Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Distribution

One says what left the shelf. The other says who received it and whether they should have. Our batch trace answers the first properly — every movement, every location still holding it, quantities in, out and remaining. There is no patient anywhere in the product, so it stops at the door, and that is a boundary we intend to keep.

Our app holds a sale, a count line, a check-in, a check-out, a transfer, an asset movement and an approval through a dead connection. The count was the hard one to bring offline — a count is not a delta, and a stock freeze is a promise — and how that was solved is the useful part for a branch pharmacy with weak signal.

The asset register knows who holds the cold-chain unit, where it stands and when somebody last laid eyes on it. It also holds the date on the laminated card: a maintenance schedule that opens a work order before calibration falls due and chases the person responsible.

First-expiry-first-out is a sentence in a procedure manual and a suggestion at the point of issue. What decides whether it actually happens is which batch the system proposes when somebody is dispensing at four in the afternoon with a queue.

You type a minimum you are never willing to go below. Whether a nightly job may write over it is a question about who decides; here a typed figure is kept, till sales count as usage, and each warehouse can hold its own level. What a par level is, and where it should live.

A batch with four months left is stock you can sell if you move it now. A batch with four days left is a write-off that has not been declared yet. Most pharmacy systems hold both as the same number, and the day the difference becomes visible is the day it stops mattering.