Investigating automation and AGV in healthcare logistics: a case study based approach

Automated hospital pharmacy supply chain and the evaluation of organisational impacts and costs

“…In any case, it seems necessary to more systematically and more explicitly identify and value the gains (and costs) hidden by reallocating internal resources as also suggested by Batson et al (2020). This would increase the speed of the transformation of logistics practices and the performance achieved in hospitals where a lot has to be done to explore and understand the value of digitalisation and its impact on the organisation of flows, quality of service, working conditions, and skills acquisition and development for stakeholders (Ageron et al 2019). In any case, we hope that this article will contribute to advancing the reflexions around investments in hospitals' supply chain, be them in ADS or other digital equipment.…”

Digital supply chain: challenges and future directions

“…Digitalisation will transform working environments significantly. It will change processes in finance, sales, maintenance, logistic or supply chain by introducing new concepts of smart manufacturing, smart contracts and smart supply chain as well as increasing information sharing (Preindlet al, 2020) and automation (Benzidia et al 2019). It will have far-reaching implications on jobs tasks and profiles and work organisation and environment.…”

The requirements and applications of autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) in hospitals from the perspective of nursing officers

“…The future use of AMR in in-patient care and its merging into an agile and coordinated support service for in-patient care are determined on the one hand by the existing system design and the current levels of burden, and, on the other hand, by the requirements for newly established AMR services [24]. In the medium term, AMR services in in-patient care will play a key role in supportive and cooperative service processes [25]. Not only to deal with the upcoming shortage of skilled workers, but also with regard to the supportive and qualitative interaction of humans and machines.…”