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.

Offline capture in our mobile app covers exactly four operations, and a stock count is not one of them. The count screens are on the phone and they work — they just need a live connection, because a count is not a delta like the other four, and because a stock freeze is a promise a disconnected device cannot make. For a branch pharmacy with weak signal that is the most important sentence in any demo.

Our asset register knows who holds the cold-chain unit, where it is, what condition it was in at the last hand-off and when a person last laid eyes on it. It does not know when it is next due for calibration — and the reason is more useful than a flat absence: the machinery that watches a date arrive is built and running, for batch expiry, quotations, purchase orders and invoices. It is simply not wired to assets.

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. At one in the morning a scheduled job recalculates it from thirty days of recorded usage and writes its answer over yours. Whether that helps or quietly disarms your low-stock alerts depends on one thing nobody mentions in a demo: which transactions count as usage.

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.