Case Studies

REQUIREMENTS

The pharmaceutical manufacturer approached RGIS because there was a large quantity of rejected products accumulating in one of the distribution centres in Mexico. There was no information held internally about the products, so the customer required RGIS to provide the following:

• Count all products within a specified area of the distribution centre
• Obtain information about product condition and expiry date
• Sort products into the relevant laboratory
• All data to be captured and reported electronically
• Adhere to current COVID-19 guidelines

SOLUTION

The pharmaceutical manufacturer partnered with RGIS to complete the organisation of returned products project, and provided the following:

• RGIS scheduled a team of 10 experienced auditors for eight weeks on 10-12 hour shifts
• Relocated largest boxes to a specific area to sort
• RGIS auditors worked alongside warehouse staff, removing items from boxes and scanning all products in the boxes
• All data was captured for each product including expiry dates
• Products were then repackaged and boxes were clearly labelled with the contents
• A number was assigned to each box, so that within the electronic files there was the information of the products inside the boxes as well as the box numbers per pallet
• Once all boxes were counted and data captured, they were placed in pallets and racks

RESULTS

The pharmaceutical manufacturer found by outsourcing the organisation of returned products project to RGIS, the following results were achieved:

• Accurately counted a total of 3.4 million items
• The situation evolved from boxes piled in rooms with no access to them and no information of the content, to DC organisation with products on pallets, identification on the carton boxes and data on the content of every single carton box
• The customer was very happy with the performance and asked RGIS to do the inventories of another two sections of their new distribution centre