Controlled Picking of Medications at Spital Thurgau

The history of the cantonal hospital can be traced back to the year 1823; since 1999, it has belonged to the then newly founded Spital Thurgau AG.

Around a decade later, the modern healthcare provider introduced a solution with Ontego that was able to significantly improve warehouse processes in the medication area. Small-scale picking has always been a challenge in this area: Clinics, institutes, and wards must be supplied with many goods at short intervals. With paper documents, this was a time and cost guzzler par excellence.

Ontego provided a remedy: developed specifically for classic internal logistics processes, the data is kept permanently synchronized with the leading SAP system, ensuring optimal warehouse utilization.

The pharmacy of Spital Thurgau is now among the 10 largest institutes of its kind in the Swiss healthcare landscape. Not least due to this high standard, Ontego was able to stand out in the selection process for the mobilization of SAP processes. The standard software could be introduced quickly and precisely even in this specialized environment; the necessary interfaces to SAP were available, and the function modules did not have to be adapted. Complete focus on the mobile process. And the Motorola devices used also prove to be capable tools in everyday hospital life.

The Key Facts:

• 12 mobile devices with special requirements in the hospital environment
• Simple solution, easy to operate, quickly introduced
• Paper-based picking completely replaced after 2 months