LogistikPlan Industry Sector: Medical Technology

Between industry and hospitals, integrated partnership-based solutions are required. In addition to attractive product conditions, users are increasingly focused on revenue optimization, process improvement, and demand-oriented logistics services. In the future, suppliers will achieve project success in delivering a medical technology system not only

• with functional testing of the installed system,
• with training of operating personnel,
• with the availability of all consumables and spare parts,
• but with economic efficiency for the users.

• Manufacturers must assess new products and treatment methods not only by medical success, but also by affordability and cost-benefit optimization across the entire medical application process.
• With innovative medical products and services, manufacturers must address future trends such as aging populations, ethnic diversity, and digitalization.
• The sourcing and distribution strategy of manufacturers, specialist wholesalers, and service providers must be aligned with GDP-compliant planning, sourcing, and distribution processes.
• To ensure continuous product availability in regional and global logistics networks, providers must more closely integrate their inventory data and supply processes with health care customers.

LogistikPlan’s long-standing know-how development is primarily based on project experience in the high-tech industry. Manufacturers of medical devices face comparably high requirements for cleanliness and hygiene, temperature control and precision, transparency, and documentation:

• Manufacturers of medical products and medical technology devices
• Suppliers of equipment for hospitals and laboratories, e.g. for
  • imaging systems for X-ray diagnostics and radiation therapy
  • fully automated hospital transport systems
  • measuring devices for laboratory analysis and in-vitro diagnostics
  • systems for ultrapure water treatment
• Manufacturers of mechanical, electronic, thermal, and optical sensors
• Specialist wholesalers and healthcare craftsmen for medical products (e.g. prostheses, orthoses, support aids, wheelchairs, and similar medical aids)
• Logistics service providers for
  • distribution of medical products
  • supply, returns, and repair logistics
  • installation of medical technology systems.

• An increasing number of pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers use data loggers for end-to-end transport monitoring to ensure transparency and compliance in the supply chain.
• Data loggers, for example, support compliance with WHO recommendations for vaccines that must be continuously stored and transported at temperatures between +2 and +8 °C.
• Electronic sensors transmit all relevant data to the cloud via mobile communication – from temperature and humidity to shock and theft.
• As a neutral planning expert, LogistikPlan takes responsibility for
  • the definition of requirements
  • the specification and tendering of systems (hardware and software), and
  • supporting the implementation.

• Factory planning for manufacturing workshops, R&D sites, and laboratories
• Logistics planning and automation of production and material flow
• Setup / expansion / reorganization of assembly stations (cell assembly, line assembly, workshop principle), test and measurement stations
• Optimization of material flow, labeling, and quality processes, consulting on cost reduction and setup optimization
• Optimization of sourcing, storage, and shipping logistics
• Implementation of customer-oriented (logistics) services for sales and after-sales.