Pharmaceutical logistics in China has just started, but the rapid development, and soon become a hot field of medicine circulation. At the same time, it is worth noting that restricts our country to recognize the main reason for the development of pharmaceutical logistics, in order to better serve China's pharmaceutical logistics services. Experts said that the current main obstacles the following three areas:
Technical barriers
Technical barriers restricting China's pharmaceutical logistics main reason: the level of information behind. In developed countries, the Internet-based information technology, network technology is quite advanced, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers can share information through the network so that the data can be quickly and accurately transfer, greatly improving inventory management, handling and transportation, procurement, ordering, distribution, order processing automation level.
In China, the application of information technology is still in its infancy, it is not logistics information systems, lack of mutual links and information sharing, far from reaching the level of information required by the logistics operations. Although many pharmaceutical suppliers, brokers, retailers, hospitals and pharmacies are all equipped with a computer, but most do not form networks with each other, and thus play a very limited role.
Medicine production enterprises, commercial wholesale enterprises have not yet formed a unified coding pharmaceutical standards. China is not yet standardized coding of materials in various fields were developed its own logistics coding, with the result that can not be passed between different areas of intelligence, computer can not networking, thus impeding the effective implementation of the system of logistics management, the pharmaceutical industry is no exception.
Whether it is business enterprises, medical institutions, designed and coded, or the General Logistics Department of the Ministry of Health and other organizations design code, are self-contained, so that only within their own system, and are not compatible with each other. Drugs enter a different chain stores, correspondingly printed on their code. Into the supermarket without a prescription, it was incorporated into the supermarket coding system. Between different chains, incompatible with the supermarket chain between bound to cause low efficiency of information processing and circulation, which is troubled by logistics another big problem.
Institutional barriers
Development of pharmaceutical logistics business, there are some institutional barriers: Business Policy and Drug policy is not complete. State Drug mechanism allows cross-regional chain management, you can remote-owned chain stores for vertical management and logistics, and, in the company's chain setup is not contrary to the "Company Law". But, according to the policy of the business sector, is a branch of the same legal entity established in the same area range are all subsidiaries, rather than chain. Lack of coordination between such a policy is bound to restrict the development of the pharmaceutical business of logistics, because the development of the logistics industry depends on the development of large pharmaceutical chain enterprises.
Pharmaceutical market administrative division, local protection seriously, and modern logistics industry is repulsive. Modern commercial logistics requirements break regional boundaries, absorb the latest achievements of modern science and technology, the information technology revolution applied to e-commerce, the specialized division advance to a higher level, in a wider context rational allocation of resources. And in a market segmentation state, tend to form "large", "small" wholesale business, its organizational form of logistics decentralized, inefficient, high consumption, this is bound to implement regional pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises, cross-industry, cross-sectoral and cross-ownership of large enterprise groups adversely affected.
The concept of obstacle
Pharmaceutical logistics in China has just started, due to the impact of the traditional system and the historical baggage of its service concept, management level compared with market requirements, there is still a wide gap. Many industry people territories, including some leaders included, still do not have a correct concept of logistics, that logistics is the "transportation plus warehousing," how to strengthen the logistics management, how to design in line with modern requirements of development, industry-specific information, network logistics center, but also lack of sufficient knowledge; some blind confidence, that as long as a variety of information management system is a modern logistics.
Indeed, information is the basis of logistics, but if the lack of effective management of the enterprise, it can not effectively integrate upstream and downstream resources, not timely delivery to improve service quality, not very well set up Crystal brand image; if the firm basis of information without a corresponding and timely manner within the business process reengineering, no corporate structure, innovative organization, then such a logistics enterprises in the competition will also defeat.