What type of warehouse is suitable for storing medicines?

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2025-07-30

Due to the different types, properties, and storage requirements of pharmaceuticals, they are suitable for storage in various types of warehouses. The following are the main types and their characteristics:

 

1. Ordinary Pharmaceutical Warehouse


- Applicable objects: Common prescription and over-the-counter drugs and other general pharmaceuticals.
- Environmental requirements: The temperature is usually maintained between 15-25 degrees Celsius, the relative humidity is controlled between 45%-75%, and good ventilation must be maintained to prevent dampness or deterioration. Management requires regular inventory checks, fire prevention and anti-theft measures, and other basic regulations.
- Functional positioning: This is the most common basic warehouse, suitable for most solid preparations with higher stability (such as tablets and capsules).

 

2. Refrigerated Pharmaceutical Warehouse


- Applicable objects: Biological products sensitive to low temperatures, including vaccines, plasma, insulin, and some injection drugs that require cold chain transportation.
- Technical configuration: Equipped with professional cold chain equipment to ensure a constant temperature range (generally 2-8℃), and a backup power supply and contingency plan are set up to deal with sudden failures. Maintain temperature and humidity stability through a real-time monitoring system.
- Management focus: Highly professional operation, staff must have relevant knowledge and skills, strictly monitor storage conditions to ensure drug activity and safety.

3. Hazardous Pharmaceutical Warehouse


- Applicable objects: Categories with special risk attributes, such as narcotic drugs, psychotropic drugs, medical toxic drugs, radioactive materials, and flammable and explosive chemicals.
- Safety measures: Use anti-theft alarm devices and fire and explosion prevention facilities; implement personnel access restriction system, only allowing trained professionals to access; establish a complete warehousing and inventory record and traceability system.
- Compliance requirements: Follow national special regulations on controlled drugs to ensure that the entire process is controllable.

 

4. Special Pharmaceutical Warehouse


- Sub-scenarios: Designed for photosensitive drugs (requiring light-proof storage), drugs with volatile components (requiring sealed leak prevention), or other varieties with specific needs.
- Customized solutions: Use opaque packaging materials, install dehumidification equipment, or configure an inert gas protection system, adjusting storage parameters according to drug characteristics.

5. Cool Warehouse
- Temperature range: Controlled at 10-20℃, suitable for storing some injections, freeze-dried powder injections, and biological preparations that should not be stored at high temperatures but do not need to be frozen. This type of environment can effectively slow down the degradation rate of drug components.

6. Room Temperature Warehouse
- Applicable scope: Accommodates oral solutions and granule preparations with strong temperature adaptability, allowing a wider fluctuation range (0-30℃), focusing on moisture-proof and pest control management.

7. Automated Automated Warehouse
- Technological advantages: Using automated stacking cranes, automated sorting systems, and intelligent monitoring platforms to achieve efficient access, improve space utilization and operation accuracy, especially suitable for large-scale logistics centers.
- Development trend: With technological advancements, this type of warehouse is gradually becoming an industry upgrade direction, supporting rapid response to market demand and reducing human error.

8. Emergency Pharmaceutical Warehouse
- Strategic significance: To prepare key rescue materials for public health events, emphasizing rapid dispatch capabilities and flexible management models to ensure timely supply in emergencies.

9. Other types classified by function
- Pending inspection warehouse/return warehouse/non-conforming product warehouse: Used for temporary storage of goods awaiting inspection, customer returns, or substandard products to achieve classified control.
- Bonded warehouse: Located in the port area, specializing in handling tariff deferral issues in import and export business, optimizing cross-border trade processes.

 

In actual operation, enterprises will also conduct refined zoning management in combination with GSP certification standards, such as distinguishing between qualified and unqualified product areas according to color codes, and setting up functional modules such as procurement warehouses, wholesale warehouses, and retail warehouses according to circulation links. When choosing a specific warehouse type, factors such as drug characteristics, regulatory compliance, cost-effectiveness, and supply chain efficiency should be considered comprehensively.

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