@BAURéaLS-MichelRemon&Associés
Faced with the need to modernize hospital logistics, hospitals and university medical centers are adopting automated solutions to optimize supply chains and reduce costs while improving the quality of care. Robotics, particularly the SCALLOG Goods to Person solution, meets the sector’s specific demands by streamlining stock management, preparations, and returns, while freeing healthcare staff from logistical tasks. This innovation ensures optimal traceability, immediate availability of critical products, and improved working conditions for staff. Finally, it enhances the overall performance of healthcare facilities and their appeal to medical professionals.
Faced with the imperative need to improve the quality of care while optimizing organization and controlling costs, many French hospitals and university hospitals are equipping themselves with floor logistics dedicated to care and operating rooms, an essential link as close as possible to caregivers and patients. This last-metre logistics represents one of the key levers in care units and operating theatres to centralise and optimise the many inherent supply flows - medicines, medical devices, supplies, etc., to avoid shortages, waste and above all to free up caregivers' time by freeing them from administrative tasks and travel. Indeed, between 5% and 30% of caregivers' time is spent on restocking medicines, transporting sterilization, etc., without floor logistics, according to the ANAP Agency. Today, the modernization of this critical logistics - care and operating theatres - requires automation, including in particular the Goods to Person SCALLOG robotics – from shelves moved by robots to logisticians, which meets the safety and performance requirements of the technical platforms of hospitals and university hospitals!
Automating according to the specificities and requirements of hospital logistics from the last metre!
Automation in floor logistics, managed by dedicated professionals, appears to be the most relevant response to the optimization of flows, costs and labor shortages. However, it must meet many imperatives related to the hospital world, from the environment to practices; the Goods to Person robotic solution complies with this in all respects, as in the context of the BAUréaLS project of the Lyon Sud Hospital. In hospitals and university hospitals with rehabilitation and renovation projects, the automation of floor logistics must blend into an existing space, which is often constrained and of reduced height; the Goods to Person solution of the SCALLOG type is easily integrated. Without any work on the building, it blends into a small area, while being in perfect compliance with the rules of the art of hospital hygiene such as the elimination of cardboard, dust, etc. In addition, the performance of the automation solution must guarantee the immediate availability of the requested product; a request from the operating room cannot wait. The Goods To Man robotic solution meets this challenge of criticality and speed of flow processing with flying colours : in a few minutes, the logistics company picks up and prepares the emergency order! In addition, the automation solution must manage a wide range of references, sizes, formats and weights, from catheters to surgical instrument boxes, with "flawless" traceability. Once again, the Good to Person SCALLOG robotic solution stands out by managing a wide variety of references, guaranteeing a real pooling of storage and preparations – medicines, medical devices, consumables, etc. In addition, the Goods to Person robotic solution is resolutely agile and flexible to absorb fluctuations in activity according to seasonal variations, including more hospitalizations in winter. Finally, it is illustrated in the management of return flows, which is far from negligible – more than 30 to 40% of the items taken out for a patient's surgical operation are not used and therefore returned.
Innovate to optimize its logistics performance and employer brand.
A true contract warehouse, the robotic zone according to SCALLOG centralises, manages and automates the storage, preparation and management of returns of supplies for care and surgical procedures. It optimizes the flow of incoming and outgoing supplies and preparations, while improving the working conditions of logistics staff and de facto care units. Thus, the Goods to Person robotic solution infuses floor logistics with the best procurement and storage practices; flows are optimized, orders rationalized and SKUs managed in the best possible way, guaranteeing optimization of logistics costs. There are no more product shortages and waste, from emergency deliveries to expired products. Automation according to SCALLOG is also key to reducing arduousness and improving the working conditions of logistics providers. The products come to them, via shelves transported by robots; They take and prepare, without unnecessary gestures and movements. In a sector with a chronic resource shortage, SCALLOG robotics makes it possible to promote a new profession, the care logistician, so that caregivers can devote themselves to their core business, care and interactions with patients. According to the CHU du Québec, one hour invested in logistics frees up 2 hours in care. At the heart of the performance of floor logistics, the Goods to Person robotic solution allows the hospital or university hospital to gain in efficiency in its technical platform with better services at the best costs, while giving meaning to the work of caregivers. Finally, the Goods To Man robotic solution represents a key lever for the employer brand of the hospital or university hospital, which "frees up time" for caregivers in order to give meaning to their work in order to attract and retain them.
And tomorrow, home hospitalization, a real alternative to the continuity of medical care, which is constantly developing, at the request of hospital services and patients. Once again, logistics are crucial and there are many constraints for effective remote health care according to patients' health needs – new logistical organization, preparation of the necessary drugs and devices in "just in time", delivery in compliance with "good practices". In this field, the Goods to Person robotic solution will have a key role to play in optimizing processes and practices in dedicated logistics centers in order to ensure the patient an ever more fluid and personalized care pathway!
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