Strasbourg's University Hospitals Select Aldata for Centralized Logistics

Aldata Solution, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for the retail industry, today announced Strasbourg’s University Hospitals (SUH) will deploy Aldata G.O.L.D. Stock warehouse management system for the management and distribution of products for 250 operational units within the six hospitals that are supplied by SUH in order to improve efficiency and meet traceability obligations. The project will start immediately.

An initial evaluation of SUH’s logistics resulted in a series of organizational recommendations including the construction of a new 22,000-square-meter distribution facility as well as a software solution to manage and support their stock and central pharmacy, catering, transport, depot and waste treatment services.

For the real-time management of its distribution activities, SUH chose the Aldata G.O.L.D. Stock warehouse management system and a mobile RFID solution from CIPAM, a member of the Aldata Mobility Alliance, for hospital equipment management. Many of these activities will be executed on multi-modal PDA terminals giving SUH the option to deploy voice-directed operations and benefit from additional efficiencies.

Delivery and laundry trolleys will be equipped with RFID tags for traceability management within SUH’s logistics network. In addition, warehouse management functions will integrate and communicate with the on-board computer systems of the Auto-Guided Vehicle network that serves the different hospital functional units. In the future, Aldata will also support the implementation of an automatic dispensary, which will prepare prescriptions for each individually named patient.

In line with European healthcare traceability legislation and SUH’s own stringent quality standards, the Aldata and CIPAM solution will enable the hospital to ensure traceability of all its products and specific operational flows via the use of traceability indicators, outgoing flow indicators, serial numbers, batch recall, traceability of secondary flux flows and follow through of urgent orders.

About Strasbourg’s University Hospitals

Strasbourg’s University Hospitals consists of the Nouvel Hôpital Civil and the hospitals at Hautepierre, Lyautey, de L’Elsau, de la Robertsau and CCOM. Total bed capacity is 2,540 and the group employs 11,000 people.

About CIPAM

With more 15 years of experience, CIPAM conceives and realizes specialized solutions for integration of traceability and mobility applications combining various identification technologies like 1D or 2D barcodes, RFID, vocal solutions. Our applications are installed within great French and international groups in spheres of activities like industry, automotive, aeronautics, logistics, health, transport, pharmacy, petrochemistry and distribution. For more information, visit www.cipam.com.

Aldata 100% Retail-Wholesale

At Aldata 100% of our business is dedicated to retail and wholesale business improvement. We provide our customers with modern, flexible and integrated software solutions specifically designed to increase productivity, performance and profitability. With over 24,000 successful installations across 52 countries, from convenience store to hypermarket, 480 live warehouses and customers with 5 to 5,000 outlets, we consistently deliver the goods for retail and wholesale business improvement. Aldata Solution is a public company quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange with the identifier ALD1V. More information at: www.aldata-solution.com.

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