How AI and data intelligence can transform India’s medicine supply chain
By Sagar Chauhan, Co-Founder, DocPharma
The race to deliver in 10 to 15 minutes is usually told as a logistics story: more dark stores, faster riders, tighter routes. But the real competition happens before an order is placed, inside the systems that decide what gets stocked, where it sits and when it will be needed. Quick commerce is becoming a business of prediction, and nowhere is that truer than in medicines.
Medicine is different from groceries in ways that no algorithm can wish away. India’s pharma supply chain spans thousands of manufacturers and distributors and a vast network of independent chemists.
On top of that sit requirements no grocery order faces: Schedule H and H1 drugs need a valid prescription and pharmacist oversight, every strip carries a batch and expiry date that demands first-expiry-first-out handling and fast traceability, and products like insulin and vaccines need cold-chain storage. Demand is also...
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