SLAM Members are Aiding the Pharmaceutical Industry
Article from MHI Solutions Magazine
The SLAM Industry Group, which focuses on the automation of scanning, labeling, applying and manifesting, has now started a new Pharmacy Fulfillment Committee to educate the pharmaceutical industry on how SLAM members can best handle the special requirements for handling prescription medications and other sensitive items.
The SLAM group is composed of companies that integrate conveyors, scanners, printers, robotics and controls to perform the SLAM process for a warehouse, said Alex Kinkade, senior manager of sales and marketing for MHI member StreamTech Engineering.
That entails identifying a package, gathering the dimensions and weights of that package, putting in the necessary documents, closing it, putting a shipping label or some sort of compliance label or multiple labels on it, and then verifying that it was done correctly before sorting it for outbound fulfillment, Kinkade said…
