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Fulfillment automation (WES)

The Amazon fulfillment playbook — pharmacy-grade

Pharmacy Flow turns every order into dispatchable work — receiving, putaway, moves, picking, sortation, packing — orchestrated across people and machines from one live Control Tower.

At-home patient volume is climbing into the thousands of shipments a day. The tools most pharmacies use record work; they don't run it. Pharmacy Flow adds the execution layer — a warehouse execution system (WES) that sequences orders into waves, dispatches each task to the best available worker, and shows the whole floor in real time.

Everything the fulfillment floor does

Receiving

Inbound tasks with lot/expiry capture and QA quarantine before anything reaches a pick face.

Putaway

Directed putaway by velocity, zone, temperature, and hazard class.

Inventory moves

Replenishment and bin-to-bin moves triggered by pick-face min/max.

Picking

Waved, zone, and batch picking with pick-path sequencing and goods-to-person support.

Sortation

Automated sortation and scan-label-apply-manifest (SLAM) into carrier lanes.

Packing

Carton selection, cold-chain packout, and pack-verify at the station.

People and robots, one system

Every worker — a technician with a handheld, an autonomous mobile robot, a crossbelt sorter, an AutoStore grid — is the same thing to the dispatcher: a resource with capabilities. Machines pull their next task from an API and report completion, the same task humans work from the screen. Automate one station or the whole floor, add robots incrementally, and never rebuild.

The compliance overlay Amazon never needs

This is the difference: the Amazon motion, run to pharmacy compliance. A live Control Tower shows what's flowing, what's stuck, and who — or what — is working on it.

Frequently asked questions

Do we need robots to use this?+
No. It orchestrates human labor today and delivers value immediately; robots and automation plug into the same task API when you're ready.
Which automation vendors can integrate?+
The resource model is vendor-agnostic. A thin adapter connects AMR fleets, sorters, and AS/RS systems to the task API, so new hardware plugs in without changing the core.
How is this different from a WMS?+
A WMS records inventory; a WES executes work in real time. Pharmacy Flow is both — the system of record plus the live dispatcher.
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