PHARMACEUTICAL SHELVES

What is a pharmaceutical warehouse shelf?

Pharmaceutical shelves are specialized shelves designed to store, arrange and preserve drugs, medicinal herbs, and medical supplies in the warehouses of pharmacies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, or pharmaceutical distribution centers. Unlike conventional warehouse shelves, pharmaceutical warehouse shelves must meet strict standards for safety, durability, load-bearing capacity, and storage conditions to ensure that product quality is not affected during storage.
These types of shelves are often made of powder-coated steel, stainless steel, or materials that are rust-proof, moisture-proof, and easy to clean. At the same time, the shelves are designed in modules, and the size of the floors can be flexibly adjusted to suit each type of pharmaceutical product, from compact medicine boxes to large cartons.

Reasons to use pharmaceutical warehouse shelves

Pharmaceutical shelves are environments that require strict storage standards to maintain the quality of drugs and medical equipment. Equipping specialized shelves not only supports effective management but also limits risks during storage, while improving warehouse productivity. Some outstanding benefits when using pharmaceutical warehouse shelves:

• Maximize space: The shelf system allows for scientific arrangement of drugs, exploiting space according to height and limiting waste of empty space.
• Ensure storage conditions: Drugs are clearly classified, avoiding direct contact with humidity, light or temperature that affects quality.
• Convenient control of goods: Supports tracking of expiration dates, quick traceability, limiting the loss or storage of expired drugs.
• Increase work processing speed: Helps employees search, retrieve goods and arrange them faster, minimizing errors in warehouse import and export.
• Meet pharmaceutical industry standards: The shelf system meets GSP and GDP regulations, ensuring warehouse operations are up to standard and minimizing legal risks.
• Protect goods: Keep drugs and medical devices in intact condition, without deformation or damage before distributing to the market.

Quality pharmaceutical warehouse shelves

In the pharmaceutical industry, choosing the right type of shelf not only helps to preserve drugs and medical supplies according to standards, but also improves management efficiency, inventory control and optimizes the usable area. Below are popular warehouse shelf models that are widely used in pharmaceutical shelves:

1. V-hole shelves for drug warehouses

V-hole shelves are a familiar choice in hospital, clinic or pharmacy drug warehouses thanks to their compact design and easy installation. Each shelf level has a load capacity of about 100kg, suitable for light items or not too large quantities. With flexible size, this type of shelf is especially optimal for small warehouse spaces, easy to arrange in narrow corners, helping the warehouse to be neat and meet storage standards.
Import and export of drugs on V-hole shelves is also very simple. Staff can quickly find and retrieve goods without much manipulation, limiting the risk of breakage, ensuring the safety of goods.

2. Medium-duty shelves for storing drugs and medical supplies

Medium-duty shelves are often used in pharmaceutical distribution warehouses thanks to their good load-bearing capacity, from 200 - 700kg per floor. This is an ideal choice for storing large quantities of medicine boxes or some accompanying medical equipment.
The shelves can be arranged in multiple floors, allowing goods to be arranged by category, expiry date or batch, making the warehouse management process more scientific. In addition, the ability to adjust the distance between floors and the height of the shelves up to 5m helps optimize the area, suitable for many types of products from small boxes to bulky packages.

3. Selective shelves for large-scale pharmaceutical warehouses

Selective shelves belong to the group of heavy-duty shelves, with a load capacity of up to 3,000kg/floor and a maximum height of 10m. This is a storage solution for large pharmaceutical warehouses, allowing direct access to each pallet without being limited by the FIFO or LIFO import and export principles.
The outstanding feature of this type of shelf is its flexibility, helping businesses reduce congestion in the warehouse, while easily monitoring the expiry date and quantity of inventory, avoiding the situation of drugs being stored for too long.

4. Double Deep shelves for drug storage

Also belonging to the heavy-duty shelf line, Double Deep shelves allow storage according to both FIFO (first in - first out) and LIFO (last in - first out) principles. This helps the pharmaceutical warehouse to be more flexible in rotation, while also controlling the expiry date well to limit prolonged inventory.
The biggest advantage of Double Deep is saving floor space by reducing the number of aisles by half compared to Selective shelves, thereby increasing storage density. This is a suitable choice for pharmaceutical warehouses with large storage needs but still requiring flexibility in management.

5. Mezzanine mezzanine shelves in pharmaceutical warehouses

Mezzanine mezzanine shelves help maximize the height of the warehouse, creating more storage space without having to expand the floor area. With a multi-storey design, the lower area can be used as a place to store medicine shelves, while the upper floor is a space for operations, inventory or packaging.
In addition to the storage function, this shelf system can also be arranged into a management office, a quality control area or a special storage area. Thanks to its sturdy structure with a load capacity of 300 - 1000kg/m², the floor shelf ensures safety and meets the strict standards of the pharmaceutical industry.

6. Radio Shuttle Shelves

Radio Shuttle Shelves are a modern automation solution, suitable for pharmaceutical warehouses that require high import and export speed. The shuttle system moves on rails to reduce manual labor, increase productivity and accuracy in warehouse management.
In particular, this type of shelf helps increase storage density by reducing aisle area, suitable for warehouses with limited space but need to store large volumes of goods. This is the optimal choice for pharmaceutical businesses that want to convert to a smart warehouse model.

GSP pharmaceutical warehouse shelf design standards

Currently, drug and pharmaceutical warehouses are required to comply with GSP (Good Storage Practices) standards. This is an important set of principles that regulates the storage, transportation and distribution stages, in order to ensure the quality of finished drugs when they reach users. Specifically:

• Regarding the location of the GSP warehouse: The pharmaceutical warehouse must be located in a fixed location, with a convenient traffic system to support the transportation, import and export of goods and serve fire prevention and fighting work. The warehouse shelf area must be high, safe, and have a complete drainage system to avoid the impact of heavy rain, floods or groundwater affecting drugs and raw materials.
• Regarding the area of ​​the GSP warehouse: The warehouse must ensure a large enough area, suitable for the scale of operation to easily arrange functional areas such as: receiving goods, quarantining, quality control, preservation, packaging and delivery.
• Regarding the design and construction of GSP warehouses: The shelf system in the warehouse is scientifically designed to protect drugs and raw materials from adverse environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, dust, and insects. At the same time, this design must also ensure that the quality of pharmaceuticals is not reduced during the storage process.
• Regarding storage conditions: Temperature levels must be strictly maintained for each type of warehouse:
• Cold storage: not exceeding 8°C.
• Refrigerator: from 2 - 8°C.
• Frozen storage: about -10°C.
• Cool storage: from 8 - 15°C.
• Room temperature storage: maintained between 15 - 25°C.

Reference: Warehouse shelf models suitable for logistics warehouses

INPA - The leading prestigious unit in designing and constructing pharmaceutical warehouse shelves

INPA is proud to be a brand specializing in designing and constructing standard pharmaceutical warehouse shelves, trusted and chosen by many hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and large and small pharmacies nationwide. INPA's warehouse shelves not only meet all strict standards in pharmaceutical storage but also possess many outstanding advantages:

• High-quality materials, outstanding durability: Shelves are made from imported iron and steel, treated with modern electrostatic painting technology, helping to prevent rust, termites, peeling, ensuring absolute safety when storing drugs, medicinal herbs and medical products.
• Adaptable to a variety of environments: Effectively used in many temperature conditions such as normal warehouses, cool warehouses or cold warehouses, maintaining stable pharmaceutical quality.
• Optimizing space and management: Shelves are designed to help arrange neatly, easy to classify, convenient for import - export, inventory and management of goods.
• 100% standard quality: Products have high load capacity, long-term durability, diverse designs, suitable for many different storage needs.
• Flexible structure: Easy to disassemble, expand and adjust to meet many types of goods with different sizes.
• Competitive price - good after-sales policy: INPA directly manufactures and distributes, thereby ensuring the best price with many attractive incentives, reputable and long-term warranty.

With extensive experience and commitment to quality, INPA is a trusted address for all pharmaceutical businesses looking for optimal and sustainable storage solutions. It can be seen that choosing the right type of standard pharmaceutical shelves not only helps optimize warehouse space but also ensures the quality and safety of products throughout the storage and distribution process. Depending on the scale of the warehouse and the characteristics of the goods, businesses can consider applying each type of shelf appropriately to achieve the highest management efficiency. With modern and scientific storage solutions, standard pharmaceutical shelves will certainly be a powerful tool to support businesses in building a professional, safe and sustainable warehouse system.