Manual warehouse maintenance takes up a lot of valuable working time—have you ever calculated how much time you spend on it? Some of your colleagues have done just that: around one full-time pharmacy technician is busy daily with incoming goods, subsequent deliveries, and orders.

It’s obvious: the time saved by automating all these work steps could be enormous. Instead of putting packs into push-pull columns, an automated dispensing robot could take over these work steps, freeing up valuable working time that could be invested in other value-added activities. Have you ever thought about expanding your cosmetics advice service? Or investing more in social media and digital marketing? What about updating your regular customer data? These are precisely the topics that have been neglected due to a lack of time.

Pharmacists also benefit from the time saved through automation. “Revolutionising our operations, The BD Rowa™ Smart has ushered in an era of instantaneous stock-taking. Its external loader, BD Rowa™ Easyload, has been a game-changer, dramatically slashing the time spent on packing stock, thereby amplifying our efficiency and productivity.”- Raj Rohilla-owner of Goys, The Chemist, pharmacy in London.

Thanks to the immense time savings, a dispensing robot no longer only pays off for larger pharmacies. Our tip: Write down how many hours a day you spend on stock maintenance, subsequent deliveries, ordering and returns processing and compare these with the reference values of automated pharmacies. This will give you a good idea of whether the time savings would also pay off for your pharmacy.