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Long-Term Partnership Between BD Rowa™ and SSI SCHAEFER Extended

19.02.2025

SSI SCHAEFER, one of the world’s leading solution providers for all areas of intralogistics, and BD Rowa, the specialist for pharmaceutical logistics, have decided to continue their successful collaboration. The recently signed follow-up contract extends the partnership, which has been ongoing since 2015, by three years and includes a fixed option for continuation until 2030.

Together, SSI SCHAEFER and BD Rowa provide anadvanced automation solutionfor thehealthcare industry, serving pharmaceutical wholesalers, distributors, and warehouse service providers. Their integrated system combines BD Rowa’s Vmax dispensing robot - which automates receiving, warehouse management, and the picking of slow- and medium-moving pharmaceutical products - with SSI SCHAEFER’s scalable order buffer systems, ensuring high throughput and efficient order fulfillment. BD Rowa’s EasyLoad solution automates storage, enabling full traceability by automatically capturing batch numbers, product identification numbers of medical packaging, and expiration dates to optimize retrieval.

Designed for flexibility, the modular solution can be integrated step by step into all systems and seamlessly connected to SSI SCHAEFER’s WAMAS warehouse management system for centralized planning and control of all logistics operations.

»The fact that we can successfully deliver tailor-made customer solutions for the automation of pharmaceutical logistics has been proven in many joint customer projects. We look forward to continuing our collaboration and will focus on further developing the product and services for our customers in the future,« says Klaus Murko, Vice President of Healthcare & Cosmetics at SSI SCHAEFER.

Dr. Torben Schuettfort, Vice President and member of the management board of BD Rowa adds: »Our customers benefit from high process stability, low costs and low error rates. Moreover, they receive a comprehensive overview of all processes, which they can use to improve processes and fulfill their compliance regulations. The contract extension gives us the opportunity to further expand our joint offering and thus continue to strengthen our customer’s competitiveness in the future.«