American pharmaceutical logistics model
In the us, where the market is 10 times larger than China's, there are only five primary drug wholesalers in the country, with three of them - AmerisourceBergen, CardinalHealth and McKesson - accounting for more than 90 per cent of the us market. The drug retail market is dominated by RiteAid, Walgreen and CVS, with a market share of more than 60%. Currently, the medicine circulation rate was 3%, the sales profit margins of 2.4%, and there are more than 16000 pharmaceutical wholesale enterprises in China, with annual sales of more than 50 million yuan less than 5% of the enterprise, top 10 accounts for only 20% of the total market sales in the wholesale business, the national pharmaceutical commercial enterprises average flow rate was 12.56%, the sales profit margin of 0.6%. Such contrast shows that there is a huge gap between China's medical circulation scale and the technology of circulation and the United States, which represents the advanced level of the world.
In the United States, about 65% of prescription drugs by wholesale enterprise distribution, drug distribution enterprises handles 250000 orders a day on average, 10 million messages, 125000 distribution agencies, the next day delivery response rate is as high as 95%, with 99% accuracy, the delivery of each order item cost only 0.3 cents. As one of the largest companies in the United States Johnson & Johnson has built three automated stereoscopic warehouse in New Jersey, is responsible for the $14.9 billion order processing of the drug and drug distribution, only 160 employees, distribution costs accounted for only 0.5% of drug sales income.
The information construction of American pharmaceutical logistics
The informationization of traditional enterprises in the United States is reflected in the application of ERP in American pharmaceutical logistics enterprises. ERP has the advantage of loopholes "job specification, process flow, reduce", using quantitative index to realize scientific management, process of drug purchase, financial accounting, production, sales process indicators, such as decision analysis system for real-time control, realize the resource sharing, improve the management level of pharmaceutical logistics enterprises. Along with the development of the Internet, ERP system and extend the function of supply chain management (SCM) and customer relationship management (CRM), realization of pharmaceutical production circulation patterns change, pharmaceutical enterprise production, management, management is organically together, from the procurement of raw materials to the sale of drugs, all information on the Internet for organic integration, further established the leading position of the American medical logistics informationization in the global.
The development of pharmaceutical logistics in the United States has implications for us
The informational construction at China s pharmaceutical later than 15 ~ 20 years, Europe and the United States developed countries pharmaceutical enterprise has long been with the method of manual processing business information, at present China's chain drugstores level is not high, can not adapt to modern social development request. Pharmaceutical circulation information construction in China are old, distribution centers and computer information management system is not sound, expand the scale and management ability does not match, the lack of professional talents, lack of effective chaining business management system, economic efficiency is not high, select the third party logistics partner heavy surface light inherent problems, such as to choose suitable for the situation of China informatization construction mode, is the key to the development of medical informatization in our country.
In the past 50 years, Chinese enterprises can draw on American experience and shorten this process greatly.
The experience of the United States is worthy of our study. One is to formulate the standard system of service standards for enterprises, and modify the system dynamically according to the needs of users. The second is to combine with upstream and downstream enterprises to establish cooperative partnership; Third, select third-party logistics partners to reduce costs by using the scale efficiency of specialized logistics. From the point of the pharmaceutical industry, China's drug prices high and the development of pharmaceutical logistics maturity, lower drug prices in urgent need to enhance the efficiency of medicine circulation, Chinese enterprises should strengthen the concept of total cost in the logistics management, mainly in some key areas of produce logistics cost to make the necessary calculation and trade-offs.