Example from DunsterpublishedLead builder wantedPosted Nov 7, 2026
One hub, many stores: central fulfilment for a pharmacy network
Retail pharmacyPharmacy fulfilment (pick, count, pack, label)Indoor transport (AMR, AGV)Palletizing and depalletizingA network of sitesExploring
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The need, in one paragraph
A regional pharmacy network wants one automated hub to fill routine, non-urgent prescriptions for dozens of stores, so each store keeps a pharmacist and a smaller counter team. The hub needs picking, counting, packing, labeling, order consolidation per store and a verification station.
Dossier
Goal
Move 60 to 70 percent of routine fills out of the stores into one hub that runs two shifts, with next-day delivery back to each store.
What hurts today
Every store duplicates the same counting and packing stations and the same hiring problem. A hub lets the network buy one well-engineered cell instead of fifty partial fixes, but it needs a lead builder who can take the whole flow from stock receipt to the store tote, including the consolidation and the paperwork.
The process, step by step
- Orders arrive electronically from the stores overnight.
- Pick, count, pack and label each prescription.
- Verification: a pharmacist checks a sample or every order, depending on the drug class.
- Consolidate by store into sealed totes with a manifest.
- Stage totes for the morning route.
- Objects
- Same products as a store back room, plus store totes, manifests and seals.
- Variability
- High SKU count, moderate order-size variance, strict chain-of-custody rules for controlled substances.
- Presentation
- tote
- Required outcome
- Zero mis-fills, complete per-order audit trail, totes staged by cut-off time every day.
- Rate
- 10,000 to 20,000 prescriptions per day across two shifts.
- Environment
- warehouse
- People nearby
- Shared: people within reach, no contact as part of the task
- Sites
- 1
- Shifts per day
- 2
- Units per day
- 15000
- People on the task
- 25
- Cells or lines
- 4
Comments and proposals
Comments are public. Builders can post a proposal: how they would break the need into parts and who would lead. Prices never go here; a priced RFQ collects sealed bids.
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