order parameters for all products and suggests the required quantity.
References
Since 2014, two bedding stations and eight laundry stations have been managed using over 2,000 AutoInventory scales.
Since 2015, eight wards, one intensive care unit and consumables in the operating theatre have been managed using over 3,800 AutoInventory scales.
Since 2017, 17 wards in two hospitals have been managed using over 2,100 AutoInventory scales.
Since 2017, six wards have been managed using over 1,900 AutoInventory scales.
Since 2019, two bed wards have been managed with over 500 AutoInventory scales.
Since 2018, wound care materials have been managed in the central warehouse using over 100 AutoInventory scales.
Optimal ward management at the SPZ
AutoInventory, the automatic ordering system for ward supplies: The Swiss Paraplegic Centre (SPC) in Nottwil is making ideal use of the potential for optimisation.
Customers in Austria also rely on Wiegand solutions
The Graz Ragnitz Private Clinic, part of the PremiQaMed Group, has successfully introduced the AutoInventory automated ordering system. This marks an important milestone on the road to digital materials management.
Zollikerberg Hospital relies on AutoInventory
Thanks to the implementation of the logistics solution, supply logistics in the wards have been optimised and automated.
