ZAICO Partners with AJIS, the Top Shareholder in Inventory Taking Services, to Reduce Pharmacy Workload and Optimize Inventory via AI and BPO
ZAICO and AJIS collaborate on inventory and stock management solutions for dispensing pharmacies.
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Against the backdrop of a "pharmacy crisis" characterized by a shortage of pharmacists and supply instability centered on generic drugs, ZAICO Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture; CEO: Toshihide Tamura; hereinafter "ZAICO") has begun collaborating with AJIS Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture; CEO: Hisaya Fukuda; hereinafter "AJIS"), the leading provider in the domestic physical inventory BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) market. This partnership aims to build a new inventory management solution specifically for dispensing pharmacies.
By combining AJIS's overwhelming operational capabilities at the field level with ZAICO's inventory management technology utilizing AI and IoT, we will support work-style reforms and improve management efficiency in dispensing pharmacies.
### Background of Collaboration: Three Structural Challenges Facing Dispensing Pharmacies
Busy dispensing pharmacies find it difficult to advance inventory management or promote digital transformation (DX) on their own, facing the following challenges:
* **Field Load and Deteriorating Management Efficiency**: Serious labor shortages, especially in regional and small-to-medium-sized pharmacies, have made after-hours inventory counting by pharmacists common. Combined with rising labor costs and drug price revisions, this is significantly squeezing profit margins.
* **Limits of Inventory Management Due to Supply Instability and Diversification**: With the increasing variety of medications, supply instability, and strict expiration date management, manual tracking at the "single pill level" has reached its limit, resulting in opportunity losses such as stockouts and expired inventory.
* **Urgent Need to Shift from "Products to People"**: While the government promotes a shift toward patient-centered duties (such as medication guidance), the increasing annual burden of inventory management acts as a bottleneck, delaying the establishment of systems that allow pharmacists to focus on actual healthcare.
This collaboration was initiated to solve these issues by combining the latest AI technology with BPO (operational outsourcing by professional staff).
### Overview of Collaboration: A Next-Generation Inventory Solution Innovating Pharmacy Sites with "AI x BPO"
We provide a next-generation inventory taking service that combines ZAICO's AI and IoT technology—which allows for accurate inventory counting without specialized knowledge—with AJIS's proven professional field capabilities.
**ZAICO's Role: Instant Data Conversion Without Specialized Knowledge**
By linking smartphone cameras with IoT weight scales, medication quantities are automatically counted and recorded. No specialized knowledge or skills are required, enabling accurate data conversion in a short time without errors...
By combining AJIS's overwhelming operational capabilities at the field level with ZAICO's inventory management technology utilizing AI and IoT, we will support work-style reforms and improve management efficiency in dispensing pharmacies.
### Background of Collaboration: Three Structural Challenges Facing Dispensing Pharmacies
Busy dispensing pharmacies find it difficult to advance inventory management or promote digital transformation (DX) on their own, facing the following challenges:
* **Field Load and Deteriorating Management Efficiency**: Serious labor shortages, especially in regional and small-to-medium-sized pharmacies, have made after-hours inventory counting by pharmacists common. Combined with rising labor costs and drug price revisions, this is significantly squeezing profit margins.
* **Limits of Inventory Management Due to Supply Instability and Diversification**: With the increasing variety of medications, supply instability, and strict expiration date management, manual tracking at the "single pill level" has reached its limit, resulting in opportunity losses such as stockouts and expired inventory.
* **Urgent Need to Shift from "Products to People"**: While the government promotes a shift toward patient-centered duties (such as medication guidance), the increasing annual burden of inventory management acts as a bottleneck, delaying the establishment of systems that allow pharmacists to focus on actual healthcare.
This collaboration was initiated to solve these issues by combining the latest AI technology with BPO (operational outsourcing by professional staff).
### Overview of Collaboration: A Next-Generation Inventory Solution Innovating Pharmacy Sites with "AI x BPO"
We provide a next-generation inventory taking service that combines ZAICO's AI and IoT technology—which allows for accurate inventory counting without specialized knowledge—with AJIS's proven professional field capabilities.
**ZAICO's Role: Instant Data Conversion Without Specialized Knowledge**
By linking smartphone cameras with IoT weight scales, medication quantities are automatically counted and recorded. No specialized knowledge or skills are required, enabling accurate data conversion in a short time without errors...